About Derick

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35+ years Experience

A Founder Supporting Business Leaders & Teams

I help business leaders unlock growth, deliver strategy, and scale their operations by providing strategic, hands-on advisory. With 35+ years of experience in start-ups, corporate M&A, and high-stakes business growth, I guide leaders toward maximising value and achieving operational excellence.

I help steer leading businesses and motivated individuals towards success. Using my years of experience, knowledge base, network, and expertise, I have had the pleasure of successes and the pressures of failure, so I certainly know how to navigate the challenges you may face.

I began my working life in my family bakery, so I’ve always considered myself a creative at heart. In my downtime I love spending time entertaining family and friends & walking my dog Gracie.

My journey began in entrepreneurship, with my first business at 23, a bakery in Hampton Court, Surrey.

Over nearly four decades, I led and transformed businesses across technology, retail, food and multi-site operations, building teams, implementing structure, managing growth and leading through uncertainty.

This taught me the realities and pressures founders face:

What I Offer

AI Tools I use to Improve my Performance

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ChatGPT

Great for asking questions, and general content support, it certainly has replaced google in my life.

Descript

If your a content creator this is great for editing videos and podcasts.

Claude

It’s ChatGPT Twin.. by Anthropic

Make.com

Make.com An AI Game changer AI driven workflow automation.

Gemini

Forget Google this Research tool is game-changing.

NoteBookLM

AI podcasting creation tool just fantastic

Flow.ai

I just love how this is developing