Mentors

After graduating Edward Ball spent 10 years working internationally both in the UK and Europe with Companies like Shell and Mobil. Following this he went on to work for several SME’s for a period of about 5 years before starting his own businesses employing between 5 and 50 people.

I have run my own Environmental, Health and Safety Consultancy since 2008.  Providing services within Agriculture, Manufacturing, Food Manufacturing, Ministry of Defence, Primary Care Trust, Electrical Engineering, Construction, Waste and Healthcare providers.

Providing EH&S Consultancy, Training, Business Continuity, Environmental, Project Safety and Auditing to 45001, 18001, 50001 & SA8000 Social Compliance standards.

Core Qualifications

MBA: Warwick University 1990

BTech:  Loughborough University 1970

Experience

1991-2017: International Strategic Business Consultants Saudi Arabia/Bahrain

Founder, Owner & Principal Consultant

Sphere of Operations: Strategic Marketing/Business Plans, Market Studies

Radius of Operations: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Oman + Iran

Assignments: 300, incl:

With almost 20 years of Creative & Commercial Design for Retail experience, I have a wealth of knowledge and experience. An engaging thought leader with buckets of Creative passion and energy.  I specialise in Creative vision, art direction, brand styling, mentoring & coaching, sustainable design, & so much more. 

Below are some of my areas of expertise:

My Entrepreneurial Abilities include being a:
-    Brand Identifier & Digital Marketing Strategist
-    Integrated Brand Partnerships Business Consultant
-    Business Enterprises Adviser and Tutor
-    Creative / Copy Writer & Presenter

(Welsh Speaker)

The many working years I spent in Canada strengthened my core belief that optimism, self-belief, and a ‘can do’ attitude are fundamental to business success.

As a bilingual(Welsh/English)businessperson – now based back on the Isle of Anglesey – I am also deeply proud of my heritage. I believe that Wales-based businesses need to celebrate their uniqueness in a global marketplace.

Marketing and Investment Promotion professional, with extensive Board experience, offering core skills in the following areas;

Welsh Learner

I have been running e-development since 2010 and have been developing online training packages for a large number of subject matter experts in a wide variety of sectors from local government and large manufacturing companies for internal staff training to individual business coaches who use the training with their client base.

The last 10 years running an ecommerce company and attending crossfit competitions around the country – www.bearstrength.co.uk dealing with sales, marketing, social media, budgets, advertising and design and production and understand and deliver all the requirements of a director.
I am also a Director and Financial Planner of Sanctuary Financial Planning which provides financial planning for clients for all their needs from mortgages to pensions and investments.

My expertise is in getting to the root cause of workflow problems, and then evaluating potential solution sets seeking the combination of ideas that best balances cost against customer service.