The Value Agenda

The financial picture is never the whole picture. In this episode, Oliver Colling sits down with Susan Moor, who leads the transitions practice at FRP Transitions and has spent 15 years placing turnaround professionals into distressed businesses. They talk about how the profession has changed, why the best interventions start with operations not finance, when a team beats a single operator, and wh...

Premier League clubs have until the end of the 2025-26 season to phase out gambling shirt sponsors. From summer 2026 they are banned entirely. Some clubs have been generating £20 to £25 million a year from those deals. The replacement market is a buyer's market and every sponsor knows it. The clubs that treat this as a commercial opportunity rather than a revenue loss will come out ahead. The...

In this episode of The Value Agenda, Oliver Colling sits down with Milly Camley, Chief Executive of the Institute for Turnaround, to explore what the turnaround profession really looks like today  and why so many businesses wait far too long to ask for help.  Drawing on 25 years of IFT history, a membership of the UK's most experienced turnaround practitioners, and a front-row seat to rising...

In this episode of The Value Agenda, Oliver Colling sits down with Kingsgate Chairman Steve Swayne to unpack how distress really develops inside organisations  and what experienced operators look for long before insolvency is on the table. Drawing on decades of work across private equity, healthcare, manufacturing and retail, Steve focuses on the practical realities of stabilising a business when...

In the first episode of The Value Agenda, Oliver Colling sits down with Kingsgate Chairman Steve Swayne to talk about what really determines whether a turnaround succeeds. Steve has spent decades working inside distressed organisations across private equity, healthcare, manufacturing and retail. The conversation focuses on the practical realities of stabilising a business when pressure is building...