About Jo

Built through real business.
Refined over decades.

I’ve spent more than 40 years in sales, over 30 years building businesses and 19 years building and owning a respected brand in the electrical industry.

Today, I help business owners and leadership teams make better commercial decisions, strengthen commercial performance and build businesses that support the life they started them for in the first place.

Jo Stimson
Experience
40+
Years in Sales
30+
Years Building Businesses
19
Years Building & Owning a Respected Brand in the Electrical Industry
Management
Buyout
Successfully led and delivered
The background

I’ve sat where
you’re sitting.

For 19 years I helped build and grow a respected brand in the electrical industry as Managing Director, Sales Director and part owner.

When I work with businesses today, I’m not working from theory.

I’m drawing on years of making commercial decisions, leading people and building a business of my own.

I understand the weight of meeting payroll. I understand the responsibility of leading people. I understand making decisions that affect other people’s livelihoods.

And I understand what it feels like when the numbers aren’t where you want them to be, the pressure starts to build and everyone is looking to you for the next decision.

Those experiences still shape every conversation I have today.


Successful businesses aren’t built on one brilliant decision.

They’re built on hundreds of good commercial decisions, made consistently over time.

The way you lead your people. The standards you set. The conversations you have. The decisions you make when things feel uncertain.

Sales is part of that. But it’s never the whole story.

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Jo Stimson
Where it started

Learning business before
I even realised it.

I’m East London born and bred and grew up around my parents’ village sweet shop.

At the time it simply felt like normal life.

Serving customers. Stacking shelves. Weighing sweets into paper bags. Listening to conversations.

Looking back, I realise I was learning business long before I knew what business was.

People came back because they trusted my parents. Because they felt remembered. Because they were looked after.

That stayed with me.

It’s one of the reasons Go To Jo exists today.


Customer service, relationships and trust aren’t the soft stuff.
They’re the foundations of every successful business.
Why this matters to me

After more than four decades in business, I’ve learned that most business owners don’t need more information.

They don’t need another tactic.

And they certainly don’t need someone telling them to become somebody else.

They need clarity. They need confidence. They need someone who’ll ask the questions they’ve stopped asking themselves.

Someone who’ll challenge their thinking, celebrate their wins and help them make better commercial decisions.

That’s what I bring.

Not just a view of sales. Experienced commercial eyes that help businesses see the bigger picture.


Over the years I’ve learned that most business owners don’t need someone to tell them what to do.

They need someone who’ll listen, ask better questions, challenge their thinking and give them the confidence to make the decisions they’ve been putting off.

That’s the role I have the privilege of playing today.

Whether I’m working with a business owner, a leadership team or a sales team, my goal is always the same: to help people think more clearly, lead more confidently and build businesses that support the life they started them for.

Because when that happens, better decisions follow.

People grow.

Businesses grow.

And that’s the work I love.

Let’s have a conversation
Sales is just one part of the puzzle. The real opportunity is building a business that’s commercially stronger, easier to lead and better able to support the life you started it for.
Mentor of the Year Finalist 2025
Amazon Best Seller
SME National Business Awards 2022 Finalist
IOD
Amazon No.1 Best Seller
Digital Boost
Kilimanjaro
Enterprise Nation
Award
Mentor of the Year Finalist 2025
Amazon Best Seller
SME National Business Awards 2022 Finalist
IOD
Amazon No.1 Best Seller
Digital Boost
Kilimanjaro
Enterprise Nation
Award
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