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It’s time to take action with advice you can trust.
Private advisory groups for MDs,
executives and business owners.

2. Vistage International (UK) Limited, Vanbrugh House, Grange Drive, Hedge End, Hampshire, SO30 2AF | Company Registration No. 2341022
Tel: +44 (0) 1489 770200 | Email: enquiries@vistage.co.uk | Web: www.vistage.co.uk
What is Vistage
Simon Walsh – Vistage Chair Group V353
Since 1957, Vistage has been improving the effectiveness and enhancing
the lives of business leaders by bringing together successful MDs, CEOs,
executives and business owners into private advisory groups.
In a Vistage group, about a dozen executives meet
regularly to discuss their challenges, evaluate
opportunities and solve an assortment of strategic,
operational and sometimes personal issues.
Put twelve or so high performing business executives
in a room and the potential is enormous. The role of a
Vistage Chair is to ensure that every bit of experience
and wisdom is applied in each Vistage meeting. Our
Chairs are accomplished leaders (many are former
MDs or CEOs). They are part facilitator, part coach and
are committed to the success of their group members.
To maintain the momentum that group meetings
provide, Vistage members are also supported by one
to one coaching, access to leading expert speakers,
bespoke best practice materials and an online
community of over 21,000 members worldwide.
To find out why Vistage works and enables business
leaders like you to get answers and take action,
contact us today.
We enhance the lives of CEOs and MDs of larger SME businesses.
Created for passionate executives running SME businesses who want to tackle their issues and improve both
their business results and their own leadership skills. This programme brings together business leaders from a
diverse range of non-competing industries to solve problems, develop more effective strategies and explore
new opportunities.
Whatever your obstacle – it could be anything from managing business growth, maintaining competitive
advantage, or even making a difference to your work/life balance; your Vistage CE Group will help you to
identify and implement new solutions.

3. Since joining Vistage I’ve
developed more as a leader and as
a person then I have done in the
previous ten years combined.
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Adrian Welch
Sales Director at Techo UK
MDs AND CEOs
How Can You Keep Your Company
Moving Forward?
Open to executives running larger
SME businesses, this programme
brings together business leaders from
a diverse range of non-competing
industries to solve problems, develop
strategies and keep moving forward.
SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS
How can you rise above everyday
operations and focus on the future?
Join other small business leaders who
share your goals and challenges, to
tackle obstacles, develop innovative
strategies and actively move your
business forward.
DIRECTORS AND MANAGERS
As a top Executive, how can you
bring more to the table?
Designed for key executives, this
programme helps you develop the
skills and confidence to take initiative,
help your MD/CEO overcome
challenges, and start thinking and
acting like an MD yourself.
CHAIRS AND GROUPS
In our groups, about a dozen executives meet
once a month to solve problems, evaluate
opportunities and work on an assortment of
strategic and operational issues
MY VISTAGE
Our online community, My Vistage, enables
members to connect between group meetings, tap
into the broader international Vistage community
and access bespoke best practice materials.
VISTAGE EVENTS
Vistage events are focused on ensuring that
delegates get actionable takeaway value, not just
information, which can be used immediately to
keep their companies moving forward.
EXPERT SPEAKERS
Engage and gain valuable insight from expert,
Vistage accredited speakers in a small group
setting.
BEST BUSINESS COACHES
Each month you and your Chair will have a
private, one to one session designed to help
you identify your most important needs and
opportunities.
Vistage group types
What we offer

4. With 30 years’ corporate
experience, a strong
entrepreneurial streak and a habit
of delivering exceptional growth,
Simon now focuses his time on
helping other business leaders
make the improvements and
changes they seek.
Simon has held senior
management positions for over
20 years. He has built his skills and
experience within diverse sectors
spanning Financial Services,
Business Services, Telecoms and
Consumer Electronics, working
within world class organisations
such as Prudential, Lloyds Bank
Group, Orange and Samsung.
Simon has lead large, diverse,
multi-functional teams, launching
new businesses and product
categories and delivering
outstanding growth levels and
brand value.
Early in his career he started his
own contract cleaning business,
built a strong blue chip client base
and, after three years, sold it as a
thriving business. There he learned
the hard way what it is really like
to run your own business and
how lonely it can be at the top!
He has said that had he known
about Vistage then, he would have
definitely joined.
With expertise in both B2B and
B2C channels, Simon played an
important role in the growth of
both the Orange and Samsung
brands in the UK having joined
both very early in their UK
corporate lives, thriving on the
small business mentality and
building the business he was
responsible for, to a turnover of
over £1bn pa.
More recently, Simon launched
a profitable new retail business,
helped bring smartphone leasing
to the UK and has provided
transformational consultancy
services to a number of UK
businesses.
Simon is married and has
three children. He is a keen
photographer, a school governor
and Junior Rugby coach at
Winchester RFC. He loves to learn
new skills, believes anything is
achievable once one decides to
do it and loves spending time with
family and friends, watching sport
and listening to and playing music.
Your Vistage Group Chairman
Simon Walsh
Group
V353 – Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire
Mob: +44 (0) 7788 978298
E-mail: simon.walsh@vistagechair.co.uk
57 Romsey Road, Winchester
Hampshire, SO22 5DE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonwalsh1
www.vistage.co.uk/simon-walsh
Vistage UK
Vanbrugh House, Grange Drive,
Hedge End, Hampshire, SO30 2AF
Tel: +44 (0) 1489 770200
www.vistage.co.uk
I have been a Vistage
speaker for five years and
always felt I was missing
out. When I decided to
join Vistage as a member,
I couldn’t have known or
imagined just how much
I would get out of it.
Jo Haigh
Vistage member
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