ANNA IRVING & CO
Small to medium businesses and particularly family businesses are unique. No two are the same, nor would we want them to be. We celebrate this and respond with agility and knowledge gained from many years of hands on experience.
Through unique expertise in connecting the right people, true business understanding and heartfelt support, Anna Irving & Co is on a mission to strengthen SME and family businesses.
About
Anna Irving & Co have two main offerings:
Advisory - covering all aspects of Family Businesses including succession, transition and exit planning
People (formerly SME People & SME Recruit) - delivering people expertise to SME’s (small medium enterprises) and Family Businesses
With 10+ years of consulting in our space, we truly understand the 'dynamics' and 'complexities' of growing a privately owned enterprise. We have proven 'people strategies' to align your business ownership with confidence. That's why we help create a custom plan to create stability for your business and shareholders/family.
We're passionate about 'resourcing for growth' and enabling business owners to grow their people's capability. This includes: recruitment, organisation design, succession, governance, capability assessment, alignment and more..
Family Connection
SMEs run in the family. Anna is the proud daughter and Founding Business Partner of David Irving who founded The ICEHOUSE (SME Business Growth Hub) back in 2001, her husband, twin sister and brother-in-law all own their own businesses. Anna has an affinity and dedication for family business that is tangible, real and infectious.
Business Partners - Anna and David Irving
Testimonials
“Like many family SME’s our business doesn’t operate an HR department or even and full time HR resource, however we still face the same challenges of managing our resources, and in our situation planning for family succession.
Anna was highly recommended to us as a expert who could assist us in developing our strategy. Anna very quickly understood our business, what we were trying to achieve and identified some of the challenges we faced. Through Anna’s knowledge and guidance we have been able to develop a future succession plan while ensuring the business is not distracted from it’s core day to day operations. As GM of the business it has been great to draw on Anna’s significant external expertise to help me develop a clear strategy ensuring the right approach to succession has been developed for our business.
I found Anna very approachable , professional and very easy to deal with . Anna will continue to be part of our succession journey as I will be regularly drawing on her expertise and guidance.”
“SME People have provided an excellent, value for money service in recruitment for our growing company. The have assisted in several key hires for our business and we have recommended them to many of our project partners”
“As a family owned & operated SME, the recruitment of a new General Manager to bring their external experience to affect positive change and promote growth, was always going to be a complicated appointment.
Anna provided a unique recruitment method that went far beyond just finding a candidate to do the role. In a very holistic approach, she brought in some additional expertise to help the Founder and departing GM scope exactly what the role needed to look like, what effect this might have on the existing team, and how to best structure the role to provide a successful transition. I can confidently recommend Anna for assisting with key roles within any business.”