A creative and effective manager of people with a passion for enterprise and social development. My experience is broad and includes six years with Unilever and four years running my own business. I am a qualified business mentor and am passionate about supporting start-ups from all industries to realise their growth ambitions.Specialities:* Entrepreneurship - the ladders and the pitfalls* Analysing and interpreting data for strategic advantage.* Business planning as both a selling tool (i.e. for funding) and to support integrated internal alignment.* Business and market research skills.* Competitive intelligence - helping organisations understand their market and environment.* Performance management - developing KPIs that really work.* Taking an innovative approach to problem solving.