How to proactively avert a crisis 2015 and beyond: “The counter-intuitive lessons taken from the front line: 25 turnaround War Stories 2006 – 2015“

Introduction: What would you do if you were invited to sort out a small business that has consistently haemorrhaged £400,000 cash for the last few months, and there is a meeting with the bank in the morning?  Learn how we got the business back to profit in 2 weeks.

The session speaker: Tom Pickering is a CEO with decades of business experience and he will share with you his experiences of dealing with such difficult situations in a turnaround situation. He will also talk about what it takes to be a leader in a crisis situation.

What you will take away: some pragmatic insights into a different solution to the turnaround challenge

  • How to implement a turnaround at speed
  • Create an environment that immediately opens and implements business options
  • Understand the leadership blind spots fostered during the good years pre 2006
  • Appreciate why Traditional leadership is NOW not enough
  • The top 6 things we as leaders never do
  • The underlying factors that underpin the solution to the mid-market growth challenge
  • The importance of experiential learning to transform capability and leave an enduring legacy in the business
  • Why commercially focussed engineers make the best turnaround guys

Biography: Thomas Pickering BA (Hons) FIET cut his teeth at Lucas Automotive and reached his career goal becoming a plc director at 28. As CEO he has led 30 turnarounds in the last 13 years. He has formed, trained and led one of the largest independent teams of turnaround professionals and created some bespoke methodology to realise results much faster, because he has had to. He is comfortable at engaging in special situations, and transforming thinking as a means to transform profits. The approach has been proven in both the most successful and/or challenged businesses, including leading a Cranfield Award Winning Business. Thomas is CEO of www.winningthinking.uk. Icebreaker was voted 2015’s Global Turnaround and Restructuring Firm of the Year.