Independent Business

The Institute for Independent Business

Jon Stow is an accredited Executive Associate of the Institute for Independent Business.

The Institute for Independent Business (IIB), a not-for-profit business support organisation established in 1984 to give independent businesses direct access to some of the country’s top business people. The IIB is the largest of its type in Europe with over 3,000 senior Executive Associates accredited to serve small to medium sized enterprises (SME) in acting as a sounding board for people running SMEs.

IIB Executive Associates are some of the most experienced business people in the UK, mostly having held some of the top positions in many of world’s top companies. A couple of hours simple chat with these Executives Associates normally leaves the business owners full of new found enthusiasm and ideas for their businesses, having been given practical advice and suggestions for taking their business forward and for overcoming problems they may have been facing. Furthermore, with the IIB Executive Associate able to draw on one of the largest and most comprehensive support infrastructures in the world to advise and assist UK companies, literally any issue arising within any aspect of the business can be addressed.

Jon will lend a friendly ear to business people in Essex and beyond needing someone to sound off to, as for more than twenty-five years he has been involved in working with the SME sector, helping small business owners realise their financial needs and fulfil their business ambitions.