I am driven by:Creating - I believe in unlimited market opportunity and untapped customer demand. I am therefore motivated by growth, sustainability, new ideas, and win-win value creation. I deliver by translating board strategy into purposeful vision and impactful story telling. I then build businesses, internal capabilities and commercial propositions from idea stage to first customer. I create the vision, herd the cats, build the team and the proposition, energise momentum, focus and get to market.Helping - I believe the answers to today’s environmental, social and economic challenges will be found by turning ideas into great businesses. I am therefore motivated by using my own experience, knowledge, connections and energy to develop and support high impact entrepreneurship. I have a proven track record in leading, designing and implementing programmes, ecosystems, physical ‘hubs’, and thought leadership that help entrepreneurs start, grow and scale businesses. In delivering these I create brand ROI and use my experience in fundraising and partnerships to secure finance and investment for this activity.How I do both is often described as collaborative, natural, non-hierarchical, warm, positive, nurturing, creative, solutions focused, driven by complex problems, and always willing to roll up my sleeves to help get things done.My particular expertise includes:Strategy: Translating board level instruction into purposeful vision and impactful story telling. Leadership: Hands on visionary leadership with a passion for leading collaborative multi-discipline and international teams. Business Design: Application of design methods and processes to develop and innovate business models/ markets, creating and capturing value, transforming value propositions into real business value, thinking laterally, driving growth.Customer Product Design: Identifying, developing and delivering valuable customer propositions, including new products and services, product roadmaps, agile technology/ digital development lifecycles, segmentation and customer product journey optimisation, championing customer-led organisational focus and design methodologies such as Jobs to be Done. Strategic Partnerships: Conceiving, negotiating and building external partnerships for mutual commercial gain.Entrepreneur Ecosystems: In-depth knowledge, understanding and connectivity of the UK’s entrepreneurial ecosystem: from start-ups to scale-ups.