PROFILE AND TESTIMONIALS.
Meet our Chairman and Managing Director.
Ashley Lawrence. Chairman   Steve Jones. Managing Director
Ashley Lawrence

Over the last thirty years, Ashley has built up and sold four businesses. As well as being co-founder of Skills for business LLP, he currently ownes and runs a very successful personal and executive coaching business Aquachain Ltd. He is a highly motivated individual, naturally enthusiastic with a real passion for life. He is totally dedicated and passionate about coaching his clients towards an extraordinary life.

He is totally committed to the Coaching philosophy and is a graduate of The Coaching Academy, also of the Masterclass of Corporate Coaching from The Coaching Academy. He is an NLP Practitioner, Master Practitioner and NLP Trainer Trainer and was trained by some of the leading trainers in NLP including John Seymore, Paul McKenna, Michael Neil, and the creator of NLP Dr Richard Bandler.

He has a wealth of experience in every aspect of business, and specialises in Leadership Skills Coaching. Ashley helps all of his clients become the best they can be.

Ashley also achieved the ultimate goal for a sportsman, by playing for his country and furthermore won a Silver Medal in the Indoor Cricket World Championships!! He plays for, coaches and manages the England Indoor Cricket teams, and is the current Chairman of the England Indoor Cricket Association. (EICA)

He is an accomplished public speaker and holds monthly training courses in Presentation and Sales skills.

Most importantly Ashley is a genuine, honest and direct person. His life skills and experiences allow him to fully empathise with his clients on every level.

Ashley insists that all of Skills for Business coaches are totally Open, Honest and Fair. So if you really want to shift your life into the extraordinary contact us now, and one of our qualified coaches will help you change your life for ever.

If you are fed up with an ordinary life, and would like an extraordinary coach to move you towards and extraordinary life, then contact us now!!!

 
Steve Jones

Steve Jones has spent a lifetime working in the field of performance. With over 20 years in the Health & Fitness Industry where performance of business, teams and individuals was as important as the performance of gym members. With over 12 individual coaching awards and disciplines in a variety of sports Steve soon learnt how to motivate and improve people of all ages and abilities.

Steve was quick to spot how these skills were transferable to the business world where Steve rose to senior management positions working in the early days to help grow Health and Fitness in the public sector before running his own gym business. It wasn’t long before Steve was snapped up by Cyanamid UK to run their corporate gym where his work led to national recognition in the form of ‘Wellness Award’ for marketing and creating awareness of the benefits to business of corporate gyms.

This in turn led to Steve working with GlaxoWellcome where Steve was involved in the change of their working men’s clubs to health and fitness centres. On completion of his contract Steve moved back South as Business Development Manager for a little known company called ‘Future Fit’ who thanks to Steve’s efforts are now a market leader in training provision to the Health & Fitness industry.

Shortly after completing his work at Future Fit, Steve joined the management team of Fitness First Plc. During his time with Fitness First Plc they expanded rapidly growing from 13 clubs to 300+ in seven years whilst going through the AIM listing and taking the FTSE by storm to become the largest independent health club chain in Europe and third largest in the World.

It was not long before Steve was approached by Shirlaws Business Coaching – a global provider of coaching to owner managed businesses – where Steve contributed to their growth in the UK, whilst also honing and improving his coaching skills and knowledge. Two and a half years later Steve deciding to develop his own brand of coaching based on his own unique skills and knowledge to give birth to Performant Business Coaching.

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Testimonials.


"Thank you so much for your commitment to my/our future Ashley. You are a very special man who is an absolute stand for making a profound difference to people’s lives and businesses. I know because it is happening in mine already". (AGW CEO of Recruitment company.)

 

I heard about Steve through some friends of mine who had used his services. At the time we engaged Steve’s services our industry was about to go through some changes that were outside our control and I recognised that we may need to do something. Steve’s coaching was instrumental is enabling us to redefine our business, create a new position in the market place and most importantly communicate that with a very simple message. To date we have not looked back. Thanks Steve for all your help!

