I believe that the role of business is to create value for society. I am particularly interested in the way that social enterprises, community businesses and cooperatives achieve this.Over the last 10 years, most of my work has focused on supporting large companies to practise 'social procurement' - the sourcing of products and services from social enterprise suppliers. This is not philanthropy. This is business... but it is business where people and planet benefit.At Social Enterprise UK, I lead a team which is delivering the Buy Social Corporate Challenge - the world's largest commitment to social procurement. Find out more here: https://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/corporate-challenge/I also co-led the creation and development of Buy Social Europe, a new initiative launched in 2023 to support global corporations to roll out social procurement programmes across the EU + Switzerland region. Find out more here: https://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/get-involved/social-procurement/buy-social-europe/I hold a Masters in International Development from the London School of Economics (LSE), I am a Fellow of the On Purpose leadership programme and I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).I am keen to connect to discuss ideas for collaboration or find out about new opportunities.
Listed skills include Social Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise, Strategy, Management, and 40 others.