active, advice led innovation

Lord Chesterfield: "Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least." 

So let's ADVISE.

Steve Jobs: "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." 

So let's INNOVATE. 

Benjamin Disraeli: "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." 

So let's ACT. 

You can interpret a dataset to support any position. 

To turn data in two information you need CONTEXT.

Information is useful but it is the starting point not the conclusion. You need to add RESEARCH. 

Knowledge is a very handy tool but even then it can mislead. The final part of the jigsaw is EXPERIENCE. 

Wisdom lets you know that whilst a tomato is a fruit, it doesn't go in the fruit salad. 

At Dermot McKeever, we love turning data in to wisdom. We start with finding out about you, your business, and crucially, how we can remove the barriers between you and your vision. 

Once we have had time to look at your metrics, we can deliver the insights that marry your ambition with your abilities. 

Our active advice stance means we don't want to provide reports and host meetings. We want to use our extensive ecosystem of expertise to help you ACT. 

When a business, an organisation, a sports team or  indeed a country fails, it's always, always down to the leadership. Always. My book, "The Leadership Formula" available on Kindle is a helpful guide to getting it right. 

 We currently spend more on sustainability reporting than sustainability action. 

We help businesses ACT on the 5 R's 

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Repurpose. Regenerate. And we mean ACT not  report. 

Purpose. Strategy. Tactics. Action. But the one ring to rule them all is FUNDING. We will help. 

Working with our strategic partner, Clarendon Square Advisory, we can help you get your business ready for sale and get you the right price. They  have more than 50 years of combined experience delivering for their clients. 

The democratisation of savings. An online investment platform using low cost ETF's to put professional money management within the grasp of everyone. We helped the founder, Nick Hungerford, to get the platform up and running. 

Shell used our expertise in the solar space to help them create their strategy for the UK. We explored numerous possibilities for both both roof top and ground mount solar installations. 

Barnett Waddingham are a highly regarded actuarial consultancy based in the UK. We prepared an analysis of the IFA market in the UK to help with their focus in this area. This analysis was based on our relationships across the wealth management sector. 

BIF are a successful corporate finance house specialising in the residential and commercial sectors in the UK. Using our extensive network, we introduced them to numerous business opportunities leading to significant revenues. 

LWC has an enviable reputation for delivery within the UK house builder sector. They supply and fit thousands of white goods every year working with all the top building companies. We worked with them, as their corporate adviser, as they more than doubled their turnover and tripled their profit. 

Michael Ambrose is a chartered Independent Financial Adviser working across the Midlands. We provided an advisory function covering marketing, strategy, succession planning and exit strategies.  

We acted as an expert witness for this global business to help with their relationship with one of their local distributors.