Hello, I’m Kevin Appleby
Mentor, Business Coach and Podcaster
My mission is to help equip you for the new challenges of the 2020’s and help you stand out
I work with the leadership team at GrowCFO, building a community for finance leaders. I specialise in helping you with your business planning and I help you become a catalyst for change in your business. GrowCFO provides you with a huge range of resources to help you with both your personal and professional development.
Outside of GrowCFO I’m a consultant and coach helping businesses with finance transformation and business change.
I’m also a podcast host. Podcasting is a great way to increase your personal influence and I’m always looking for interesting guests to join me.
Do you want to work with me? Book a call and lets have a chat
Kevin Appleby hosts the GrowCFO show
While there are lots of business podcasts around, there are very few that are dedicated to you, the finance leader. The GrowCFO show brings you something topical to listen to each week. As with everything in GrowCFO we want the content to be driven by you, so drop over to the community and chat to us about what you want to hear about.
Kevin is the regular host of the GrowCFO show, and he is always open to ideas and suggestions, and always looking out for interesting guests to interview
Listen to Kevin Appleby every week on The Next 100 Days Podcast
The Next 100 Days Podcast is a leading UK business show. Through this podcast, Kevin and Graham reveal strategies you can use to improve your business and take it to the next level. In addition to featuring their own advice, Kevin Appleby and Graham Arrowsmith host amazing guests from across the business world. Often the guests are successful, but lesser-known business owners and entrepreneurs, enabling the show to bring fresh content and stand out from many of the US based business shows.
Graham and Kevin believe that business change comes about when a business owner focusses on just one thing that will make a real difference to his business. That might be product development, a new product launch or a marketing campaign. Focussing for less than 100 days, or focussing on too many things generally won’t deliver the results you need, Equally, its difficult to maintain effective focus for much longer than 100 days without re-assessing priorities.
The Next 100 Days Podcast is your source to learn how to move your business forward, with practical advice and guidance that you can put into action and make a difference in your own organisation within the next 100 days.
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