Dan Sodergren

Motivational marketing man, awarding winner business owner Dan is a dynamic post start guerrilla marketing specialist with over 500 successful interventions over his 3 year period in the public sector. Creator of the BE GREAT system, which is set to change the way that micro and SME businesses perceive and receive marketing support and training in the NW, Dan Sodergren produces high energy master classes in several called for subjects as well as personalised detailed 1-2-1 training support to help his clients make more money.

Alison Hornsby

Alison is passionate and focused on innovative and practical client led enterprise development projects. She is the author of the only QCA approved stand alone Project Management Qualification and designer of a number of other enterprise accreditations at level 2, as well as our wonderful time management workshops, and her work was recently commended at The National Leadership Conference.  She is an influential player and designer of new initiatives for enterprise delivery at all levels and a great asset to the team.

Stephen Ireland

Web development expert and SEO master: Keeping on top of a fast paced industry is what Stephen does best, learning continually from the inner sanctum to represent and study and often teach the cutting edge theories and experts in a continually changing world of the web. Experienced in website design, application development, software management and delivery modules Stephen now uses his skills to help small businesses maximise their web potential, larger businesses to create and maintain a positive web presence and is so good that he now trains the web developers themselves through Manchester College.

Andrew Davis

Andrew Davis first joined the UK’s thriving social media sector four years ago, his rise to success has been as rapid as the growth of the social networks he has come to represent.  Davis’ media career began at the BBC’s digital radio station 1Xtra, which he helped to launch, before being headhunted by MySpace.com in 2006 to launch then, the small start up company. The Guardian newspaper and two of the top trade media magazines have all awarded Andrew with top honours for his achievements & tipped him for future success. He now does this working with Flying Start with Dan Sodergren and on our new social networking workshops – which is great news.

Barry Forester

Barry is an experienced and successful Sales and Marketing Strategist, whose expertise combines Big Business best practice with cutting edge University Research.

He has spent most of his career at General Electric USA, one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, where he built their European Laundry Appliances business from scratch into a $60 million operation, and ended up as the billion dollar Lighting Division European Marketing Director.

He currently helps hundreds of small and medium sized businesses achieve their ambitions, and delivers Marketing and Strategy programmes up to Masters level at Manchester University and Salford Business School.

Christina O’Conner

With years of experience as a BBC Journalist, Christina O’Connor uses insider knowledge of the media industry, journalistic skill and a bulging contacts book, to help businesses to capitalise on the marketing potential of the media. An excellent & enthusiastic communicator, Christina in our PR workshops, gives clients the tools and confidence to take the media by storm and develop a positive public image: from how to write press releases, presentation skills for TV and radio to video/audio editing for You Tube and web-based social networking.

Joel Graham Blake

Learning from his own journey from being a full time factory worker to becoming an award-winning business consultant, entrepreneur and role model, Joel has harnessed the powers of self-belief and effective action, to help others overcome barriers and maximize their potential.

He has developed a credible reputation throughout the UK for his straight talking yet nurturing approach, his charismatic personality and his unique ability to grow the commercial opportunities for businesses whilst ensuring they create a positive impact within the local communities they serve. And his workshops kick ass too.