Andrew Tallents

Trusted Advisor | Self-Coaching Expert | Conscious Leadership Coach | Author | Motivational Speaker | Podcast Host

I help CEOs and Founders accelerate profit, purpose and performance—by transforming how they lead themselves and their teams.

For over 30 years, I’ve worked with ambitious leaders across the globe as they focused on building self-led, high-performing boards and leadership teams.

CEOs and Founders come to me when they:

Want to scale sustainably without burning out

Need their leadership team aligned and moving fast

Seek an experienced thought partner to help them think clearly


Our work together is practical and transformative. Whether through high-impact executive coaching, strategic workshops, team alignment programmes, or keynote speaking, I bring clarity, courage, and challenge to leaders who are serious about results—both personal and professional.

I'm also the author of Self-Coaching for Leaders and the creator of a growing AI-powered self-coaching movement. My approach blends insight with action, helping leaders get out of their own way so they can unlock performance in others.

If you're a CEO or Founder scaling a team, preparing for investment, or navigating complexity at the top—let’s talk.

Climate Coaching Alliance Member

The Tallents Partnership works with business leaders around the world to improve the leadership capability of their boards and senior management teams. Offering a consultative approach, we deliver a variety of world class human capital solutions through a team of experienced consultants. The Tallents Partnership believes in serving its clients at a local and global level.

✉ andrew@tallents-partnership.com
✆ +447971410954 

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Founder | Executive Coach | Leadership Coach | Board Evaluation |High Performance Teams | Coaching | Self-leadership | Cognitive Diversity| Leadership Coaching | Leadership Development

Million Dollar Sprint

At Million Dollar Sprint, we partner with service-sector entrepreneurs to scale their businesses to 1M+ in revenue with ease and efficiency. Our mission is to simplify growth by combining proven lead generation and sales conversion strategies with streamlined virtual assistant outsourcing services.

We specialise in supporting entrepreneurs in the service sector - coaches, consultants, digital marketers, HR experts, and recruitment specialists - who aim to grow their revenue while maintaining balance and clarity in their operations.

Our proven strategies help business owners achieve financial independence and long-term success. Ready to scale your business? Let’s create your Million Dollar Sprint. 🚀

Founder

Lead Gen Group

The Lead Gen Academy - Tools, short-cuts, tactics, recommended software, online plus offline Training and an incredible support community of business owners and digital marketers just like you.

WP Aid

WP Aid offers Frist Aid for your WordPress Website - we are all about hosting and supporting customer’s website assets. - we look after your Digital Crown Jewels!

Co-Founder

After being invited into the BBC Surrey studio to talk all things The Apprentice, I was delighted to be asked back for a regular Saturday morning slot to read the newspapers with top radio DJ James Cannon.

We discuss life after The Apprentice, local Surrey news and anything weird and wonderful that catches our eyes in the national papers.

BBC Surrey - Radio Presenter

I was a finalist upon BBC’s The Apprentice, Series 11 (2015) – Where I was the top seller across all tasks during the competition. 

I won 8 out of 10 tasks (second on the all-time list) and broke two Apprentice records one for most sales in one day (£4.3 million) and secondly “The best Advertising Task ever seen on The Apprentice” – Lord Sugar

BBC The Apprentice Finalist

Brooklands Radio

This was my first radio position and will always have a special place in my hart.

After extensive training by the 'Silver Fox' Graham Laycock we launched The Tricky Dicky Show

LIVE on air every Tuesdays 8.00pm to 10.00pm it was a wonderful experience sharing a great mix of modern music, bands and beats with the Dance Music sequence from 9.00pm plus conversation including Surrey Business Buzz from the world of digital marketing and business and finding out about Life After The Apprentice with fellow candidates.

Use the link below to access my sound cloud or Brooklands Radio website and listen back to some of my first ever radio shows and interviews:

https://www.mixcloud.com/richard-woods/

http://www.brooklandsradio.co.uk/theapprentice.html

Radio DJ

IT Outsourcing for your Business...

