Clear feedback, trusted support, invaluable guidance
In today’s world, business has never been more challenging. To stay ahead, directors and boards must perform at the very highest level, seeking continuous development and positive change. In short, businesses need to build partnerships that can help them get ahead – and stay there.
That’s where we come in.
At J M Business Advisors, we work with businesses across the United Kingdom, offering solid support and mentoring to help companies prepare successfully for advancement; seeing challenges as an opportunity to evolve, flourish and grow, and delivering the kind of value that empowers both teams and individuals to perform at the highest possible level.
What we are: an easily accessible, eminently knowledgeable external resource, trusted by businesses to provide clear feedback, opinion, guidance and invaluable support. What we provide: all the benefits of a non-executive director but with greater resources and the advantage of being able to tailor our offering to be task or results specific.
Guiding all we do: the assurance of complete discretion and trust, undertaking specialist confidential assignments and acting at all times with complete professionalism, without judgement or opinion.
From strength to strength
An independent private business specialising in the development of directors and the boards they work with, J M Business Advisors will help you target and develop specific parts of your business. What makes us different: real hands on experience, allied with a passion about the difference we can make and the tangible value we can add to your enterprise.
Absolute confidentiality is the cornerstone of our success – and yours. An advisor who will deliver consistent honest feedback: whatever the challenge, whatever the goal.
Our Services
Confidential assignments▼
Confidential assignments
At J M Business Advisors, we act as a trusted external advisor enabling specific objectives to be achieved out of the normal day-to-day business activity. From fast track director development in preparation for promotion and boardroom change, to business security… from detailed strategic business reviews, to acquisition planning and disposal. When it needs to be carried out with absolute discretion and total empathy, look no further than us.
Business and strategy advisor
To enable clear and reasoned strategy, it’s vital to have a business advisor that understands your objectives, whilst still being able to challenge and stimulate discussion. Strategy is often constrained by the operational needs of the business and its stakeholders. Using JMBA to assist with keeping planning and discussion at a strategic level gives you a virtual non-executive advisor, bringing a degree of balance and experience that’s invaluable – particularly when a board is approaching a strategic shift or structural change.
Board development
No matter the industry or organisation, all boards are tasked with leadership, governance and operational responsibility. When a board has trust in itself, the performance can be dramatic. However, the toughest trading environments and challenges often put tremendous strain on a board – how it works and how effective it can be in any given situation. Unity and feeling of trust and dependability on one’s colleagues can be effective in facing these situations head on, and at JMBA, we can help develop teamwork as well as accountability to one another… accelerating the entire board’s performance and effectiveness in the process.
Director mentoring
Often, Directors have the challenge of balancing operational responsibility, maintaining an inner resilience and professional development. Skills acquired during their career can be complemented with a programme of mentoring and, in some instances, coaching. What we offer: a ‘safe’ sounding board to talk to openly and honestly; understanding the importance of having an input that is beyond the immediate areas of responsibility, to add value and depth to the business.
Conflict resolution
When a situation threatens the structure or integrity of a business, it's time to act quickly. The first step: engaging with a third party to meet all involved and quickly understand the issues at stake. At JMBA, we’ll seek to work from a defined classification of success that all elements agree to. By working backwards from this position, emotion and facts can be untangled ahead of meaningful resolutions being put in place. It’s also vital that the catalyst for the conflict is also clearly understood. We find the motivations and opportunities of individuals are always different and each situation will be approached with an impartial open mind and, vitally, without judgement.
Sprint business audit
Carrying out a ‘pulse check’ across the business and rapidly appraising each area of activity (along with staff opinion) gives the board clear information to act upon. However, getting real feeling and opinion from stakeholders, directors and staff can be very difficult if it's being gathered by an internal team such as HR. Choose JMBA and our Sprint audit will test attitudes and aptitudes, along with opinion about any recent change of plans. By using a simple process, fact can be delivered by a concise report to the board or stakeholders by an advisor that has no bias or influence, ahead of major change or in preparation for a strategic shift.
Marketing / Brand Audit
Marketing can often be an afterthought, which means many growth businesses quickly end up with an array of collateral and messages that neither look or sound alike. It can not only be costly to produce these differing messages across multiple media, it can also have a very negative impact on the brand. A brand audit to review all of your collateral both online and offline is the best place to start to identify where there is room for improvement.
Through this service we aim to help you both align your messages and avoid wastage. We will provide a report on our findings with some useful pointers for you to take action, start saving money and ensure your brand’s values are being communicated.
Marketing Strategy
You may know who you are and what you do but how frequently do you ask yourselves 'Why?' Whether starting a new business, rebranding an old one, launching a new product or targeting a new market, a well thought-out strategy is at the heart of everything we do; a good marketing strategy considers where the business is and where it wants to be, and ensures the message that sits between the two is fully aligned.
Businesses can no longer ignore the power of digital marketing – it is vitally important to your people, your customers and your suppliers, and a well thought-out strategy will help you engage with the best. We work alongside management teams and their marketing departments to review and align the marketing strategy with the business strategy.
Whether you’re looking to harness the power of a digital comms plan or just enhance what you’re already doing we can work with your key people to coordinate a robust and highly focussed strategy to cut through all channels. We can also take the whole process off your hands, leaving you to focus on what you're great at.
History
J M Business advisors was set up in 2016 by Justin Bass. Justin identified areas that, during his career, he needed assistance with – as well as specific areas that had allowed him to accelerate and shape teams and boards he was working alongside. Justin is still very passionate about the strength of a team performing at its peak and believes passionately that seeing a business take significant steps in its growth can in most instances be attributed to the strength of the board. Managing director of a PLC business at age 35, Justin has continued working at this level and now holds several non-executive positions alongside his work at JMBA. The business has experience across many sectors and industries, with its foundation based on finding and working with the very best… and never forgetting first and foremost, that it’s always about the people.
Contact
In our opinion nothing can replace a face to face meeting. We are always happy to meet with you. Our business is based on complete confidentiality.
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