‘You don’t build a business, you build people and they build your business’Chief Executive at The Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a membership organisation committed to making Sheffield the best place to start, run and grow a successful and sustainable business, charity or social enterprise. Spent twenty years as a business owner helping to build and develop harmonious, productive teams and organisations across all industry sectors. Working with a broad range of organisations to attract, motivate, inspire, develop and keep their biggest asset - their people. A speaker and thought leader, a coach and facilitator. An inclusive chair looking to help improve equality, diversity and inclusion in all the spaces I am in. A proud trustee and NED for organisations and charities who’s purpose I align with - Chair of Sheffield Business Together, Co-Chair of the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority Business Advisory Board, Trustee at St Luke’s Hospice, advisory board Member of the Higher Education Partnership ( Sheffield Hallam University & University of Sheffield )A firm believer in continual development, graduate of Goldman Saccs 10KSB, Common Purpose, NLP, Dale Carnegie and a fully qualified mental health first aider. A socially conscious entrepreneur and huge champion of Benchmark, the employment consultancy I co-founded in 2006 that is now run by a long standing and brilliant employee following an MBO in 2022