I am an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience driving strategy, growth, operations and change.My core values are self-control, integrity, fairness, love and leadership.I have always been inspired to focus on activities that help people and organisations grow and develop and I have been lucky enough to live this mission in my professional life. I am a devoted and active community member as I believe it is a fundamental human need.Launching NewLeaf with my long term friend and business partner Mark Nesbitt, I am now entirely focused on empowering values led and purpose driven leaders to build the business and life they want.As a previous Director at UrbanLeaf, I grew the UK’s longest-running charity street fundraising organisation which delivered outstanding results for 19 years for our charity clients, namely Unicef, Oxfam, British Red Cross, Save the Children, Action Aid, SOS Children's Villages, Barnardos and WarChild; through a team of exceptionally talented fundraisers.My expertise includes:♦ STRATEGY – ORGANISATIONAL GROWTHI build and execute strategies that deliver top- and bottom-line growth across markets, with a wealth of expertise in strategic planning, business development, operating models and change management.♦ OPERATIONAL LEADERSHIP – ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCEI optimise BAU and change-focused operations, embedding robust financial and operational controls, processes and behaviours that drive organisational performance, and am highly experienced in leading organisations through scale-up, consolidation, mergers, integrations and other change.♦ LEADERSHIP – TALENT DEVELOPMENTI develop high-performance cultures, with an outstanding record of growing talent through innovative strategies which secure and retain high-quality staff, with continuous emphasis on learning and development, backed up by robust performance and quality mechanisms.♦ FINANCE - MANAGING CASHFLOW AND P&LI created and managed the financial systems and processes for each of the business that I founded. This included VAT returns, payroll, weekly KPI reporting & board reports. I continuously analysed the cost centres seeking to minimise expenditure and maximise income.