Born in Hastings, but fortunate enough to be exposed to multiple cultures and experiences as a child having been brought up in Kenya, Tanzania, and Nigeria until a teenager, educated in Leicester, Mike has never been satisfied with a routine lifestyle, always looking to try something new, and his clients benefit from this outward looking expansive attitude.
Spending time with his only child Daniel is most important to him, but sport remains important with skiing, golf and tennis taking priority as hobbies.
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Mike Ogilvie is an experienced Chartered Accountant by training. However, although he owns Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers OBC The Accountants, most of his time is focused on his work as one of UK's leading Profit Coaches, with his company The Profit Team.
Mike is a
Master Practitioner of Neuro-linguistic programming, and was a founding Director of The Association of Profit Advisers. When he is not using his skills and experience to help his clients to focus on increasing their profitability,
he is an international motivational speaker talking at Conferences and Seminars in UK and abroad where, among other thngs, he inspires his audience to adopt a Profit Culture in their businesses.
After a conference in Llubljana in Slovenia, Michael was compared favourably by organizer Robert Rolih with top American speakers Brian Tracy and Chet Holmes and leading English speaker Geoff Burch.
Apart from being a professional speaker, Mike and his team do offer additional business improvement services, and after a recent conference in Tehran Mike was asked to extend his visit to undertake additional assignments with Iranian businesses.
Mike's work experience as a Chartered Accountant and Profit Coach (
www.theprofitteam.com) has spanned three decades with different sized businesses ranging from a top ten national firm to 20 man OBC The Accountants he currently has in Eastbourne (
www.obcaccountants.com)
Working primarily as a Profit Coach and International Speaker, Michael's clients benefit from his experience, using him extensively for non-exec work.
Read more in the BLOG about some of the experiences in his childhood that have had a major impact on Michael's thoughts and actions.