Garfield Daley is a man of many talents; he is driven by a high drive for achievement, and to excel in all the important areas of in life including spiritual, financial and also his family.  

A native of Jones Town, in West Kingston, Daley lived with his parents and siblings and sooner than later they made the calculated move to Duhaney Park in Kingston. Daley attended Ardenne High School and he worked assiduously to complete his high school years.

After this, he attended the University of Technology (UTech—when it was still the College of Arts, Science and Technology (CAST)—where he pursued a Bachelor‘s in engineering. He then went on to do his Master’s in business administration at the Nova Southeastern University in Florida. 

“I was both technical and I also loved the business arena. At high school, it was the thing of the day to be in the science group. Those people were considered the brilliant ones. I wasn’t brilliant by any means, but I loved the sciences, and I was a part of that group. But deep down, I had a strong love and desire for business subjects, and I hoped that later on the opportunity would have arisen for me to go into the group that would have taken business and economics and those other things because I loved those things also,” Daley said. 

In his early years, Pastor Gladstone Clarke played a significant role, as a mentor and role model in his life.

“He was a builder, a farmer, and he did other businesses. I learned from him the importance of having and doing multiple things, even though you might have a common single objective. I looked at how he operated, and somehow, they seemed to just merge, and he was able to take care of his family. He was also able to help others,” Daley said. 

Daley desired and really wanted to do what he loved, which was engineering, but he also wanted to take on his next love, which was just being an entrepreneur.

“I just loved letting things happen, doing things on my own, taking it from beginning to end, and delivering a product or delivering a service. I just loved that from those early years with him, and I also caught onto the building and construction from him.  So, to this day, in addition to some of the other entrepreneurial things that I would have undertaken, one of them is construction. I have done a few construction projects,” he said.  

Today, Daley is living his entrepreneurial dream. In addition to construction projects, Daley also operates a trading company, while he does electrical consultancy. 

“These kinds of things allow me to hone some skills and to see and appreciate what being on your own is like, what working to satisfy the needs and demands of others are, and just the gratification and satisfaction of knowing that you are contributing to other people being happy and carrying out what it is that they want to carry out…I saw myself as someone helping somebody else, helping a broader community, and this is really what I personally wanted to do, and so I was happy doing just that,” Daley said. 

Daley is the founder and chairman of Entrepreneurship Partners Limited, a professional services firm that is dedicated to assisting clients navigate the changing dynamics of the business environment, to enable them to achieve their business goals. 

The company provides expert advice and guidance to businesses that are seeking to improve performance and deliver value to their stakeholders. Entrepreneurship Partners Limited also works closely with their clients to solve complex problems, improve their business operations, and achieve their goals and objectives. 

“Entrepreneurial Partners consulting and business advisory services offer a unique blend of hands-on collaboration, tailored to the budgetary constraints of MSMEs. They prioritise empowering leaders and their teams, delivering measurable and impactful results, and providing a distinctive approach that sets them apart from other consulting firms,” Daley said. 

Some of their key considerations he said are building a strong platform for competitiveness and recognising the landscape as it is.  

“It is very competitive. We are going to come into your space and we are going to look at what you have. Look where you are and see how we can build a strong platform to allow you to be competitive,” he said. 

According to Daley, they align corporate strategies with strategic business goals and objectives. Now these may sound like big things. This, he said, is very important to the proper operation of the entity and the potential for scaling that must not be overlooked.  

“Sometimes there are assets that we have and we do not know the value of them and how to properly utilise them to your benefit. When we look at and implement what is called an asset rationalisation programme, we analyze your assets and we rationalize them to your benefit,” he said. 

Entrepreneurial Partners Limited will once again host the Re-Align Business and Investment Conference, that will bring together entrepreneurs to not just network but to re-evaluate and re-align their businesses.  

“MSMEs will benefit because when you look at the cadre of business leaders, and the speakers that are going to be there, they are willing to answer pressing questions. We will hear from people about how they made investments that have worked for them. It just cannot be better than this. We look forward to having all our business people in the MSME space,” Daley said.

The second staging of the Re-Align Business and Investment Conference is scheduled for July 23 at the AC Hotel Kingston.