14 | Q4 2020 Aug20015 Raising The Bar Specialising in business support and advice for organisations throughout Wales, Landsker Business Solutions has a winning combination of commitment and tenacity. Jeremy Bowen Rees tells us more about the firm and how it is weathering the Covid-19 storm. As a multi-award winning independent management consultancy, Landsker Business Solutions Ltd provides business support and advice to small, medium and large enterprises, throughout Wales, to the private, public and 3rd sectors. Landsker is approved on a range of Welsh Government support programmes, including Farming Connect, Arts Council of Wales Resilience programme, Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme, Wales CoOperative Centre, The Social Business Wales programme, Food & Drink sector framework agreement, Superfast Wales and the Cywain programme. Having such accreditations allows the firm to quickly identify where and what business support is applicable to enquiring clients, and all of this means that Landsker can work on either a private fee basis, or by accessing the schemes outlined above, enabling many clients to access services on a discounted basis or for free. The firm helps both pre-start and established businesses with turnover up to £30million and has supported over 2,500 businesses, helped raise funds in excess of £120 million for clients, and directly assisted the creation of over 4,000 jobs in Wales. Landsker places huge emphasis on being customer focused and delivering value, with its mission being to ‘help clients make the best business decision’ in order for them to grow and prosper. Its values ensure that the work it undertakes is high quality, bespoke and relevant to each of its clients. Managing Director, Jeremy Bowen Rees, tells us more about the consultancy and its commitment. “We care about each and every client,” he begins. “The decisions we encourage our clients to make can make or break their lives and we take this responsibility very seriously.” “In addition to this, we also adopt a pragmatic and honest approach to all that we do. We always advise our clients on what they need to know rather than what would be easier to accomplish – or indeed, what they may want to hear!” With extensive experience of assisting new and established enterprises seeking financially sustainable outcomes, Landsker’s cross-sector and multi-programme work means that it knows the trading patterns, people, organisations, funding schemes and policies which influence business activities. Operating pan-Wales allows Landsker to share and apply best practices seen elsewhere and working with a diverse range of clients across many industry sectors better enables it to define and deliver successful business solutions for its clients. Landsker also believes that all third sector businesses should, ideally, be financially sustainable from their own activities, although this can be difficult to manage if it conflicts with aims and objectives. Understanding such challenges enables Landsker to identify practical solutions, which allow social businesses to fulfil their social aims, whilst improving their financial sustainably in the medium to long-term. Jeremy describes Landsker’s internal culture as being deliberately crafted to be fair, informal, provocative, and meritocratic. “Prior to lockdown we worked in a frenetic, open plan environment which encouraged team interaction, quick decision making and having a constant stream of flowing idea,” he explains. “We have managed to transfer much of this online where all employees have daily group catch ups using Hangouts and Zoom. Working remotely has so far not diminished our “esprit d’corps” but it has changed how we work, and we are still adapting to this.”
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