2UK is an Information Technology Outsourcing firm, offering state of the art solutions for managing the IT infrastructure of small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Established in Surrey in 2006 2UK delivers efficient and reliable managed IT services that increase productivity through advanced technologies combined with proven methodologies & processes.

2UK offers solutions such as Managed IT Services, Security Architecture and Design, Network Architecture and Design and Computer System Design, with unlimited access to Help Desk Analysts. Through our remote support services, 2UK also provides innovative technologies such as remote healing, data back up and automated software distribution along with proven strategies to increase efficiency and productivity, allowing a company to focus on their core business rather than fixing IT!

Owner

⬇️ Free LinkedIn For Breakfast Community in my Featured Section ⬇️ 

Are you a Coach, Consultant, Course Creator, or Marketing Company Owner looking to scale your business to a million in revenue? - If so, I can help. With my systematic lead generation strategies, you can focus on working with clients while I handle finding new ones.

Here's how it works: we create an online event series that's rolled out over thirteen weeks and repeated four times a year. This evergreen content strategy raises your profile and drives attendees to your weekly presentations.
From there, they become warm leads for you to convert into sales calls. Don't just take my word for it.

Here's what one of my clients had to say: "I'm proud to have found Richard Woods and his amazing program The Million Dollar Sprint. Richard has such a professional, dedicated, laser-focused, and result-driven program that he takes great pride in delivering to help his clients create their ultimate success. He truly delivers what he says. He is honest, sincere, and a true professional." - Ghazala Jabeen, No.1 Marketing Machine

So who am I? I'm Richard Woods, and I've scaled two businesses to a million in revenue and achieved lucrative exits from both. Now, I'm passionate about helping service-sector entrepreneurs achieve the same success. I've published two bestselling business books, "Digital Trailblazer" and "Brexitpreneurship," and my flair and passion for sales and marketing were highlighted during my appearance on BBC's "The Apprentice" in 2015.

My business achievements have gained recognition through several national awards, including Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Haines Watts), Key Person of Influence Award (Dent Global), and Marketing Campaign of the Year (Inspire Business Awards).

If you're interested in working with me, there are two ways I can help. First, you can join me as a guest on my complimentary weekly event, "LinkedIn For Breakfast," where we share new ideas and methods for flooding your funnel with prospects using LinkedIn. 

Here's the Link to join: https://www.skool.com/linkedin-for-breakfast

Second, FREE 1:1 LinkedIn Profile Audit
As part of our mission to provide the best free LinkedIn training and community on the planet, we're offering a limited number of FREE 1:1 sessions to audit your LinkedIn profile. These sessions are available on a first-come, first-served basis and offer help and advice on the effectiveness of your profile for lead generation and brand awareness.

https://crm.milliondollarsprint.com/linkedin-profile-audit-rrli

Richard Woods

Ready for the biggest LinkedIn shift coming in 2026, or will you miss it?

We’re unveiling the new game plan that is already driving huge weekly lead flow.

I’m breaking down our updated 'Ready For 2026 Gameplan' live inside LinkedIn For Breakfast.

This is the system we use every single week to generate a huge volume of conversations, leads, and appointments for ourselves and our clients.

You’ll learn the daily actions that drive predictable leads, including the 20 connection and 30 DM system, the posting pattern that triggers inbound messages, and the 13 Week Content Cycle that keeps your content on brand and highly engaging.

We’ll also walk you through the full behind-the-scenes workflow and show you how to turn your year into four quarters of consistent growth.

👉  Ask for the event registration link and we’ll send it to you instantly, along with five AI tools you can use to create your daily LinkedIn posts.

The AI Tools come with an explanation video on how and when to use them, just comment 'Gameplan' below.

Session details:
- LinkedIn For Breakfast
- Wednesday, 9am UK time
- Zoom meeting
- 45 minutes of action-packed 2026 marketing madness

Ready for the gameplan, the link, and the tools?

