Meet our founder
Affi Khan
An energetic entrepreneur and leader across the staffing market in the UK. He is a start-up specialist with extensive experience in launching, building, scaling, turning around and exiting successful recruitment businesses in rapidly changing niche markets.
Click on his pic to connect with him on LinkedIn or keep reading as he explains below why he created Newbridge and how we can help you.
"Newbridge, is an idea more than anything else!"
An idea change is the only thing thats permanent. Therefore fixed, dogmatic, rigid structures just don’t work, not for long anyway. To even survive, let alone thrive, as Taleb coined, we must be antifragile.
As such the philosophical idea that ‘instead of waiting for the storm to pass, we must learn how to dance in the rain’ rings true for us. Newbridge therefore, is the embodiment of that philosophy.
I believe that the framework for this new normal is VUCA which is the acronym for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. In this new normal, we can’t bunker down and wait for a crisis to pass, after this, they’ll be another one and another one after that. Instead we have to be resilient, vigilant, flexible and nimble enough to keep moving forward, in spite of chaos.
The antidote to a VUCA reality is VUCA leadership, this time standing for Vision, Understanding, Clarity and Agility. This is exactly what Newbridge has set out to deliver. We aim to partner with and create, independent, agile organisations (not rigid, corporate hierarchies) that can benefit from scale without compromising their own identity and have the landscape fit to thrive in this new normal. I created Newbridge to facilitate this idea.
"We're obsessed with creating value for ourselves and our partners!"
So many growth partners are only interested in getting their pound of flesh from you. When things get tough, they are nowhere to be found, and when you succeed, they are right at the front taking credit for it all. At Newbridge we would never do that, we're very happy to help from behind the scenes, support you to build your own success story and all the recognition you rightfully deserve for your hard work. Furthermore, we do our best work in times of rapid change, so when the storm clouds gather, we'll be right next to you, leaning in to support you in the tough times and back away when its time for you to shine, to us it's not about the ego, it's all about value. The common thread that unites us is a common belief in the values Newbridge stands for and an obsession to create above average value for ourselves and our partners.
To learn more all you need to do is contact us for an initial, confidential conversation and subject to a simple two-way NDA our model and exactly how we work can be explained in a very practical way and then, if needed, we can pass you to one of our existing partners who themselves can tell you how they feel about the Newbridge way!
