54 Acquisition International - Influential Businesswoman Awards 2023 Looking ahead, Christine is delighted to say that her business is still growing. Now, she is looking at ways of establishing new paths of business growth, personal development and supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs. To this end, she is an active mentor and participant in Project Re:Make, a programme for getting people out of the cycle of re-offending and into entrepreneurship, self-employment or meaningful work. Additionally, over the years, she has also mentored a number of young women into senior finance positions, some of whom would be still stuck in clerical roles if not for being pushed to believe they could do more. With such a strong history behind her, we can’t wait to see what Christine does next! Company: Nicholson Hall Advisory Limited Contact: Christine Nicholson- christine@christinenicholson.co.uk Phone: 0333 567 8011 Website: www.businessmentoruk.com Social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-nicholson/ Books: 5 Minute Finance What’s Your Profit Score How to BUILD a Unicorn SELL IT Most Influential Business Advisor 2023 (London): Christine Nicholson usiness owners face two incredible challenges. The first is that they will have to leave their business, one way or another and the second is that they always have to start in three roles, namely as owner, director and employee. Often people do not prepare to leave a business, which can make disentangling your life immensely awkward. Nicholson Hall Advisory specialises in making sure that this process is as straightforward as possible. Over the last thirty years, Christine and her team have seen many businesses reach a less than ideal end to their lifecycle. While there was the potential to continue on with the operation, the sale process posed too great a difficult, emotional and stressful prospect. This is often due, in no small part, to a lack of preparation. What Nicholson Hall Advisory offer is a plan of action that can make it easier to sell your business for the right price and move on with the next phase of your life. Christine Nicholson has been helping business owners exit their businesses for decades and having done it herself many times. She qualified as an accountant in 1998 and cut her teeth on one of the biggest exit programmes of her career. This project covered multiple companies in different countries and time zones, operating in a variety of industry sectors where the business was bundled into packages and sold to a number of buyers. Every exit was different, and the only common denominator was the seller. Since this amazing opportunity, Christine has worked in a number of sectors, establishing her own businesses in healthcare, technology, professional services and engineering.1 With all this expertise under her belt, it’s little wonder that when it comes to exit programmes, Christine knows how to avoid all of the obvious pitfalls and how to overcome the most unprecedented difficulties. Her simple three-step plan, followed to the letter, guarantees success for everyone. Firstly, her clients must get a valuation, non-financial assessment and benchmark report on their business. From this, a bespoke action plan can be developed. This action plan will include ideas on how to increase business value through to implementable actions that have immediate impact. More than 80% of businesses never sell. Being exit ready, at any point in a business’s lifecycle, means that the business owner has more options, especially should the worst happen, and they are unable to carry on the business themselves. By protecting the biggest financial asset, you have (your business), you can remove a layer of unnecessary stress from your life. B Apr23382 Leaving a business is by no means easy, but that’s where the team from Nicholson Hall Advisory Limited come in. Being prepared is crucial to ultimate satisfaction and continued success. With success achieved in the Influential Businesswoman Awards 2023, we thought it the right time to see just how Christine Nicholson has risen to her position at the forefront of the industry.
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