Nigel Brooks' biography in his own words

I am lucky to have had a very interesting and diverse career as an entrepreneur,

business enterprise owner, management consultant, executive, author, and motivational speaker.

I began my entrepreneurial endeavors when I was fifteen.

From my bedroom in North London, England, I organized a poetry competition, and collected poems from all over the world.

I subsequently published a collection of the best as a book entitled: “Versewise – A collection of poems.”

I became fascinated with computers when the industry was called “data processing,”

and spent many years building operational and analytical systems in the

distribution, financial services, high-tech, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, retail, wholesale, and government industries.

By building transaction processing and management information systems, I understood how enterprises worked.

By working in the financial services industry, I understood how entire industries worked and fitted together,

because every enterprise has a relationship with at least one financial institution.

Because I worked in many countries around the world, and many of the systems that I built were related to

foreign exchange, import/export, and shipping and distribution, I understood how global commerce worked.

The genesis of the ideas for Enterpriship BLDer began in 1986,

when I wrote a position paper that contained a model that shows how a commercial bank works.

That paper was based upon some ideas that I had formulated while developing

strategic and information technology planning and development methodologies.

The paper described a hypothetical bank, the banking industry at large,

and relationships between a bank and both its consumer and commercial customers.

At about the same time, I wrote a series of articles for the magazine of the Bank Administration Institute (www.bai.org)

(Bank Administration later Banking Strategies), as a contributing editor,

that presented an outlook for the future of information technology in the global banking industry.

I wrote an article entitled “Strategic Issues for Financial Services Marketing,”

which was first published in 1987 in the United States, and in 1989 in the United Kingdom,

that discussed forces driving change in the banking, insurance, and securities industries,

and the implications for market segmentation, product development, and delivery channels.

This article helped many financial institutions around the world apply the concepts of

demographics and psychographics to their customer databases.

These articles shaped my thinking about the structure of industries.

During my tenure with Andersen (now Accenture: www.accenture.com) and Booz Allen Hamilton (now Booz & Company: www.booz.com),

I worked with many enterprises in the development of business and technology strategy.

I understood how enterprises worked and behaved from the inside and from the top.

Because I was an agent of change, I learned how individuals reacted to change, both favorably and unfavorably, and whether welcomed or not.

I began to understand what is referred to in this ebook as “Personal Styles.”

At American Express (www.americanexpress.com), I learned the importance of values and quality, first as a customer,

then as a client of mine, and later as a member of senior management.

In 1995, I opened my own retail and food service enterprise to apply much of what I had learned in the corporate world

to a small enterprise from the inside out.

(www.bldsolutions.com/javacentralemetrocenter)

My objective was to combine my large enterprise management experience with small enterprise ownership experience.

as a basis for returning later to management consulting.

I worked with both Accenture and Booz Allen while at American Express,

and American Express was a client of my food service enterprise (both individuals and the company itself).

Five years later, I sold my award-winning enterprise to return to management consulting,

applying my local-to-global experience with entrepreneurs, lifestyle enterprise owners, executives, and managers

in start-ups to large corporations.

Over time, I had become familiar with many personality tests.

From 2000 to 2008, I provided “project-based” consulting through The Business Leadership Development Corporation.

From 2008, I provide seminars through BLD's The Center for Business Leadership Development.

I developed a new set of models, methodologies, and tools for strategic planning, deployment and execution,

and performance measurement that is packaged as Enterpriship BLDer.

This set of intellectual capital provides a systematized approach to enterprise building,

and has been used on client engagements from 2000 to the present time.

I have been lucky to pick-up variations of my name during my travels.

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