👉 Comment GAMEPLAN and we’ll send the registration link plus all six AI tools (with walkthrough video) straight to your DM.

Delegated my to-do list to race camels 🐪 & scale companies 🚀 | Helping entrepreneurs hit £1M | Award-Winning Founder | 3x Bestselling Author | BBC Apprentice Finalist

What changed everything for me wasn’t another tool, funnel, or tactic.

It was finally having a CEO Dashboard and a few part-time VAs behind me.

Since building that system, something unexpected happened.

I found days in my diary with no appointments, and weeks where I set the agenda.

Next week is a perfect example.

- I will be back in Dubai, recording a podcast with the amazing Lisa Hugo.
- I will be meeting my Dubai management and accounting teams.
- I will be scoping future event locations for Million Dollar Sprint.

And while I am there, there is one thing that allows me to rest easy.

👉 The CEO Dashboard and my VA team.

Not only do they keep things moving, but they grow the business while I’m 3,000 miles away.

Our social media exec keeps the content engine running, our telephone appointment setters book meetings for our closers, and our success team looks after clients so results continue whether I’m in the country or not.

These are the exact types of roles we help clients build.

It all started for me with one part-time VA four years ago, Flora Aboyewa.

Today the internal MDS team is 12 people, including my designer and video editor, both half-time, giving me one full-time ninja resource between them.

If that’s where my journey began, I want to help you start yours with a half-time VA too.

Which brings me to something important.

This Black Friday, we are opening a small number of spaces for our VA + AI + CEO Dashboard Package.

Here is what you get:
 ✔ A trained Virtual Assistant working 4 hours per day, 5 days a week
 ✔ Someone who uses our 60-plus AI tools to help run your business
 ✔ A UK-based Success Manager supporting you
 ✔ Daily reporting and weekly CEO dashboards
 ✔ Full onboarding now, so you start 2026 with momentum

Spaces are genuinely limited because these are real people who go through our own VA Academy, and we only have a set number who have completed training.

If you would like the info pack, comment INFO PACK below, and my team will send it straight over.

To more time, more impact, and more freedom.

Richard Woods on CEO Dashboards and Outsourcing VA's

Are you looking for a way to connect authentically with your audience, build trust, and generate more business?

Business growth is built on trust, visibility, and engagement and LinkedIn Live is one of the most effective ways to achieve all three. Yet, so many business owners aren’t using it or don’t know where to start.

That’s why we’re hosting a free, high-impact session to show you exactly how to leverage LinkedIn Live.

Here are some of the key takeaways you can expect from this event:

▶️How to Turn views into clients: Showcase your expertise and attract the right audience

▶️How to Increase engagement & conversions: Live videos capture attention, spark conversations, and drive action

▶️Build credibility fast: Real-time interactions create trust and position you as the go-to expert

▶️Stand out in your industry: While most businesses rely on static posts, you’ll be leading the conversation

Limited Seats available, join me and other experts this coming Wednesday at 9am UK time for 45 minutes of action pack live adventure.

Grab your place here: https://lnkd.in/dWvuTEm6

View event: The Power of Real-Time Engagement using LinkedIn Live

The Power of Real-Time Engagement using LinkedIn Live

LinkedIn live a great tool, but are we using it to it full capacity?

 #Linkedinlive #LinkedIntips #LinkedInhacks

Do you use LinkedIn live successfully (explain why or give some tips in the chat)

The author can see how you vote. Learn more

An awesome demo for awesome business owners! 

🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://lnkd.in/d-rynku2

Yesterday, we walked through exactly how to go live on LinkedIn and why it’s one of the most effective ways to build trust, increase visibility, and attract the right clients.

Here’s what we covered:

👉 Why LinkedIn Live matters: the visibility boost, the trust factor, and why live content outperforms static posts.
 
