Ian Bailey-Scudamore is a highly accomplished and talented, multi-lingual, international businessman with over fifty years in-depth experience in manufacturing, services and charities; from start-ups, SMEs to multinationals.

Ian has been a business development consultant for over twenty-five years, encompassing some fifty sectors.

Ian has worked at every level: shop floor to board...operational, tactical, strategic. A generalist... company secretary, general manager, interim manager, director, managing director, chairman, president.

He has consulted for a mini-merchant bank and the London Stock Exchange, and has undertaken valuations and commercial due diligence for companies.

He identifies core issues and produces positive results and processes large quantities of information quickly. Has the rare ability to conceptualize, attends to minutiae while seeing the bigger picture. Facilitates company-wide performance improvements.

Business plan writer, financial planning, team builder, IPOs, pathfinder memoranda etc.

He is great fun to work with and has an engaging, cheeky humor. Ian has faced and overcome many challenges: illness, bankruptcy and personal loss. 

He has learned many important lessons from his failures and inspires confidence. A natural leader. Unafraid to take unpalatable decisions. A path maker as well as a path finder.

Ian is a counselor, mentor and life coach... a motivational speaker, sharing his knowledge and wisdom readily. Fearless when things go wrong and steadfast in a crisis. Highly intelligent and intuitive.

Commercially aware. Keeps abreast of latest business, economic and financial trends and technological breakthroughs. Access to largest commercial library in Europe and worldwide network of influential business contacts.

Ian has worked with over 150 nationalities, accustomed to multi-cultural environments. He respects contrary opinions...classless.

Trustworthiness, professionalism, discretion and integrity are his hallmarks.

Wordsmith, writer, author, editor, proofreader and public speaker.

Ian intends promoting his autobiography combining motivational speaking tours throughout the world.

He integrates the benefits of music, sound, mindfulness and healthy nutrition, promoting a stress-free, work/life balance. 

Ian has taught many styles of guitar alongside his career. He was taught by a student of Andrés Segovia. He also teaches English and Business English to foreign students.

Ian is highly entertaining and draws upon the wide experiences of his roller coaster life. He has travelled widely and undertaken consultancy projects in Africa, Western Europe and the States.

Available for short, medium or long-term consultancy and strategic advisory rôles. Also available for worldwide motivational lecture tours for groups, businesses and educational establishments.

Ian seeks on a yearly basis a small team of high calibre postgraduates to update and relaunch in digital format his looseleaf business publication, entitled "In Business - The Essential Factfile". This formidable work, intended for SMEs, schools, colleges, universities and post-graduate institutions, was endorsed by Sir John Harvey-Jones, the foreword by Lord Sheppard of Didgemere, and nominated for the FT/Booz Allen & Hamilton Business Book Awards in New York.

Qualifications/Affiliations:

Sloan Masters Fellow, London Business School.

MSc in Management (now Leadership & Strategy), Department of Economics & Political Science, University of London.

Former Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (F.C.I.S.).

Former Justice of the Peace.

Other:

Musician, classical guitarist/tutor
Concert Performer/Lecturer
Winner of Open Guitar Duo Class, Cheltenham International Competitive Festival of Music

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Design Award Winner

TEFL, ESOL and Cambridge Proficiency teaching experience

FULL RÉSUMÉ AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

Contact details:

E-mail:
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Mobile:
+44 (0)7879 207065

Landline:
+44 (0)1479 851726

Based in Scotland and Switzerland.

Worldwide Association of Notable Alumni Member Ian Bailey-Scudamore can be found on the Association Directory, where he is looking forward to networking with you.