Welcome to Aspire Companies
Business Growth & Improvement
Founder, Andy Richardson is passionate about creating value in business.
Andy is a Chairman, NED & Investor who enables Boards to Achieve Growth. Andy is a Transformation and Scale-Up Expert, and he is giving back decades of experience as a CEO and Chairman.
His passion features strongly across his NED Roles and his Investments. Andy has a particular interest and expertise in business transformation using the power of UGRs® to improve workplace culture.
Andy is a CEO and Chairman with 40 years of experience. He has executed Business Growth, Transformations, Culture Change, Productivity Growth, Turnarounds, M&A and Developed People in Start-up, Listed, Private and Private Equity owned businesses. He is an accredited member of The Institute for Turnaround.
Services
Aspire offers a range of services including the popular Streamlined StartUp Method™. Services include:
Non-Executive Director
Non-Executive Director – Investor
Transformed Performance for CEO’s, Aspiring CEOs, and ambitious Business Leaders
Business Improvement using the power of UGRs® to improve Workplace Culture
Successful people create strong businesses that generate symbiotic value for owners and employees. Andy enables people to create lasting positive impact on their business.
NED, Chairman, and Investor
Andy is a Transformation, Scale-Up and Turnaround Expert. He empowers Leaders to Achieve Business Success and Earn Respect.
Andy is a Non-Executive Director, Chairman, and Investor
Andy enables growth, improved margin, and cash flow by pivoting leaders’ wellbeing and performance, evolving leadership, creating a high-performance team culture, revolutionising strategy, sales & margin, and bringing joy to team members and shareholders.
Andy is an experienced Chairman & CEO, with a demonstrated history of success in the manufacturing sector including Automotive, FMCG, Medical Devices, Aerospace, Off-Highway, Engines, Consumer Products, Safety Products, Building Products. Andy is experienced in PLC, Private Equity and Family Office ownership structures. He has international experience, operational experience, and a great network of affiliates and quality advisors. He can be strategic, tactical or hands on.
Andy has a passion for inspiring people to succeed in business. He’s an inspirational leader with expertise in transformation, scaleup, turnaround, strategy, growth, margin improvement, creating effective teams, cost reduction, debt refinancing, acquisitions, disposals, solvent, and insolvent restructuring. Andy thrives on big challenges with a clear objective. He loves life and loves helping people to achieve business success and earn respect from shareholders, customers, team members and all stakeholders.
Andy is keen to invest personally in quality businesses that have the appetite and the ability to grow.
Transforming Performance for CEOs, Aspiring CEOs, and ambitious Business Leaders
Transformation is at the core of how Aspire helps owners and managers to be successful. Participants benefit from Andy’s experience and success. They get the advice they need when they need it, covering any aspect of a business. Andy’s focus is more development driven, looking not just at the leader’s current job function but further, taking a more comprehensive approach to career, life and business evolution. That helps leaders to grow.
Passionate people are more likely to enquire more, seeking more knowledge. Andy goes beyond the theory. He helps the leader to achieve their ambitions by putting their self-interest aside, building resilience, making great decisions, achieving professional and personal goals. A successful relationship fosters successful collaboration and creates a confident, self-aware leader.
Succession Planning
Many boards overlook succession planning. Research published in Harvard Business Review shows that the value of your business is likely to drop by 20%-25% if you don’t have a good Succession Plan.
Succession Planning isn’t just preparing for a CEO’s long-term retirement. CEOs are more likely to leave because they are headhunted, they become sick, their performance is inadequate, or they want to sell their shares.
When a CEO leaves, they take with them relationships, a detailed understanding of strategy, maintenance of a healthy culture, knowledge, and leadership.
Harvard research found that an internal successor CEO is 61% more likely to do better than an external appointment.
Aspire Companies Business Growth & Improvement specialises in Succession Planning. Aspire can identify internal candidates with the right traits proven to indicate future potential. Aspire can create a development programme for those candidates. Aspire can mentor, coach and support them to be prepared.
Testimonials
“Andy literally transformed me! As a 40-year old professional female, although I hid it quite well, I lacked the confidence to truly perform to my capabilities and to grow them further. Andy’s faith in me and his coaching gave me the confidence to spread my wings and flourish. I will always be in his debt. ”
“Andy identified potential in me, kick started my career and challenged me to be better. Andy continues to push for me to reach that potential and mentor me and I am very grateful to him.”
Streamlined StartUp Method™
The Streamlined StartUp Method enables aspiring business owners to start up a business rapidly. It’s streamlined because it gets customer feedback on products quickly – within weeks or months.
This dramatically cuts cost and lead-times. It provides evidence for potential investors, enabling a business to be successful rapidly.
Owners can get going without giving up their regular income. They can create a business of their dreams.
Get in Touch
Do you want to get started on improving productivity by 20% or more, or just find out more? Let’s have a conversation.