at Elevate BC we enter a new chapter and with a rich and diverse team of experts on hand we continue to help our clients and their businesses to thrive and forge paths for successful and sustainable futures.

Founder of Elevate BC, Marian Evans joined Sian Doyle and Laura McAllister as a guest on their morning radio show to discuss the importance of encouraging and supporting women to smash glass ceilings.

Self-compassion is all about giving yourself a break and treating yourself with kindness and understanding when you have a setback at work. Exercising self-compassion is important because, quite simply, it makes you a better leader.

Marian Evans and 15 experts from Forbes Business Council each explain one thing managers can do to ensure their leadership skills are up to date and not causing employees to leave and why these actions are important for creating a positive and productive work environment. In turn leading to employees feeling valued and motivated to contribute to the success of the organisation.

15 effective tips for leaders to build sustainability and longevity into the foundation of a sustainable business built for longevity.

Employees can enjoy their work and even have a sense of accomplishment and pride, but if there’s a lack of trust between them and their boss, senior execs or the organization itself, they can start to question how and where they fit in the organization, and that has severe implications.

Side hustles allow anyone with an idea or a passion to start a business and grow it slowly while still earning an income from their main job. That can free you to grow your new business in a gradual, more organic way without the need to take on external funding.

Mutuality can generate more value for stakeholders and business, helping make them stronger and more sustainable than those focused on profit.

Trust in relationships between people is built on a culture of psychological safety and is one of the key parts of high-performing teams.

Strategies leading entrepreneurs found helpful to maintain thriving business in changing times, ensuring their business overcame challenges.

Between endless meetings, constant emails and messages, and managing employees, entrepreneurs and business leaders often feel they have precious little time to check "real work" tasks off their to-do lists.

The secret to overcoming this feeling is finding ways to boost your productivity during those limited distraction-free periods.

Establishing a brand's online presence is easy. Building a successful brand is less so. That’s because a successful brand requires entrepreneurs to understand who they are, what they’re about and what makes them unique.

Clear communication from leadership is imperative in a business setting. If goals aren’t communicated effectively or decisions aren’t shared properly with a team, it can hinder a business’s growth...

A Welsh businesswoman has gone from helping in the cow shed on her family dairy farm as a child to becoming queen of her very own castle after buying a 900 year old fortified landmark she once visited on day trips and becoming a TV star.

The number of ‘love locks’ left on the walls of Llansteffan Castle is testament to it’s significance to many loved up couples and one local couple is committed to making sure it is part of many more love stories for years to come.

No-one’s life is perfect, and there’s no such thing as always getting it right. You have to adjust, listen, learn, pivot but above all you have to learn to believe “Yes I can” I want to educate people to question what they know as the status quo...

Elevate BC founder Marian Evans was asked to contribute to a feature in Management Today, asking leaders to contribute their best retention tips

Elevate BC founder Marian Evans has been recognised in a list of the Top 20 Business Coaches across the globe to watch in 2021.

Guests at an Executive Coaching retreat at Llansteffan Castle will be encouraged to forage for their supper, enjoying natures finest, freshest delicacies where it will then be cooked by their guide.

Through the internationally renowned Everything DiSC® and the Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team ® models, Elevate BC provides a comprehensive assessment and development strategy that measures an individual’s preferences, behaviours, strengths and tendencies and how this affects their effective collaboration with co-workers and teams.

Understanding your personality type and the unique value of yourself can provide a robust foundation for life-long personal development. By having that open and honest relationship with yourself, you can start to accept exactly who you are and understand what does and doesn’t work for you. By knowing who you are...

Article published in Coaching Perspectives - October 2020 Entrepreneur and award-winning coach Marian Evans reflects on what drives her to mentor others and how a great mentor can help coaches weather the Covid storm and other crises. As coaches we are used to listening to others but we do not always listen to ourselves To download a copy […]

Marian Evans (our Founder) joined Alex Jones on BBC Radio Wales live on her Sunday Morning show on the weekend. If you missed it follow the link in this article.

Series 1 of our 5 star-rated podcast series ‘Exclusively Elevate’ is about to have the last 3 episodes (recorded in July) made available to listen to on all major podcast platforms, we can’t wait to see what you think!

Series 2 Launches 18th September with Rob Jones MBE discussing, 'How we need to inspire, adapt and dig deep to succeed'.

