David Parrish

David Parrish helps creative people make their businesses and organisations even more successful.

He does this by bringing together creative people (T-Shirts) with smart business thinking (Suits).

Successful creative enterprises integrate creativity and business. David offers an approach which brings together both creative passion and the best business ideas.

David Parrish is a business adviser, trainer and management consultant working with creative businesses and the agencies that support them. He helps his clients by drawing on his own experience as a creative entrepreneur combined with his knowledge as a specialist professional trainer, qualified business advisor, published author and keynote speaker.

David's book 'T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity' has been translated and published in Colombia, China, Spain, Taiwan, Lithuania, Thailand and Chile. It is also available as a free eBook, downloadable from www.davidparrish.com
Sharing the best ideas about business with the international community of creative entrepreneurs goes hand in hand with David's work as an expert creative industries consultant providing business advice, training and consultancy. He works as a creative business adviser, management trainer and creative industries speaker.
David's work is international and he has helped businesses and individuals to develop through his training workshops and management consultancy projects in countries as diverse as Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, India, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates - as well as in the United Kingdom.

David specialises in helping creative businesses and cultural enterprises with business development, business plans, innovation, marketing, intellectual property, raising finance, business growth, collaborations and innovation.
He is working in partnership with UNESCO to share best practice in the creative industries internationally.

David has been directly involved in the creative economy for more than 20 years, as an entrepreneur, manager, director, management consultant, business adviser, trainer, writer, and speaker.

He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a 'Chartered Marketer'. He is also a member of the Institute of Business Consulting, the Royal Society of Arts and other professional organisations.

David lives near Manchester, England.