Blogs
Vani Malik Consulting Achieves CPD Accreditation: A Mark of Excellence in Professional Development
At Vani Malik Consulting, we’re proud to share an exciting milestone our organisation has officially received CPD Accreditation from The CPD Group, one of the UK’s leading and most trusted accreditation bodies for Continuing Professional Development. What Does CPD...
Switching Systems – Hardware and Software
Change is inevitable, they say. Except in the office, where “change” usually means confusion, chaos, and at least one person muttering darkly about “the good old system that worked perfectly fine.” Nowhere is this more evident than when a business decides to switch...
The Comfort of Confusion: Why Some Businesses Stay Stuck (and Don’t Even Know It)
“Clarity can be confronting. It shows you what’s really going on and sometimes, we’d rather not look.” Every consultant eventually learns this: most businesses aren’t paralysed by lack of talent, technology, or opportunity. They’re paralysed by confusion and, more...
Noticing the Signs: Why Every Big Problem Starts Small
“Disasters rarely happen suddenly. They’re built one ignored warning at a time.” Every major business problem I’ve seen, from failing projects to frustrated customers to entire systems grinding to a halt, had one thing in common. The signs were there. They were...
Networking and lunch – Teamwork – Tuesday 14 October 2025 NEEB
On Tuesday the 14th of October, we attended a group networking event at the Wivenhoe House Hotel, a very impressive venue. The networking event was hosted by The Consortium, who provide businesses with support services, such as mentoring, workshops, training,...
Choosing the Right Location for Your Retail Business
In my years of doing Marketing, I’ve noted that on many occasions, location can be the life or death of a business. Success and failure can be completely reliant on where you set up, so it’s really important to take your location into account when deciding where you...
Simplify Before You Scale — The Secret to Sustainable Growth
“Complexity is the enemy of execution.” - Tony Robbins Every leader dreams of scaling. More customers. More revenue. More reach. But here’s the truth no one tells you: if you scale complexity, you don’t create growth - you create chaos at speed. Scaling is seductive....
SEO and the Customer Journey
If you’re a website owner, there’s almost no chance you’ve gone through an entire week without having at least one SEO specialist contacting you. I’ve been a specialist for many years now and I’ve never had to do outreach because that’s what being a good specialist...
The Hidden Cost of Firefighting: Why Quick Fixes Fail in Business
“The urgent is rarely important, and the important is rarely urgent.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower If you’ve ever ended your week exhausted, wondering why your to-do list looks suspiciously the same as it did on Monday, you may already know this truth: you’re running a fire...
Death by Dashboard: Why More Data Doesn’t Mean More
How leaders drown in reports while starving for insight, and how to fix it. “If you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything.” – Ronald Coase Most businesses don’t suffer from a lack of data. They suffer from an overdose. Every Monday morning, leaders...
