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
Building outstanding people performance with Alice Jordan (27 July 2017)
An opportunity to experience the Academy at an inspirational day at the De Vere New Place Hotel, Southampton on Thursday 27th July from 08:00 to 16:30 with Alice Jordan, founder and Managing Director of Inner Strengths. Alice lives and breathes helping SMEs build outstanding people performance and helps others move forward in terms of business performance and the lives of people who work within them. 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. More about this group >
Corporate governance (31 August 2017)
This is a unique opportunity to experience the Academy at an inspirational session at the De Vere New Place Hotel, Southampton on Thursday 31 August (from 08:00 - 16:30), with Jo Haigh while also engaging in a peer group board session with other leaders like you. Our morning session begins with Jo Haigh who has bought and sold over 400 companies in the last 27 years, specialising in owner managed companies. Jo delivers over 150 events on multiple topics every year to organisations in the UK and Europe. The objective of the meeting is to give you an insight into how membership works and the benefits it brings to you and your business. You’d get a taste of what life is like being an Academy member.
The Global Economy (28 September 2017)
An opportunity to experience the Academy at an inspirational day and engage in a peer group board session with other leaders like you. This will take place at the De Vere New Place Hotel, Southampton on Thursday 28 September from 08:00 to 16:30 with Justin Urquhart Stewart; one of the most recognisable and trusted market commentators on television, radio and in the press. Justin Urquhart-Stewart is also one of the co-founders and Head of Corporate Development at Seven Investment Management where they deliver radical common sense in an industry where that quality is hard to find. 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
