ADVICE CONSULTANCY TRAINING TECHNOLOGY

SPARK GLOBAL BUSINESS

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LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION

Spark Global Business works with an international portfolio of customers in organizational and individual transformation.

Our key focus is on organizational health - the ability to align, execute, and renew the organization - adapting to the present and shaping the future faster and better than the competition.

Healthy organizations don’t merely learn to adjust to current context or challenges that lie just ahead; they create a capacity to learn and keep changing over time.

Operating since 2001 with a presence on four continents, we work with public and private sector organizations as they explore commercial excellence through organizational health.

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HITTING THE QUADRUPLE

BOTTOM LINE

Whilst organizations need to consistently perform at an above- average level financially in order to be considered successful, the modern enterprise has other factors to consider.

Spark helps you to measure broader accountability than simple profit & loss through the Quadruple Bottom Line (QBL).

Focus on the Quadruple Bottom Line encourages everyone to consider a broader accountability than simple P&L.

Applying the principles of QBL ensures that the executive team is responsible for the financial, environmental, and social performance as well as an ongoing commitment to future-proofing the enterprise through intrapreneurship.

QBL-driven enterprises perform well financially, environmentally, socially, and in how they engage with their employees.

Spark helps you to empower and equip your employees, build motivational environments and dismantle negative behaviours.

FUTURE-PROOFING

QBL

ECOLOGYPROFITABILITY

SOCIETY

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INTRODUCING SPARKOur StoryThe seeds for the idea behind Spark began in 2000

when our managing director, serial entrepreneur

Neil Fogarty sold his business services company,

Mosaic Associates.

For 10 years, he had been involved in building

enterprises through Associates and Partners

with a constant focus on corporate mindset

and so spent almost all of 2000 researching the

psychology of business growth.

In 2001, ‘NM Holland Advisory Services’ launched,

specializing in helping startup and small

enterprises.

Over time, engagements were being delivered

in the UK and the Middle East and, responding

to client requests, the service offering expanded

into a wider context of ‘corporate effectiveness’

which included strategy, culture, performance

and more.

The birth of SparkIn 2011, a consultation exercise with key clients

led to a re-brand of the company and the name

chosen was Spark Global Business.

In 2012, Spark was incorporated in the UK with

regional partnership agreements.

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Organizational HealthSince 2001, we have been providing advice,

consultancy and training under what is now

generally referred to as ‘organizational health’:

an organization’s ability to function effectively, to

cope adequately, to change appropriately, and to

grow from within.

To date, we have published two books - both

with a focus on organizational and individual

attitude and mindset and these have formed

the foundation of our products in the areas

of organizational health, collaboration, and

employee engagement.

Spark DNAFrom the beginning, clients have responded to

Spark’s focused and practical approaches that are

still key to how we work today: we only work with

people we like.

We firmly believe that a face-to-face meeting with

a flip-chart and a coffee is still the very best way to

define issues and craft solutions.

We expect at least one action from every meeting

and conversation we undertake.

We look forward to working with you!

We have grown from a startup working at the kitchen table to a multi-office organization engaged by government and corporate customers from as far afield as Qatar to Puerto Rico.

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THE SOLUTION MIXAdviceA great deal of our work is about empowerment

and enablement - equipping your key people

to be able to ‘do it themselves’. This is far more

sustainable (and cost-efficient) than consistently

relying on a consultancy to do it all for you.

Spark is able to deliver soundboarding, mentoring,

coaching, masterclasses and keynotes speeches

on core topics as a way to pass our knowledge

and experiences on to you.

ConsultancyThere will be times when spot-consultancy or

project work is a more relevant way to use Spark

and we have experience in a number of areas

including the design build and implementation

of the environment that supports transformation

activities (the ‘ecosystem’).

Our ecosystem work includes:

• business growth

• intrapreneurship (corporate entrepreneurs)

• entrepreneurship

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Our wider consultancy engagements have

included conflict resolution, performance

management & improvement, public sector

innovation, commercialization programs, and

leadership development.

TrainingEither as part of a wider engagement or as

a standalone solution, Spark has delivered

workshops to over 5,000 business professionals

on such topics as intrapreneurship, public sector

commercialization, collaborative intelligence,

emotional intelligence, leadership development

and more.

Technology

To support our work in innovation &

intrapreneurship, our idea management toolkit

encourages employee participation, collaborative

working (crowdsourcing), and idea tracking.

