INSPIRING LEADERS TO SIGNIFICANTLY AND SUSTAINABLY SCALE THEM AND THEIR BUSINESSES, BY UTILIZING OUR #ADDAZERO METHODOLOGY.
Jay Allen, is a 2 x Global Entrepreneur ‘Big Impact to Business’ Award Winner (Kauffman Institute), Listed on the UK ‘Clear Business Thinking’ (Smith & Williamson) POWER 100, as a highly sort after, engaging, interactive speaker, providing up to date thoughts, idea’s and evidence-based research on the significant and sustainable SCALE of business leaders and their businesses.
Jay is internationally recognised as a speaker, trainer, and coach on Sustainable Business Scale, with nearly 15 years of experience. He’s an award-winning entrepreneur, with a Master’s degree in Ethical Leadership and a Bachelor’s degree’s in Human Psychology and Change Management. He is the founder of the #ADDAZERO Business Challenge.
Jay’s proven, tested and patented approach to transforming how we view business, empowers business leaders with positive choices to review their current model, business objectives and methodology. As a result, builds stronger more agile, and scalable companies with more engaged employees.
His vision is to help 1,000,000 business leaders globally to #ADDAZERO to their business, build a sustainable SCALE business, employing more people, based on culture, values and purpose. That collectively we can eradicate unemployment.
EARLY ENTREPRENEURIAL SUCCESS
Having been born into a family business, Jay has ‘grown up’ in a self-employed space. After his career in the military came to an unexpected end (Medical Discharged after a series of ‘incidents’ post-operational tours) He has worked at the highest level for 2 of the UK’s largest supermarkets, and Regional Management within the Public Sector. He ‘branched out’ to the world of self-employment, and since then has either bought, acquired, or set up 4 of his own businesses. Scaled to and Exited twice.
BUSINESS BUILDER
In 2013 Jay won a Global Entrepreneur ‘Big Impact to Business’ Award (Kauffman Institute for Entrepreneurship) for the speed and success in scaling and exiting his Health & Safety Consultancy. This introduced Jay to the international audience and saw new clients across Europe and the United States. In 2014, he went on to win the award again, for the support he provided his clients and the results they witnessed as a result (8 National Finalists in Entrepreneur of the Year Awards). Since then, Jay has won various industry awards and employed a team of data analysts looking at what causes failure! The results of which, have led him to devise and head up the #ADDAZERO Business Challenge.
INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER, TRAINER, COACH
Jay is a sought-after international keynote speaker and a former member of the Professional Speaking Association. He is also a certified trainer and global award-winning coach/mentor through which he has helped thousands of businesses scale their business.
PUBLISHED AUTHOR
Jay regularly writes for various business magazines/blogs that have a global readership and has also written four books. Battlefield2Boardroom – Using proven Military Strategy to combat team mediocrity (2015), Road2Utopia – And how to take a shortcut (2017). And #ADDAZERO – The Ultimate Guide to Sustainable Scale (1 & 2).
ASIDE OF WORK
Aside from work as both Speaker & Mentor, Jay can frequently be found with a small pack on his back, trekking across the hills, mountains and fells of England, Scotland & Wales. He swims daily, cycles frequently, and enjoys much of his time amongst nature in the outdoors. Jay is both a Husband and Father and resides in the North West of England, UK.
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