24/09/2025
💡 Ever thought about adding grey hair to your boardroom?
I had dinner recently with two chaps in their 60s who absolutely blew me away:
👔 One – a CEO who’s built, bought, sold, and turned around businesses of every shape and size (start-ups, SMEs, private equity-backed).
🌍 The other – a former VP of Sales for a global chemical company, with unrivalled knowledge of chemicals and composites.
The way they spoke about growth, risk, and opportunity? A masterclass. This is the kind of wisdom you cannot Google.
🔸People with decades of experience see risks you don’t.
🔸They spot opportunities you’d otherwise miss.
🔸And in a crisis, their judgement is second to none.
Yet too many businesses overlook this value.
As the saying goes: you don’t know what you don’t know.
Hiring a mentor or Non-Exec Director (NED) could save your business from making costly mistakes, or open doors you didn’t know existed.
And if you want to take it further, imagine sitting at the table with 12 other CEOs, owners, and multi-generation family businesses all sharing that depth of experience. That kind of network changes everything.
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