David Butler
Partner
Top 3 Skills
About Me
I live in a wonderful part of Rochdale a truly lovely place on the edge of the Pennines, giving me a wonderful work/life balance.
Back in 2018, over 7- days, a viral infection took all my hearing, so now a cochlear implant cyborg dealing, as I am told, admirably with the barriers it brings. Deafness brings lots of barriers, but nothing that I let hold me back.
In fact it lets me use my technical know-how to help myself and others using my life-long passion for creating solutions and problem solving.
Qualifications & Accreditations
I started my career as an electronics and mechanical engineer, so have HND and HNC in both skills.
However, my real expertise has been gained through experience, being at the coal face as it were, resolving real world problems. So if you are looking for letters and qualifications, I’m probably not the person for you.
My love of mentoring has been rally rewarding as I have helped many entrepreneurs take their business ideas to profitable businesses.
I am a mentor for the Help to Grow programme and a member of the ABM mentoring group to.
I have been very fortunate to have seen many parts of the world, gaining a mass of experience through being part of two highly successful OEM machinery start-ups that pioneered and brought to market innovative weighing, inspection and automation machinery for the food and process industries.
I have developed a wide techno-commercial awareness through designing and bringing to market innovative weighing and inspection equipment. Being involved with every aspect from initial concept, setting up departments and processes, growing the business and looking after a worldwide customer base and supplier network.
As such I bring over 30-years breadth of experience that I can help you deliver your business needs.
I provide training, audits and services that improves sales, reduces costs and improves employee wellbeing for OEM machinery manufacturers, and other SME sectors. My services include:
To provide professional business support and to help individuals further their career prospects through greater independency.
Business support
Project management
Process improvements
Technical documentation creation/updating
Website accessibility reports to increase SEO
Communication accessibility reports to enhance employee wellbeing
Workplace assessments for assistive technologies
Hearing training for the over 50s to enhance employee wellbeing
Hearing test screening for HSE compliance
Start-up and entrepreneur support and mentoring
Resolutions for an manufacturing / process issues
Improve employee wellbeing and reduce loosing staff from early retirement
Getting the right business support that you and your business needs so important. We can never be experts in every field, so by engaging the right professional who can look at the bigger picture to truly understand what is needed, will deliver the right results for you and your business.
My expertise lies in seeing the bigger picture to enable me to deliver the right solution. I build relationships across the business spectrum from the grass roots through to business owners to ensure the deliverables are understood and met.
Furthermore, I have a passion for helping others by using my expertise to help others living with disability and impairments. Finding the right solutions that breakdown the barriers to work. This has also led me to providing support to the VCSE sector supporting a deaf charity and co-running a local def group.