Mike Sturgess
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Mike Sturgess BSc FCA FCCA (@michaelsturgess)
Mike is the Chairman of SWAT UK Limited (www.swat.co.uk), and works with accountants to make them compliant, efficient and profitable. He provides practice management support for firms with a view to improving profitability and accountability within the firm. He has worked with managing partners to help them create written strategic plans with partner KPIs, and has undertaken a number of independent partner appraisals. He runs partner retreats, helps firms tackle specific issues such as decreasing lockup or increasing productivity and recoverability. He also heads up the SWAT UK team handling Practice Mergers and Acquisitions. He is SWAT UK’s MLRO and was involved in developing SWAT UK’s MLRO Support Service. He is the author of CCH’s MLRO Handbook and has written a number of other books and manuals for SWAT UK and for the various Institutes. Mike is an enthusiastic and entertaining speaker, who lectures widely on practice management matters, money laundering, marketing, the use of IT, and on quality and risk issues and consultancy services. He also runs in-house workshops on sales training, developing cross-selling systems, negotiating skills and other soft skills topics. Recently Mike has been helping accountants to market and sell probate services.
Mike is a past council member of ICAEW and in 2014 / 2015 Mike was the president of the ICAEW Chartered Accountants South West district.
Chairman Truro Diocesan Board of Finance Limited
7th Jun 2010
The art of successful negotiation
SWATuk’s Mike Sturgess, sets out some basic principles for effective negotiations. The biggest problem that we face in any negotiation is...
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