👉 How to set up and go live on LinkedIn: step-by-step guidance so you can get started with confidence.
 
👉 How to structure your live sessions: what to say, how to keep people engaged, and how to turn viewers into conversations.
 
👉 How to increase engagement & conversions: simple ways to encourage interaction and drive action during your lives.
 
👉 How to present with confidence: real tips to help you show up naturally and authentically.

It was a practical, down-to-earth session with plenty of “do this next” steps for anyone who wants to use LinkedIn Live properly.

If you’d like the replay, just comment REPLAY below and I’ll send it over.

Most founders spend their days fixing fires, chasing leads, and managing people… but never actually running the business. In this video, I showed the 

Open article: How to Build a Business That Runs Without You – The CEO Dashboard by Richard Woods • 1 min read

How to Build a Business That Runs Without You – The CEO Dashboard

Which way are your prices going? - what ideas or tactics have you been wrestling with on this one (do share in the comments)

#pricingstrategy #inflationstrategies #businessstrategy

With everything that is happening in the world, what will you do with your pricing strategy in 2026?

I built a Free AI tool that instantly optimises your old YouTube videos to increase visibility and watch time, thus getting more juice from the squeeze! - want the link?

Most of us overlook these tiny tweaks and lose thousands of views.

This tool catches them all and fixes them for you.

You just paste your video’s title and description, and it gives you:

- 5 stronger title ideas (with better click-through potential)
- 2 thumbnail concepts that grab attention
- A rewritten description that hooks viewers fast
- SEO-friendly tags + internal link suggestions
- A clear checklist your VA can follow to update everything in YouTube Studio

The best thing is that you can hand it to your VA to optimise all your old YouTube videos, no extra effort from you.

No guesswork. No fluff. Just more views.

👇 Comment “more views” and I’ll send you the free training video + link to the GPT.





#YouTubeGrowth #ContentStrategy #VideoMarketing #CreatorTools #YouTubeTips

#YouTubeGrowth
#ContentStrategy
#VideoMarketing
#CreatorTools
#YouTubeTips

Loved recording this one. It was one of the most honest and open conversations I have had in a long time. If you want the real story behind my journey, this podcast covers it. - Thank you to Paul Avins and the awesome Creative Content Studio Limited

#entrepreneurship #businessgrowth #founderstory #scalingbusiness #leadership

New Grown Up Business Podcast dropping this week with Richard Woods and it was an amazingly honest and real conversation about…

✅ His family upbringing and how it shaped him as an Entrepeneur 💜

✅ His time on the Apprentice Show and why comming Second was better than winning! 👏🏻

✅ His secrets for scaling an Exiting multiple companies that you can apply to your business 😎

✅ His exactly strategy for Winning New clients on LinkedIn and why most people fail on here 😱

✅ How he’s grown his Team from 5 to 154 people in just 12 months!! 🤯 

I really live these 2hr grown up conversations and can’t wait to share this one with you.

Look out for the Trailer as I have a feeling David Ebarle is going to make this one EPIC..🙏🏼

Link to the most recent shows in the comments 👇

PA
#businesspodcast #businessgrowth #growthhacking #linkedinmarketing #ceocoach

If you are serious about grabbing attention on LinkedIn and controlling your pipeline next year, yesterday’s live session was a strong place to start.

We covered a lot, but here are 3 of the many highlights from the session:

• How the LinkedIn Boost Button will change reach
• The 2-step CTA post format that is driving daily inbound leads
• Current affairs content that cuts through the noise

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐧.

If you want all of this implemented for you, you can take one of the last remaining spaces in our VA + AI Package and have a trained VA run your content, outreach, admin, and CRM every day using our 60+ AI tools.

The VA would work for you 4 hours per day x 5 days a week, every week.

£257 covers the rest of 2025, then £100 per week from January.

Only a few spaces left.

👉 If you want the replay and the info pack, comment 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘 and I’ll send them to you directly.

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