Adrian Ashton's slide prompts for the 7 minutes he was invited to speak for at the Antz online networking event http://www.antzuk.com/

2. #NotYourTypicalConsultant
(what it takes, and how you can be more of the
human you want to be in your enterprises)
www.adrianashton.co.uk
(and most social media channels)

3. The corporate CV
• Support with business/financial plans (that are recognised by banks and
investors as ‘the best we’ve seen in a long time’)
• The person behind other advisers in the sector
• Influence national policy and legislation (‘accidentally’ changed CIC
governance rules)
• Developed some of the national toolkits on impact reporting
• Get accountants fired through helping groups understand, and get more
confident with, their bookkeeping and accounts
• Learning programmes held us as exemplars by international colleges (and
‘heal’ people of dyscalculia…)
• International and national awards

5. What people seem to enjoy
• Always try to find someone else who’ll pay me on your behalf
• Over £8,000 of pro bono last year
• Only freelance consultant globally to openly publish annual impact report
on themselves
• Always seeking to make myself redundant
• Always make sure a 6-year old can understand it
• Seen as ‘Spider-man’ (for the ‘webs’ of connections, rather than spandex…)
• World naked gardening / naked working day…
• Maxing the amount of tax I pay, rather than trying to minimise it
• People creating hashtags on twitter about me
• Christmas cards sent through the post each year

6. • We don’t have to confine the way we work to other
people’s rules or conform to their expectations -
‘professional’ is whatever we decide it is
• We’re all just as scared and unsure as each other
• Let’s treat each other more as human beings – it’s not B2C
or B2B, but H2H