Marian Evans (Elevate BC's Founder) has been buying and selling properties since she was 18. But the decision to buy Llansteffan Castle...

Delighted to announce the launch of the Elevate Business Podcast, Series One.

We invite you to join Marian Evans & Andrea Byrne (ITV Wales) on the 10/7/20 for a special webinar discussing: 'Executive Presence'.

We invite you to join Marian Evans & Rhod Gilbert (Writer, Comedian, Presenter) on the 3/7/20 for a special webinar discussing the topic: 'Imposter Syndrome (Its not all bad)'.

In this session on 25/6/20 Marian and Mandy will touch on understanding strengths and capitalising on them as well as the power of being unique.

We are pleased to announce that as part of our Information Security initiatives Elevate BC has become Cyber Essentials certified. Elevate BC is one of the Wales’ leading independent business consultancies, specialising in  leadership training, executive coaching & mentoring, and business consultancy. Marian Evans, founder of Elevate Business Consultancy, provided the following comment: “The very […]

During this previous webinar Marian Evans & Sam White discussed 'Change' (managing, coping with, surviving and thriving with). Video and podcast.

Carmarthenshire based businesswoman Marian Evans has been recognised for her successes by being shortlisted in three categories at the prestigious annual Women in Business awards. Awarding the top Women in Business and also celebrating the 10th anniversary of the awards, Marian has been nominated in the Professional Woman, Role Model/Mentor and Inspirational Woman category. The […]

Credit Article URL: Wales24 A business woman from Carmarthen has been recognised for her contribution to the financial services and leadership industries with a string of recent award nominations. This year’s WIFA Awards, designed to celebrate the achievements of women working within the financial advice community, attracted a record 1,100 entries, while the first ever […]

West Wales Business Woman is National Finance Award Winner A business woman from Carmarthen has been announced as ‘Mentor of the Year’ in the national Women in Financial Advice Awards. Marian Evans, 40, was shortlisted from more than 800 nominees in the inaugural Women in Financial Advice Awards and beat nine other nominees to secure […]

Listen to Marian's interview with Rebecca Hayes, a presenter at Radio Cymru Please click here to listen

Marian has been named as one of the top 10 Role Models and Female Mentors in the UK final list for the Women in Financial Advice Awards 2018 Mentor Marian Evans was proud to watch mentee Steve Cooper pick up the award for ‘Start up of the Year’ at the Business Wales Mentoring Awards 2018.

Marian, recently described as the Welsh Alex Polizzi Marian is fast becoming known as a forerunner in business consulting, working with initiatives’ such as ‘Winning Pitch’ (LOGO attached). ‘The Accelerated Growth Programme’ and ‘Business Wales’ (LOGO already sent). Her trademark? Her down to earth, enthusiastic and hands on approach.

A strong financial services background coupled with experience as a business owner and advisor has allowed Marian to develop a consultancy that supports and challenges people and businesses looking to excel. Marian now works as a Business Consultant and Director of Elevate BC ltd. A qualified executive coach and business mentor, Marian is one of […]

Welsh business woman Marian Evans from Llansteffan has recently become one of only 5 individuals in Wales to be awarded the Fellowship of the Institute of Leadership and Management. The highest level awarded by the Institute, the fellowship recognises those who have demonstrated exceptional management and leadership, continued professional development and attained the highest level […]

Tipped in Walesonline as one of Wales’ Top Movers and Shakers’ Marian is also the youngest women to serve as a Non-Executive Director on the CFS Ltd Board, the 8th largest Income Protection provider in the UK and The Federation of Agricultural Brokers, a UK wide network of Independent Brokers. Movers & Shakers Article 

Business experts, entrepreneurs, technologists, designers, philosophers and ecologists join forces to discuss the future of industry and society. Extract by Mathias Jäger From Hamburg Startups Business Page There are terms that should be used very sparingly because they are almost worn out to the point of being unrecognizable. "Inspirational" is one of them. The MLOVE […]

Marian, now 39, has spent most of her career in the Financial Services and Property Sector and became one of the youngest individuals in Wales to attain and practice as a Chartered Insurer and Chartered Insurance Broker. Having climbed the ranks at NFU Mutual where Marian was the first ever female consultant, Agency development Management […]