Welcome to the 1st episode of The Change Troubleshooter, a brand new podcast from Nina Dar, founder of Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions Management Consultancy that created “A Human Approach to Innovation and Change” and author of Transform Your Business. 

Since setting up Cheeky Monkey in 2004, Nina has been helping companies achieve their goals in some of the most exciting places on earth to do business, such as Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Poland and the USA as well as on her  home turf here in the UK. She is also a fully qualified Executive Business Coach.

Nina’s projects are a diverse mix, focusing on people, product and technology. Her style is unashamedly disruptive as she believes that without being truly honest about where we are today, we can’t get to where we want to be tomorrow.

Digital transformation, particularly PLM has dominated her work for the last 10 years but she continues to champion people as the most important part of all technology projects.

Nina has had a few commercial ventures in her story but doesn’t see herself as an entrepreneur, as such, but she definitely has an entrepreneurial spirit.  She describes herself as out to prove that change can be managed differently, unafraid to say what everyone else is thinking. She is driven by the desire for change to be a human interaction, first and foremost.  The fact that she has built a successful consultancy and has had successful partnerships, is accidental. She believes entrepreneurship is a state of mind.

We discover how travel influenced her and would drive her to work in various companies not confined by the idea of a traditional career. Wherever she worked, her keen eye and intellect always spotted that there was room for improvement, and obvious ways to operate better and more efficiently. In this episode she shares her story so we may understand who she is and her journey to becoming The Change Troubleshooter. 

In this first episode, Entrepreneurship, Nina explains how all this started.