Testimonials for Chris Brooks

“Chris is one of the best people I have ever worked with.He is equally capable in Company-wide ( CEO/GM) and Sales and Marketing Director roles, a strong leader who, unusually, works as a team player and is one of the best listeners I have met. He readily both seeks and takes advice from others whatever their position in an organisational ‘hierarchy’. His background in Sales and Marketing means that everything he does starts from an understanding of what the customer needs. Chris has a passion for both delivering ‘good goods’ and building strong teams.

He sometimes seems powered by a secret stash of energy, drive, and commitment. Fortunately, for us mere mortals, these traits are balanced by his kind, warm, open and engaging personality. I rarely write recommendations. I am sad to write this one because it means that I will no longer be working with him on a regular basis. I have learnt so much from Chris and would recommend that if you have the opportunity to work with him – grab it with both hands.”

Mike Cribb, Chairman, Quantiv Ltd

“Christian volunteered to help EMERGE recently. I found his input to be incisive, highly intelligent, agile and intuitively reassuring. Initially as a result of his keen interest in waste recycling and sustainability issues he offered to help me, as CEO, in terms of sales and marketing management. The need to focus on this increased following our merger with another recycling company late in 2013 when the founder of the acquired company took on a role focusing on the commercial side of the business. During this time the development of a joint working culture had also been proving challenging over a number of months.

Chris is a very sophisticated communicator, he puts others at ease within seconds, and is able to talk quickly and effectively about this issues at hand, with depth and certainty whilst equally leaving scope for others to have their say. Within the space of a couple of hours, we had ‘outed’ issues which had hampered our professional relationship and moved swiftly on to suggestions about how we might manage operational things differently, both strategically and specifically in terms of sales performance. My new colleague moved from being resistant to having the meeting (at the outset) to being bowled over, describing the outcome as a ‘revelation’! Most importantly from my perspective, we jointly agreed on a method, proposed by Chris, for managing sales which my colleague recognised the value of and agreed to embrace. Consequently, my colleague requested further support from Chris on Business Development and Sales matters, which I’m delighted to say, he’s agreed to do.

Chris also came with an impressive recommendation from Mike, (his CEO at Quantiv) who described him as “one of the best marketeers” Mike has known. I have not been disappointed. Chris supported the redevelopment of our website, advising us with equal ease about technical and marketing related aspects. Going forward I hope to get his input to our Group Marketing Plans, which are still in development and would benefit enormously from his expert opinion and warm, affirmative yet discerning perspective.”

Lucy Danger, Managing Director

“Chris has an infectious enthusiasm with a drive and determination to succeed. He can be relied upon to act with integrity, gives 100% and is enjoyable to work with .”

Derek Steele, CEO, Mobysoft Ltd

Testimonials for Rachel Brooks

“Rachel  has worked with my company as a consultant for almost 2 years. She quickly developed an understanding of the way in which the business functioned as well as our aims and ambitions. Rachel’s brief was to take this knowledge and help to create a strategy which would help us to achieve these ambitions and more importantly a way in which it could be done. She has certainly done this exceeding all of our expectations. Rachel’s involvement with Swimtime has also enabled us to improve our “bottom line”. She weighs up options without the emotional ties which founding partners inevitibly have and we are certainly delighted to have her working with us.  I recommend Rachel Brooks to whoever is reading this. If you want to know any more, please contact me directly. ”

Barry Price, Managing Director, Swimtime UK

“We have worked together with Rachel for some time now, and have found that she is hard working and can be relied on to deliver. Her attention to detail and her ability to adapt to most business scenarios is one of her best assets.”

Dave Shipston, Big Pig Design