We advise and mentor
ambitious business owners
and leaders.
Learn from our experience -
successes and failures.
Business Development
We are all potentially better
than we think.
There are no deep secrets — just hard thinking, planning, preparation and real action with loads of common sense. Luck helps too, plus being ready to receive it when it knocks on your door. We can help you 80% of the way, the final balance is up to you.
Business Strategy
It’s relatively simple to write where you want to get to and then produce a set of realistic numbers.
The heavy lifting is developing, testing and implementing a successful strategy, plus constantly watching the marketplace dynamics, especially your competitors.
Our highly experienced team can help you get it right from the off.
Executive Mentoring
Most business veterans agree that whilst we try to learn from our mistakes it could have been easier and less costly to have not made them in the first place.
Good mentors cover a myriad of subjects and proffer their experience to your issues. They’ve garnered loads of t-shirts,some made with horse hair, others of finest cotton - they’re all mighty useful.
Non-executive Director
Challenging, questioning and probing, the best non-executives add real value to the businesses they’re working for.
Bringing outside experience of other businesses past and present to your board room table can be the best hire you’ve ever made. Oh yes, part of their role is saying ‘no, think again please’. All of our wider team have been on boards and brought real value to the table.
Marketing Communications
Arguably, the marketing landscape has never been so difficult to navigate.
Means of communication constantly evolve, channels emerge, morph and disappear plus costs get ever harder to control. It's more essential than ever to get the fundamentals right and constantly tweak the tiller to keep to the best course for the desired outcome. Our experts have been in the thick of it, on both sides of the desk, for countless years.
Consultancy
One reason why outside consultants thrive is because their exposure to multiple disciplines enables transference of good, and possibly great, thinking across boundaries.
Yes, we have specialists with great depth of experience -- whilst niche, big picture exposure has broadened their toolkits. Please don’t ask us to change a punctured tyre at midnight in the snow on the M4, although we do know someone who can and will.
Client testimonials
"We met Iain via Zoom during Covid. He has since become our quarterly Chairman and advisor across many and varied matters. Of note he and his associates have spearheaded our corporate planning and expansion into new areas, notably ‘FELSA’ our Public Services offering."
Paul Strike
Joint Founder & CEO
FOURTH ELEMENT
"Iain was appointed to chair our family business across its two operating arenas - haulage and bakery. The former had 50 ‘Tapa 1’ secure vehicles, the latter from scratch built up a £1m revenue stream and huge local client base. Both prospered and enabled the owners and family members to retire years earlier than planned. Iain’s advice, leadership and contacts were invaluable throughout!"
Mark Priestley, Founder & Leader
PRIESTLEY
"For several years Iain has been an exemplary sounding board for marketing concepts, ideas and when needed corporate development. He has referred expert associates in various disciplines: legal, marketing, recruitment and PR. They have all proved to be exemplary and value for money."
Philip Porter
Founder, Author & CEO
PORTER PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Sanderson have long worked with arguably the UK’s top grant securement expert for SMEs, primarily but not exclusively in the manufacturing and engineering sector.
“Iain and his associates have been a major source of both advice and business opportunities for Markel for over 15 years. In a business where much time can be wasted his lead and referrals have been a major factor in our growth."
Simon Day, CEO
"Iain’s advice and contacts have been incredibly useful as we’ve navigated our way through post Covid waters. Being based in Devon, to have a London contact who also understands our working environment is beyond useful for me."
Graham Lawton
Founder, CEO & ultra fast boat creator
BLS MARINE
"I was placed by Iain in 2008 to take a new marcoms agency from zero to hero. It's now a leading component in a global business of which I am Group CEO.
I have kept in close and regular contact with him and his closest network of acclaimed associates, one in particular truly instrumental in our success. Iain’s advice, both structured and ad hoc, has been of immense benefit to my and the group’s progress."
Global Group CEO
(ANNUAL REVENUES NOW £150m PLUS)
"Iain’s advice and contact base has been incredibly useful to BLS as we’ve navigated our way through post Covid waters. Being based in Devon, to have a London contact who also understands our working environment is beyond useful for me."
Graham Lawton
Founder, CEO & ultra fast boat creator
BLS MARINE
Sanderson & Associates have long worked with arguably the UK’s top grant securement expert for SMEs, primarily but not exclusively in the manufacturing and engineering sector.
“Iain and his associates have been a major source of both advice and business opportunities for Markel for over 15 years. In a business where much time can be wasted his lead and referrals have been a major factor in our growth."
Simon Day, CEO
"I was placed by Iain in 2008 to take a new marcoms agency from zero to hero. It's now a leading component in a global business of which I am Group CEO.
I have kept in close and regular contact with him and his closest network of acclaimed associates, one in particular truly instrumental in our success. Iain’s advice, both structured and ad hoc, has been of immense benefit to my and the group’s progress."
Global Group CEO
(ANNUAL REVENUES NOW £150m PLUS)
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