John Anderson

Background

About John Anderson

Leveraging EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & CONNECTIONS for founders and family businesses. As a specialist in entrepreneurship and growth, I bring close to 30 years of personal and professional experience working with the leaders of growth companies to my roles as Non-Executive Chair and Director in growing businesses and as Visiting Professor and Director of the ScaleUp Institute endorsed Growth Advantage Programme at Strathclyde Business School. During my career I have been exposed to several hundred growth companies in Scotland, variously as a CA in professional practice; as advisor and mentor; as owner-manager; as business school researcher, case study author and professor of practice; as peer learning and structured executive education specialist and as angel investor and Non-Executive Director and Chair. As such, I believe that I have an almost unique set of skills and experience of the challenges that every founder / owner faces at different stages of their growth journey and for the last decade I have been focusing on applying this knowledge and experience at scale by delivering the Growth Advantage Programme, Help to Grow: Management and the Scottish Impact Investor Readiness Programme to over 500 founders and family businesses and with a hands-on intensity as Chair of selected growth companies. I am a Founding GlobalScot and a member of Chapter Zero, the Directors' Climate Forum, which is helping business leaders consider climate change in board decision-making. I have an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Strathclyde for leadership and commitment to entrepreneurship in Scotland. My strength lies in working closely with a founder or next generation owner to help them maintain their role as purposeful leader and to help them build a leadership team that is focused on strategy execution and operational excellence - all with the support of an Enlightened Board©. This is my “Why”.