7 Unusual Ways to Improve Your Business Performance
Seven less obvious ways to improve business performance, from letting teams set their own goals to mapping your whole business. Practical ideas for leaders.
7 Reasons You Should Trust Your Gut in Business
Discover why trusting your gut matters in business, how intuition strengthens decision-making, and practical ways to hear your instincts above the noise.
The Ripple Effect: Why Every Business Matters to Its Community
A business is never just a business. Its impact ripples through employees, families, suppliers, customers and communities, creating economic and human value that reaches far beyond its own four walls.
KPIs or Cash: What Really Matters in Business?
Most businesses focus on KPIs because they understand them — not because they matter more than cash. Here's what actually keeps a business running.
The Different Disciplines of Business Finance
Explore the different disciplines of business finance, including commercial, strategic, statutory, manufacturing, treasury, M&A and turnaround finance — and why cash underpins them all.
AI Has Given a Voice to People Who Will Never be Wordsmiths
AI is giving experts new ways to share knowledge and ideas. Heather Ogilvie explores how AI can help us communicate experience without replacing the human expertise behind it.
Strategic Finance: The Discipline That Turns Numbers Into Direction
Strategic finance isn't accounting. Discover what makes it different and how to build forward-looking financial thinking into your business.
Moving from Accountancy Practice into Industry
Moving from accountancy practice into industry? Discover what really changes, the commercial skills you’ll need and how to accelerate your learning curve.
Creativity Is Not a Luxury: Why Art, Business and Society Need Each Other
Explore why creativity matters in business, education and society, and why artists should feel confident building ambitious, commercially successful careers
Why I Founded The Ogilvie Business School
Discover why The Ogilvie Business School in Dundee, Scotland, was created by founder Heather Ogilvie, and how our practical, experience-led programmes help entrepreneurs, professionals and leaders build real commercial capability.
7 Growth Sectors Aspiring Entrepreneurs Should Be Watching
Discover seven of the fastest-growing business sectors for aspiring entrepreneurs, from wellness and creative industries to AI, education and animal wellbeing. Explore where new opportunities are emerging and how changing lifestyles are creating demand for innovative businesses.
Why Aren't More People Self-Employed?
Why aren't more people self-employed? Explore the seven biggest barriers to entrepreneurship, from fear and self-worth to education, risk and confidence, and discover what really stops people starting a business.
Your Personal Economic Life Cycle
From birth to death, money influences every stage of life. Heather Ogilvie examines the Personal Economic Life Cycle and shares why financial education matters through Ogilvie Advisory Education's Executive Education and Business Basics programmes.
Your Relationship With Money Starts Before You Are Born
Most money problems are not really about money. In this article by Heather Ogilvie, discover how your relationship with money is shaped by family beliefs, self-worth, confidence and inherited patterns, and why understanding that relationship could transform your financial future.
The Rise of the LinkedIn Selfie
Why are LinkedIn selfies everywhere? Explore the rise of the LinkedIn selfie, the psychology behind visibility, confidence and personal branding, and why some selfies work better than others. Insights from Heather Ogilvie and Ogilvie Advisory.
Help! My Business Is In Financial Trouble. What Should I Do?
Help! My business is in financial trouble. Learn how to assess cash flow, review costs, improve profitability and make informed decisions before financial pressures become a business crisis. By Heather Ogilvie, Ogilvie Advisory.
Top Down or Bottom Up? How Do You Price Your Products?
Top down or bottom up? Learn how to price your products properly, understand your true costs, assess market pricing and improve profitability with insights from Heather Ogilvie and Ogilvie Advisory.
10 Reasons You Might Not Believe In Your Own Brilliance (And What To Do About It)
Why do so many capable people struggle to recognise their own value? Heather Ogilvie of Ogilvie Advisory explores 10 common reasons people underestimate themselves and how to build greater self-trust, confidence and self-worth.
Business Is Simply The Art Of Solving Problems
Business success is not about avoiding problems. It is about becoming exceptionally good at solving them. Discover why curiosity, root cause analysis and practical problem-solving are at the heart of every successful business.
Before We Tax The Rich, We Must Understand Where Wealth Comes From
Tax debates often focus on redistribution. This article explores a more fundamental question: how is wealth created in the first place, and what drives long-term prosperity?