Business Consultancy
AI Skills Training
Entrepreneurialism
DVL Smith carries out business consultancy projects and also runs skills development programmes on the art of collaborating with AI, together with high performance courses for entrepreneurs.
Business Consultancy
DVL Smith has a 30 year award winning track record of successfully conducting business and insight projects for a wide range of leading global organisations. We provide a holistic approach to problem solving, combining our experience in both the qualitative and quantitative methodologies, together with being experienced management consultants able to help to action insights.
David is the author of The High Performance Customer Insight Professional: How to make sense of the evidence, build the story and turn insights into action
Skills for collaborating with AI
We offer three core programmes:
The Sensemaker: How to work with AI to see the big business picture The Creative Problem Solver: How to use AI as your creative sparring partner to unearth fresh perspectives
The Authentic Storyteller: How to work with AI to craft powerful messages that drive action
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Entrepreneurialism
We have extensive experience of supporting small and medium sized business owners.
David’s book – The Entrepreneur Mindset: The Art of Making Ideas Happen – provides numerous tips for business entrepreneurs on how to enhance their performance and take their businesses to the next level.
About Us
David founded DVL Smith and built this up to be a major insight and business consultancy that then became part of a global marketing communications group with David taking the role of Chairman and CEO until DVL Smith was relaunched in 2007 as an independent consultancy.
David VL Smith
David holds a PhD in Organisational Psychology from the University of London and is a Professor at the University of Hertfordshire Business School where he is an Entrepreneur in Residence specialising in entrepreneurship.
He’s a former Vice President of ESOMAR and a former Chairman of the UK Market Research Society. In addition to being a Fellow of the Market Research Society, he is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and also the Institute of Consulting where he is a Certified Management Consultant.
Awards
David holds ESOMAR’s Excellence Award for Marketing Intelligence, the MRS Silver Medal and the client organisation AURA’s Award for Driving the Industry Forward. He is a two times winner of the ESOMAR Congress Best Paper award and numerous other awards from the Market Research Society, ESOMAR and other insight and business organisations.
The Entrepreneur Mindset
DVL Smith’s book – The Entrepreneur Mindset: The Art of Making Ideas Happen – helps you cultivate the power of your mindset and make your ideas happen.
This practical guide takes you on a transformative journey through seven dimensions of the Entrepreneur Mindset.
The High Performance Customer Insight Professional
DVL Smith’s book – The High Performance Customer Insight Professional – is a practical guide for today’s insight professional.
The book focuses on how to find the story in the evidence, build compelling insight narratives, and ensure insights are effectively implemented. Buy on Amazon
The Art and Science of Interpreting Market Research Evidence
This pioneering book, published in 2004 by John Wiley, was one of the first to introduce the holistic analysis of different sources of research evidence.
This book provides a number of frameworks and techniques for building an integrated insight story.
