Oct 05 2009
Jo Haigh
Multi Award Winning Entrepreneur and Bestselling Author
Jo Haigh is an independent General and Corporate Financier with extensive skills in mergers & acquisitions, private equity and general management as well as an Entrepreneur. She has bought and sold over 300 companies in the last 20 years specialising in owner managed companies. She is currently a partner and Head of Corporate Finance at Corporate Finance Services LLP.
Jo has won speaker of the year award in Vistage and is “the speaker most in demand”
In 1989 she founded her own business, the fds Group, a training and consultancy organisation. Over the past years she has held numerous non-executive roles in various different companies and is a regular presenter for the Institute of Directors on corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. She is a visiting Fellow at the Leeds University where she delivers lectures on Corporate Governance. In her distinguished career, Jo has been has been awarded various accolades including the IOD Business Adviser of the Year Award (2006/07) and Business Woman of the Year 2005/06.[/expand]
With her extensive knowledge in Strategic Planning, Financial Management, Corporate Finance and Boardroom Management she offers essential and effective advice how to improve boardroom dynamics, improve company finances and how to effectively grow and sell a business. An astute businesswoman and entrepreneur herself, Jo Haigh has assisted over five hundred company CEO’s by giving them the tools to make their businesses survive and thrive even in difficult times.[/expand]
Jo is an inspirational and highly motivated speaker with a firm, but common sense approach and the ability to hold and inspire even the most sceptical groups. Her passion, financial and legal knowledge together with her willingness to help others makes her a highly sought after speaker today.[/expand]
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Topics
Directors and Corporate Responsibilities
Boardroom Basics
Buying, Selling and Valuing Companies and Raising Finance
Managing Women in the Workplace
Corporate Governance
Publications
Forthcoming in 2011
Knowing Your Numbers
2008
Tales from the Glass Ceiling: A Survival Guide for Women in Business
Buying and Selling a Business: An Entrepreneur’s Guide
2006
The Business Rules: Protect Yourself and Your Company from Over 100 Hidden Pitfalls
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