Professional Business Advisors
What is the Professional Business Advisors (PBA) Programme?
The PBA programme is a free scheme delivered via the Worcestershire Growth Hub which provides businesses based in Worcestershire with access to expert advice and guidance for free.
The support is delivered in a 1:1 format and focused on a challenge or challenges facing a business.
Watch our 60 second guide to the PBA programme
Who are the 2026/27 PBA’s?
The Professional Business Advisors are experts in their areas, allowing organisations to get the most out of the programme.
Whatever your challenge, there’s a specialist available.
Click on the Advisor names below to find a brief summary of what support they can provide, and follow the links to access each advisors more detailed overview.
Consultancy
RockSolid can help businesses who have identified challenges to their growth and provide advice and guidance to help overcome them. They can do this through multiple avenues, such as; review strategies, productivity improvements, leadership development, and generating a realistic action plan.
Consultancy
Maddison Jade Consultancy can help businesses who have identified challenges to their growth and provide advice and guidance to help overcome them. They can do this through multiple avenues, such as; review strategies, productivity improvements, leadership development, and generating a realistic action plan.
Marketing
Sharp Monkeys can support businesses who have identified a challenge or gaps in their marketing and are looking for ways to increase its breadth and impact to support growth. This can be through: marketing, sales and content strategy, presenting and pitching strategies for success, social media, brand strategy, promotion and PR, SEO and website design.
Marketing
We are ALP can support businesses who have identified a challenge or gaps in their marketing and are looking for ways to increase its breadth and impact to support growth. This can be through: marketing, sales and content strategy, presenting and pitching strategies for success, social media, brand strategy, promotion and PR, SEO and website design.
Energy, Sustainability, Clean Tech
Clean Tech help businesses who wish to manage their energy costs, reduce emissions, conserve resources, and improve sustainability. The ways they can help a business are through providing advice and guidance by creating net zero plans, developing a green strategy, desk based energy assessment, mentor adaptation of green/sustainable strategies, generating a realistic and achievable plan.
Digital Tech & AI
Blue box can help support businesses who wish to increase their productivity and efficiency through the introduction of IT, digital tech, and the use of AI. They can provide advice and guidance, including: a digital strategy and digital transformation strategy, integration of hardware and software tools, choosing and implementing software packages and business management systems, implementation of digital payment and booking systems, AI, and generating a realistic and achiveable plan.
Cyber Security
Assure Technical supports businesses who wish to improve their cyber security and awareness. They provide advice and guidance as required which may include; cyber essential support, IT security, ISO 27001 readiness, information governance and compliance, generating a realistic and achievable action plan.
HR Support
Limelite HR offer support to businesses to identify organisational challenges, with a strong focus on workforce, skills, people management and operational barriers to growth, and providing tailored HR-led advice to address these effectively.
Support is not HR advice to support with an issue with a specific employee, it is support to the business directly with their HR requirements and improving their processes.
HR Support
The HR Hero offers support to businesses to identify organisational challenges, with a strong focus on workforce, skills, people management and operational barriers to growth, and providing tailored HR-led advice to address these effectively.
Support is not HR advice to support with an issue with a specific employee, it is support to the business directly with their HR requirements and improving their processes.
Are you eligible for this free business support?
The only eligibility requirement for the Professional Business Advisor programme is that you are a business based in or trading in Worcestershire!
If you are interested, contact the team today via the details below to be able to gain free, professional business support.