Ian Price
CHAIR FOR SOUTH DOWNS & SOLENT REGION
ABOUT
The South Downs & Solent Academy for Chief Executives Group provides the opportunity to unlock the potential of business leaders in and around Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester and Chichester.
The group currently comprises a diverse group of members who lead business’s ranging from construction, professional services, manufacturing, technology development to food processing, premier league football and marine engineering.
We welcome new members looking to be inspired to take their business to the next level, to realize their full potential and who want to make a contribution to their own and the personal development of others.
Meet Paula Reid
Paula Reid is the newly appointed Chair for the South Downs and Solent area. In this video she shares with us her beliefs and vision for unlocking the potential of her new group.
Are you successfully leading in your organisation? With Ian Price
In our Leading Success series Ian Price, CEO of the Academy for Chief Executives share his Top 3 tips for staying at the top of your game.
5 ways to make communication the key to your success
As leaders we all know communication is the most vital skill to have in any workplace. However, if not used effectively our communication skills, or lack of, can play a pivotal role in under-performing. Whether it’s losing our staff, our clients, or our motivation, what we say and how we say it will often determine our success
Two lessons on how to gain referral business
It has been proven time and time again that once you are referred to someone, you are 90% on the way to closing the business - unless you turn up with three heads of course!
Running the family business
Having the opportunity to run a family business is often a great privilege but also be fraught with problems. Here are our ten tips to help you out.
The Future CEO - Raconteur report
With the current geopolitical uncertainty and ongoing digital disruption, the role of the CEO is inevitably changing. This report explores the development of the role, and the requisite skills and qualities for an effcient future CEO.
Upcoming events
Accelerating the increase in the equity value of your business with Phil Ives - Southampton (19 April 2018)
An opportunity to experience the Academy at an inspirational day at the De Vere New Place Hotel, Southampton on Thursday 19th April from 08:00 to 16:30 with Phil Ives and where you will engage in a peer group board session with other leaders like yourself. There is also the opportunity to meet other successful CEOs like you who are wrestling with similar challenges. Find out how you can share and learn from them and come away with some answers. To experience the peer group first-hand and what it delivers, attendees come along with a genuine business challenge and see how a variety of opinions, experiences and different perspectives can really impact on your decision making, direction and growth.
Transactional Analysis with John Perry - Southampton (17 May 2018)
An opportunity to experience the Academy at an inspirational day at the De Vere New Place Hotel, Southampton on Thursday 17th May from 08:00 to 16:30 with John Perry and where you will engage in a peer group board session with other leaders like yourself. There is also the opportunity to meet other successful CEOs like you who are wrestling with similar challenges. Find out how you can share and learn from them and come away with some answers. To experience the peer group first-hand and what it delivers, attendees come along with a genuine business challenge and see how a variety of opinions, experiences and different perspectives can really impact on your decision making, direction and growth.
The Academy has been a fantastic forum for me to discuss challenges that are unique to my business with likeminded people
Spending time with rational minds on the sometimes-irrational world of product, people and process helps keep focus on the essential areas of running a business
The Academy has helped develop my confidence to deal with challenges as they arise
I have found the Academy extremely valuable in providing not only thought provoking speakers each month but also the Board sessions provide an opportunity to gain some completely different, independent opinions
Joining the Academy is a leap of faith but well worth doing
Joining the Academy is a leap of faith but well worth doing
