Our guest is Mike Lord, Chairman and CEO, Stiltz Lifts.
Stiltz Lifts is a dynamic, innovative, and fast-growing privately owned business.
Mike Lord is the unequivocal mobility industry entrepreneur.
He is the calm disruptor; redefining the look, the perception, and the way we use mobility and accessibility adaptations in the home. Steering Stiltz Homelifts for almost a decade, he has headed up an impressive growth story with turnover doubling year-on-year over the first 5 years then continuing to grow at 50% for the next 4 years.
An accomplished business professional, Mike combines an entrepreneurial flair alongside strong business management skills. But his core strength is creating a strategy and inspiring his teams to deliver the vision and financial success. His, and the Stiltz Team’s, over-arching mission statement for Stiltz is ‘Democratizing’ Homelifts; for a Stiltz Homelift to be the natural choice, a commonplace appliance available to anyone who wants to add convenience and style to their home in the same way as currently more mainstream home improvements and appliances. This vision captures the mood of the moment where the drive for continuing independence for older generations AND younger people with compromised mobility means they all seek a solution for inclusive living.
And that’s a tough order from an industry often laden with a prosaic, make-do-and-mend image.
Born in 1966, Mike hails from Leyland in Lancashire and by his own admission he was academically ‘average’ at school, spending more time focusing on canoe slalom, managing to get selected for the GB Youth Team. He then went onto the University of Central Lancashire
initially to study electronic engineering but switched to business after his first year setting him on his path to success. Mike still loves the product engineering part of Stiltz despite his lack of academic prowess in the subject at uni!
Mike Lord