SLH

Southern Learning Hub

CEO: Denise Candy

www.southernlearninghub.co.uk

 

"I have been working with Skills for Business for the last 6 months and have, with their help and guidance, carried out a complete review of my group of companies.
The old saying "You can be too close to something to actually see it" has been very appropriate!! Working with Skills for Business I have identified sectors of my business that were utilising a huge amount of management time and yet producing very little and some of these activities have already been discontinued.
We have identified the areas of business that are potentially the most profitable and will now have more time to develop these to a much greater extent.
I am aware that many of you often complain about the lack of enthusiasm and drive shown by some of your staff. We too suffered from this problem and failure to achieve targets, normally was never their fault! Thus a blame culture had come about and individuals were failing to accept responsibility for their own lack of achievement. My managers have all been given personal coaching and I can already report dramitic changes from them.
I urge you all to seriously consider this chance to take a fresh look at what you have and where you want to be. For me it has provided a new vigour and determination to move forward and make xxxxxx a company that I can be truly proud of." (CEO of a major tyre and exhaust chain.)

 

At the end of 2002 I had completed the New York Marathon; organised a Charity Ball and raised £8000; travelled to Hong Kong and gained the job of editing the Company Magazine. Steve Jones contribution to these achievements cannot be underestimated. He kept me focussed and organised.

The Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Ltd

The Liverpool Daily Post Echo Ltd

Editor:Jane Gallagher

 

"Ashley has taken me and my business from £24,000 per month turnover to £85,000 per month in just 14 months. His energy and knowledge of business is second to none. Being the owner of a business, can be the loneliest place in the world, and Ashley gave me support as I needed it. If you have got to the point where you can see that your business has to change, and you don't know how to do it? Ashley and his team of coaches are the men (and women) for the job. His Leadership programe is fantastic and I would thoroughly recommend it to all growing businesses and others that have staffing issues." (CEO of a web design and hosting company.)

 

We have been in business for over 20 years with an established clientele including several ‘blue chip’ companies. We have always prided ourselves on never losing a client through any fault of our own. Before I met Steve, a business coach is something that neither heard of , understood or would consider. Now I cannot see how I would have managed without his services. He has brought clarity where there was none.

Headline Printers

Headline Printers

Director:Dave Barraclough

www.headlineprinters.co.uk

"I would like to share with you the overwhelming gratitude I feel, for all your invaluable guidance help and support. I find the difference's in myself unbelievable, when I look back 3 months. I have lost the inner conflict and gained happiness security and inner peace. I am no longer blocked by negative thinking but motivated by positive belief's. You have helped me understand my own thought's, enabled me to recognise and achieve my soul's desire's. The changes with-in myself are so profound it's impossible for people to observe anything but my positive attitude towards life in every aspect. Thankyou." (LA.Housewife and Owner of Internet Business.)

 

Steve acted as a business coach for our firm for a period of 6 months. In this time he developed a good understanding of our business, it’s needs, weak areas and a good assessment of the staff overall. Steve is very approachable, clear thinking and sets out his ideas and perceptions of business in detail and in a manner that can be actioned. Steve work with us has been an asset to the business and has helped us to develop certain procedures which has saved us a substantial amount of time and especially allowed myself being a partner of the business to spend more time with existing clients and more importantly looking for new clients Steve therefore comes very highly recommended by us.

Barter Durgan

Barter Durgan

Chartered Accountant: Keith Green

www.barterdm.co.uk

 

".. Ashley has not only shown me my true potential, but enabled me to embrace it and use it to full advantage. A person that I knew I always was had been concealed by negativity, doubt and lack of inner confidence. I have been shown how to live for now, live with purpose, learn from my many mistakes and change the present into what I always dreamt it to be! Thankyou.."(JB. Senior Manager for A Government

Initiative Scheme.)

 

Over the last few months I have completely refocused the way I run my business. This would not have happened had I not had the opportunity to work with you. Thanks for al your support and help!

Positive Vibes

Positive Vibes

Adrian Webb


"Ashley, just a short note to say thanks. Your ability to make me realise what I already know and then turning that information into solutions, has helped my business immeasurably. Not just in bottom line profit but also in the staff and customer satisfaction levels. I would (and do) recommend you to any business."(Proprietor of a Garage, MOT and Service centre.)

 

After just four sessions with Steve I managed to completely restructure my routines and have achieved much more than I would have ever considered possible. I now have a far more concise and focussed approach to my daily business and personal life.

Total Fleet Management

Total fleet management

Director:NJ Barnett

 

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