A bit about me...
Hi, I am Chris Hyland, a B2B Entrepreneur and Board Advisor
First and foremost, I am a family man and proud husband to my wife and father to my two children. I am also sport mad, and try to escape to the golf course when I can.
I have been an entrepreneur for 16 years, but I was not born an entrepreneur, I didn't even know what it meant, but I always liked the thought of being in control of my own destiny and building something that was mine. This has led me down the path to who I am today.
The first business
In 2008 at the age of 26, I set up my first company, 4Ps Marketing Ltd, with the hopes and dreams of being regarded as one of the best digital agencies in the world. My business partner and I threw our life and soul into building a company we could feel proud of, where we empowered people to bring their best selves to work who could produce world-class results for global brands. I am proud to say we achieved this and more, working with household names such as Selfridges, Vivienne Westwood, Gymshark, The White Company, Hertz, Nissan and Audi to name a few.
After an incredible 8 years of growth, we were acquired by a French PLC in 2016 in a multi-million-pound deal. After starting from humble beginnings in a 2 man office with no windows, we scaled to 150 people in the UK before helping drive the global business from 600 to 1,000 employees from 2016 to 2018. In June 2018 it was time to say goodbye and close this chapter after completing a 10-year journey.
4Ps Marketing
The Happiness Index
The second business
During our agency growth phase, we found it harder to stay connected to our people and customers, however, we did not want to lose the fantastic culture we had worked so hard to create, so we came up with the concept of asking our employees and customers 'how happy they were' on a regular basis? Amazingly, the feedback we received was like gold dust and all we had to do was act on it. Lo and behold, the best growth years of our agency followed.
We had seen the power of listening to your employees and acting on that feedback first-hand, so it was time to launch our second business, The Happiness Index. To date, our mission has been to enable organisations to build thriving workplace cultures through happy and engaged employees underpinned by our neuroscience methodology. During the last 6 years, we have raised over 5m and were valued at 22m in our latest funding round. We now gather feedback from over 140 countries worldwide and continue to have ambitious plans to leave a lasting legacy.
Ready to Grow?
Let's Connect
Whether we work together or not, I am always delighted to meet like-minded individual's who are trying to create their own path, so get in touch to arrange a virtual coffee.
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