The majority of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) operate in relative isolation without the networks of contacts, information and support services that are available to larger companies. As the managing director or owner of an SME you are expected to know everything, keep up with everything and do everything yourself. In addition to that it is difficult to ‘know what it is you don't know’.

Most organisations that offer business support and information are inaccessible to SMEs. The Institute for Independent Business, founded in 1984, addresses this by offering a single point through which directors of SMEs can obtain relevant practical advice and hands-on support from experienced business people that have “been there and lived to tell the tale”.

The Institute consists of a network of over 2000 senior executives from any and every profession, background and industry imaginable. The Institute’s Executive Associates are mature business people who have been chief executives, managing directors or board directors themselves, and have experienced first hand the pressures, stresses and joys of running a business. Many have founded, run and eventually sold their own businesses and others have run some of the best-known corporations in the world.

Besides thorough business experience and expertise, the background of the Institute's Executive Associates also gives them a vast network of contacts in the UK and international business world that they can call on to help the businesses they support.

For more information, please visit the website of the Institute for Independent Business.

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