About Mike

Mike Ogilvie – Profit Coach and International Professional Speaker

Born in Hastings in East Sussex, but fortunate enough to be exposed to multiple cultures and experiences as a child in Africa, having been brought up in Kenya, Tanzania, and Nigeria until a teenager, educated in Leicester, Mike has never been satisfied with a routine lifestyle, always looking to try something new, and his clients benefit from this outward looking expansive attitude.

Spending time with his wife Nadine and his son Daniel is most important to him, but sport remains important with skiing, golf, tennis, mountain biking and regular exercise taking priority as hobbies.

Visit Mike’s Face Book site for more insight into his life; he does like to live life to the full, and has completed the Coast to Coast ride on a mountain bike from Whitehaven on the UK west coast over the lake district mountains through to Newcastle on the east coast, in two long days with a group of friends.

With Nadine he climbed Mount Kinabalu in Borneo, after training on smaller mountains Helvellyn and Snowdon in UK , and has also ridden the tough off road 100 mile trail “The South Downs Way” on a mountain bike for charity. Recently he has climbed the mountains in Patagonia, in Argentina and Chile.

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However, although he is the major shareholder and managing director of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers OBC The Accountants, most of his time is focused on his work as one of UK’s leading Profit Coaches, with his company The Profit Team.A Master Practitioner of Neuro-linguistic programming, he was a founding Director of The Association of Profit Advisers.
When he is not using his skills and experience to help his clients to focus on increasing their profitability, he is an international motivational speaker talking at Conferences and Seminars in UK and abroadwhere, among other thngs, he inspires his audience to adopt a Profit Culture in their businesses.

After a conference in Llubljana in Slovenia, Michael was compared favourably by organizer Robert Rolih with top American speakers Brian Tracy and Chet Holmes and leading English speaker Geoff Burch.

Apart from being a professional speaker, Mike and his team do offer additional business improvement services, and after visiting Iran three times forconferences in Tehran and other Iranian cities, Mike was asked each time to extend his visits to undertake additional assignments with Iranian businesses.
Mike’s work experience as a Chartered Accountant and Profit Coach (www.theprofitteam.com) has spanned three decades with different sized businesses ranging from a top ten national firm to 20 man OBC The Accountants he currently has in Eastbourne (www.obcaccountants.com)

Working primarily as a Profit Coach and International Speaker, Michael’s clients benefit from his experience, using him extensively for non-exec work.

Mike Ogilvie is an inspirational Professional Speaker!

He clearly stands out from the crowd both as a Profit Coach, a Tax Accountant and indeed as a Coach and Presenter. He is highly knowledgeable, experienced, innovative, and down to earth when it comes to suggesting how you can maximise profits in your business and plan for optimum success, whether you are a start up or a long established business in need of assistance. Mike emanates a sense of integrity, creativity and trust and what he so generously shares makes perfect sense from a high level business perspective.

I loved hearing him speak!

Fabienne Alsing
Public Speaker, Gourmet RAW Food Chef & Coach, Natural Health Consultant