IN PURSUIT OF POTENTIAL
Simple & Inspiring plans for growth
You love your business and have worked hard to build it, the ambition for more is there.
You are creative and committed. Your product, service, brand and design ethos are strong. You can sense it all has further potential.
But bringing all of this together in an inspiring, clear and simple way is not easy.
Just carving out the time and headspace you or your team need to get to grips with the future is tough.
That’s where I can help.
How I help
I help owners and leaders like you, who, through the quality and creative ethos of their business, bring delight to people’s lives through the well-designed products and services they offer for the home.
SEON is my business. I set it up to let you
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Leverage the power of your creative thinking and your distinctive strengths
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Find the right solution to your unique growth challenges
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Do all that in a way that fast tracks your ability to see further, think differently and uncover opportunities you didn’t know you had.
Whether you feel frustrated by the mounting pressures of costs, markets and competition; just swamped with daily grind; have too many ideas or simply feel unsure about the best way to go, I can help.
SEOn Promise
The process I developed is easy to follow. It will not wrap you up in months of meetings, off-sites and blue sky thinking. But it will give you the time and space to make good decisions.
It will get your best thinking out of your heads and into simple plans that can realise your potential.
It will get you inspired, creating and sustaining a momentum for the growth you seek in ways that suit you.
You will emerge clear, confident and excited by the opportunity ahead.
HOW IT WORKS
STEP 1 : START
Because taking the first step is sometimes the hardest.
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Stretch and explore your thinking
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Frame your challenge
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Get clear on what you want and the implications you may have to face
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1 day
STEP 2 : SPARK
Create an energy for change
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Inspire new ideas and uncover hidden opportunity
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Find your quick wins, innovations and transformations (and the stuff you can park)
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Simplify into a RoadMap for Growth
STEP 3 : SEEK
Start to pursue your goals
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Take action to explore and refine your boldest plans
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Plug gaps
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Implement quick wins
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Make changes that help you grow
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Set KPIs that will keep you on track
STEP 4 : SUSTAIN
Stay on track with
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Consistent light touch review
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focused project support
Who?
My name is Simon Bird and I started SEON in 2019 with the express intention of using creativity and creative thinking to make it easier for owners and leaders in furniture, furnishings and interior design markets to find and sustain growth.
WHY?
Growth is never easy. But we can make it less painful.
Why leave our creative brains to only tackle issues of design and making? We should also apply them to growth. By successfully combining and encouraging instinct and imagination, as well as objective, disciplined thinking, we can ignite and sustain growth.
These can overcome the tendency that I see, as an onlooker/ consumer, for ‘sameness’ in this sector but also promote the talent for design, making and innovation that often struggles to recognise its own uniqueness and meet its full potential.
I want more people to be aware of and buy great design, excellent products and outstanding services. Such things just make our homes and our lives better, and that sounds like a growth opportunity to me.
MY APPROACH
Is based on over 30 years of leading sales and marketing in international premium branded businesses. From my first corporate job, selling paper to designers in France, to my last, as global executive director of marketing and EC in the furniture industry I have been asked, irrespective of market conditions, to deliver profitable organic growth.
Finding and sustaining it has been my constant challenge.
It forced me to constantly innovative and where necessary drive transformative change, not just to stay with the game, but preferably to get, and stay ahead of it.
Over time I have found relying on my creative instincts helped me but this has been complemented by experience, collaboration, what I’ve learned through my MBA in Creativity, Innovation & Change, and even through my own practice as an abstract artist.
It has all been distilled into what I do today, and who I do it for.
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