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Private advisory groups for MDs, executives and business owners.

Vistage International (UK) Limited, Vanbrugh House, Grange Drive, Hedge End, Hampshire, SO30 2AF | Company Registration No. 2341022 Tel: +44 (0) 1489 770200 | Email: enquiries@vistage.co.uk | Web: www.vistage.co.uk

What is Vistage

Simon Walsh – Vistage Chair Group V353

Since 1957, Vistage has been improving the effectiveness and enhancing the lives of business leaders by bringing together successful MDs, CEOs, executives and business owners into private advisory groups.

In a Vistage group, about a dozen executives meet regularly to discuss their challenges, evaluate opportunities and solve an assortment of strategic, operational and sometimes personal issues.

Put twelve or so high performing business executives in a room and the potential is enormous. The role of a Vistage Chair is to ensure that every bit of experience and wisdom is applied in each Vistage meeting. Our Chairs are accomplished leaders (many are former MDs or CEOs). They are part facilitator, part coach and are committed to the success of their group members.

To maintain the momentum that group meetings provide, Vistage members are also supported by one to one coaching, access to leading expert speakers, bespoke best practice materials and an online community of over 21,000 members worldwide.

To find out why Vistage works and enables business leaders like you to get answers and take action, contact us today.

We enhance the lives of CEOs and MDs of larger SME businesses.

Created for passionate executives running SME businesses who want to tackle their issues and improve both their business results and their own leadership skills. This programme brings together business leaders from a diverse range of non-competing industries to solve problems, develop more effective strategies and explore new opportunities.

Whatever your obstacle – it could be anything from managing business growth, maintaining competitive advantage, or even making a difference to your work/life balance; your Vistage CE Group will help you to identify and implement new solutions.

Since joining Vistage I’ve developed more as a leader and as a person then I have done in the previous ten years combined.”“

Adrian WelchSales Director at Techo UK

MDs AND CEOsHow Can You Keep Your Company Moving Forward?

Open to executives running larger SME businesses, this programme brings together business leaders from a diverse range of non-competing industries to solve problems, develop strategies and keep moving forward.

SMALL BUSINESS OWNERSHow can you rise above everyday operations and focus on the future?

Join other small business leaders who share your goals and challenges, to tackle obstacles, develop innovative strategies and actively move your business forward.

DIRECTORS AND MANAGERSAs a top Executive, how can you bring more to the table?

Designed for key executives, this programme helps you develop the skills and confidence to take initiative, help your MD/CEO overcome challenges, and start thinking and acting like an MD yourself.

CHAIRS AND GROUPS In our groups, about a dozen executives meet once a month to solve problems, evaluate opportunities and work on an assortment of strategic and operational issues

MY VISTAGE Our online community, My Vistage, enables members to connect between group meetings, tap into the broader international Vistage community and access bespoke best practice materials.

VISTAGE EVENTS Vistage events are focused on ensuring that delegates get actionable takeaway value, not just information, which can be used immediately to keep their companies moving forward.

EXPERT SPEAKERS Engage and gain valuable insight from expert, Vistage accredited speakers in a small group setting.

BEST BUSINESS COACHES Each month you and your Chair will have a private, one to one session designed to help you identify your most important needs and opportunities.

Vistage group types

What we offer

With 30 years’ corporate experience, a strong entrepreneurial streak and a habit of delivering exceptional growth, Simon now focuses his time on helping other business leaders make the improvements and changes they seek.

Simon has held senior management positions for over 20 years. He has built his skills and experience within diverse sectors spanning Financial Services, Business Services, Telecoms and Consumer Electronics, working within world class organisations such as Prudential, Lloyds Bank Group, Orange and Samsung. Simon has lead large, diverse, multi-functional teams, launching new businesses and product categories and delivering outstanding growth levels and brand value.

Early in his career he started his own contract cleaning business, built a strong blue chip client base and, after three years, sold it as a thriving business. There he learned the hard way what it is really like to run your own business and how lonely it can be at the top!

He has said that had he known about Vistage then, he would have definitely joined.

With expertise in both B2B and B2C channels, Simon played an important role in the growth of both the Orange and Samsung brands in the UK having joined both very early in their UK corporate lives, thriving on the small business mentality and building the business he was responsible for, to a turnover of over £1bn pa.

More recently, Simon launched a profitable new retail business, helped bring smartphone leasing to the UK and has provided transformational consultancy services to a number of UK businesses.

Simon is married and has three children. He is a keen photographer, a school governor and Junior Rugby coach at Winchester RFC. He loves to learn new skills, believes anything is achievable once one decides to do it and loves spending time with family and friends, watching sport and listening to and playing music.

Your Vistage Group Chairman

Simon Walsh

Group V353 – Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire

Mob: +44 (0) 7788 978298 E-mail: simon.walsh@vistagechair.co.uk 57 Romsey Road, Winchester Hampshire, SO22 5DE

https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonwalsh1 www.vistage.co.uk/simon-walsh

Vistage UK Vanbrugh House, Grange Drive, Hedge End, Hampshire, SO30 2AF

Tel: +44 (0) 1489 770200 www.vistage.co.uk

I have been a Vistage speaker for five years and always felt I was missing out. When I decided to join Vistage as a member, I couldn’t have known or imagined just how much I would get out of it.

Jo HaighVistage member

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