Once we’d made the decision to go for it and create our own business, there was the minor (!) issue of coming up with a name for it.  Fortunately, our friend and marketing guru Ian Hall www.spottydogmarketing.com was up in York at the same time as Sarah and the idea was born when he saw the little, spiky, red fruit sitting there in a fruit-bowl!  When I got back from my holiday I said “I’ve been thinking about the name and reckon that using some kind of fruit could be good…”  Bizarre, but true!

Rambutan started with Sarah and I.  Over time we realised that what we really enjoy doing (and what we are really good at!) is helping people to make a difference to the teams and organisations they’re a part of.

How we’d arrived at this realisation is something that either one of us would gladly tell you about in detail over a coffee or a glass of pinot grigio, but in summary…

Having started our professional lives doing something completely different (Sarah in business strategy and me in retail management) our paths crossed at Smythe Dorward Lambert in the millennium year.  There we realised just how well we work together.

Somewhere in the middle of all this an idea of building a business was formed – a business that helps people achieve their goals and make a real difference to the organisation or tribe that they are a member of!  As with many ideas it just hovered around in the air whilst we were busy earning money and bringing up families.

Then, just as a plant grows if it has the right conditions, the idea turned into a realistic possibility in the summer of 2008 because the conditions were right.  OK, there was a credit crunch in full flow but we decided not to ‘do the recession’.  We seized the moment and decided to start creating something to be really proud of…  In fact, we were so sure that we would be proud of it that we also decided to guarantee the quality of our work on a better than risk free basis.  Get in touch to find out what this means!

David and Sarah founders of Rambutan