Chris Baron

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT CHRIS BARON

A strategic and commercial business leader with a proven track record leading and developing large scale multi-disciplined operations in the leisure industry. Immediately available for consultancy/ Non Executive Director role. Passionately focused on success built though a team where everyone felt valued through personal development, continuous coaching and ensured a culture was embedded that allowed people to deliver at their best with autonomy and responsibility. Key Strengths · Ensuring consistent year on year profit growth by applying very strong financial skills along-side commercially focused analytical skills · Consistently delivering growth and the highest Net Promoter and Employee Net Promoter Score in the group through leading and energising teams to deliver a great customer expe-rience and maximise their full potential. · Delivering high customer satisfaction and repeat spend in a low-cost model. · Delivering many large multi-million pound projects and ensuring they delivered returns that exceeded expectations. · Leading and managing change and Organisational Design reviews, ensuring the skills of the team are maximised. · Developing mutually beneficial long term internal and external relationships through excel-lent inter personal, communication and negotiation skills. · Understands the importance when managing businesses of strategic importance to the lo-cal economy that we should be involved in developing a strategy to build a better sense of place e.g. Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership Director, Town Bid Vice Chair-man for Skegness and Mablethorpe, Vice Chairman of Visit East Lincolnshire BID, Chairman of Greater Lincolnshire Visitor Economy Board etc