Recent magazine features
Not The Me Show; Kit Barber’s Management Style
At a youthful 40 years old, Kit Barber is the driving force behind a multi-million pound empire spanning photography, fitness, financial consultancy and property, providing livelihoods for around 40 people throughout the Midlands. Not that he is one to boast about his serial achievements. “It’s the good people I have got around me – it is not the me show, it is the everybody else show. It is all...
A 21st Century Hi-Tech Mission
Linda Smith pulls few punches as she reflects on her career – and life – to date. “I am this girl from a rural background, little old me, from Worcestershire – it is fantastic that I have had these opportunities, and survived cancer twice.” She talks of the encounters with cancer – of which more later – in much the same matter of fact manner as she considers her still embryonic role as founder...
The Career Path of a Property Professional
Ben Davidson has carved out quite a niche for himself in the highly competitive West Midlands property sector – but his career path could have been very different... “I wanted to be a professional footballer. I was good enough to be signed by West Brom when I was 11,” says the Redditch-born managing director of Birmingham-based Davidson Estates. “I had played from the age of four. I was centre...
A brand new route to market
Former headteacher turned business entrepreneur Julia Williams has long been one of the 'faces' of the Midlands business community – and now she is the human face of an exciting new marketing venture in the region, ADD Marketing Ltd. Julia has chaired Worcestershire Ambassadors, co-founded Wonderful Worcestershire Women and was Executive Producer of Strictly Worcestershire – while also owning a...
Tracking the Data Landscape
Gary O’Reilly is highly engaging company, a straight-talking Northern Irishman with a penchant for pithy turns of phrase – and colourful quotes..... “I didn’t get it easy, I worked hard to get where I am.....I will talk to a £2,000 a day QC in the same way that I would talk to a colleague on the building site..... “I wanted to work for myself. I do not like working for others. I hate being told...