We work with you to define the most appropriate solution. You could call it ‘customer-centric’ but we prefer to call it ‘common sense’. We focus on legacy - leaving something meaningful behind.

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Customer-CenteredSpark uses Design Thinking as

the foundation to all of our

assignments.

We invest time and energy

in understanding your issue

but, importantly, the drill-

down: enabling us to co-create

solutions to the root cause with

the client teams.

We seek out feedback at all

stages in order to consistently

work towards the best solution.

Our ExpertiseOur primary expertise is people-

driven as we recognize this is

your key resource and asset.

We deploy a blend of advice,

consultancy, training and

technology to individual,

team and departmental

evolution as well as leadership

development, performance

improvement, culture change,

conflict resolution, and change

management.

In 2001, the professional services director of a global IT company awarded us a contract due to our focus on specific aspects of business. His words to us, upon the award were simple yet defining: “companies that offer me everything tend to deliver me nothing - so I only tend to work with specialists.”

THE SPARK PORTFOLIO

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THE SPARK PORTFOLIOSpark works closely with customers in order to develop relevant and sustainable solutions.

We apply our structured approach in order to blend advice consultancy and training in order to realize measureable bene�ts.

www.sparkglobalbusiness.com

Spark has provided business growth consultancy since 2001.

We work with governments in the development of entrepreneurship and employability ecosystems.

Spark works with corporations in such areas as startup, growth, and turnaround including securing access to �nance.

Spark �rst began to deploy corporate entrepreneurship (intrapreneurship) principles

within client organizations in 2002 and is considered to be one of the few consultancies in

the world to build intrapreneur ecosystems.

Our intrapreneurship programs include mentoring, masterclasses and workshops as

well as the development of your idea laboratory to transform ideas into commercial reality.

Spark’s Leadership Development program enables your current and future leadership to step up to the next level.

The Mindful Leader Initiative brings together a blend of talking therapy, performance coaching, leadership mentoring and collaborative intelligence all serve to empower and enable your key talent.

INTRAPRENEURSHIP

ENTERPRISE

Spark PlayMakersLEADERSHIP

SPARK BUSINESS GROWTH

SPARK GAMECHANGERS

SPARK PLAYMAKERS

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Spark Enterprise & Employability Academy

focuses on social and economic

development through

structured approaches to

enterprise and employability.

The model includes training,

consultancy, technology,

mentoring, incubation, and

finance.

We have developed enterprise

models for federal government

including enabling startups,

sourcing funding for SMEs and

positioning enterprises for

high-growth funding.

Our current public sector

work is focused on

‘innovative government’ and

commercializing their activity

along the lines of QBL.

In addition to this, our extensive

work with the private sector

has ranged from startups

through the full range of

business growth and includes

intervention & turnaround as

well as mergers acquisition and

divestment.

SPARK BUSINESS GROWTH®

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GameChangers are the

organizations with the

capability and intent to make

an impact on the world we live

in.

GameChangers are the people

in your organization with the

kernel of a fantastic idea and

need corporate support to

transform it into reality.

Working with innovators

and intrapreneurs, Spark

encourages open innovation

– our ‘breaking down the

tribes’ seminar has long been

the foundation to helping

organisations to invite ideas

from outside and develop

collaborative intelligence in

working with others.

Using a blend of advice,

consultancy and training,

and our idea management

software, our programs are

designed to attract and prove

the commercial viability of an

idea quickly before progressing

through full innovation,

incubation and acceleration

phases to bring ideas to market.

SPARK GAMECHANGERS®

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The modern leader is a

PlayMaker – someone with

the vision and ability to read

the market, and to position the

organization accordingly.

Leadership is an integral part

of all Spark initiatives and, with

the growing interest in Spark’s

leadership development

programs, we have launched

The Mindful Leader.

Leadership Development isn’t

a workshop, or a masterclass

or a single mentoring

session – it is an ongoing

process of development. The

Mindful Leader designs and

builds impactful Leadership

Development programs.

Spark PlayMakers® is a scalable

solution drawing together

advice consultancy & training

ranging from 1:1 engagements

with the CEO through to the

build of entire leadership

development programs for

current and future talent.

SPARK PLAYMAKERS®

www.mindful-leader.co

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There’s more to our story... but it’s much better to discuss it face-to-face than read it in a brochure...

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Henley Road

Warwickshire

UK

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