what’s my track record?
entrepreneur – strategy, social media, sales, marketing, innovation
- 20 years of business experience (including founder of my own companies) in the management/business consulting, leisure, new media and legal sectors
- Solid track record in generating income for people and organisations – strategising, innovating and achieving quality lead generation, quality referrals and increasing sales in a short period of time:
- 2009 – £562,000 of new client legal work enquiries as a trainee solicitor and newly qualified solicitor (non-practising)
- 2005 – Involved in published business lifestyle book “Big Rocks: balancing life and work” (innovation and editing)
- 2001 – Cannons Health & Fitness Ltd – Company Prize. Instrumental in club team achieving £500,000 revpam in January 2001
- 1998 – Instrumental in Digital Print Direct Limited achieving DTI Grant offer £250,000 – the first digital print & marketing company in the UK to achieve the same
- 1997>1999 – Teesside Branch Vice Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses
- As a business consultant I have helped many UK and USA based organisations and their people grow
- Member of the Institute of Business Consulting (MIBC) and Institute of Directors (IoD)
- Women’s Enterprise Ambassador
- Certified Social Media Strategist
lawyer
- The past 6 years I have spent in the legal profession comprising Masters in Law degree at Sheffield Law School, LPC at Nottingham Law School, legal work experience in Georgetown, Washington D.C. USA and 3 years in a mid-tier Leeds UK based law firm
- 2009 – the first entrepreneurial trainee solicitor in the UK to successfully create a personal brand together with devising a refreshingly unique relationship building, relationship sales and relationship marketing approach which achieved impressive marketing and sales results – £562,000 of new client legal work enquiries
- 2009 – EntrepreneurLawyer Limited founder and CEO
author / writer
2010 author of The Naked Lawyer eBook: a red hot sales blueprint laid bare for bottom line impact - a refreshing approach to ‘how to get more clients, sales, referrals, income, value, growth and success’. If you want to know how to market, personal brand and sell yourself then this is an absolute must read for you!
national award winning researcher
A national award and prize winning researcher. 1996 – Leisure Studies Association `Thesis of the Year Award’: Women Entrepreneurs in the 1990’s.
enterprise ambassador, role model, judge, blogger & mentor
In demand as an enterprise ambassador, role model, judge, innovator, business consultant, sales consultant, law management blogger and mentor:
- 2010 - Designated blogger for the Law Society Gazette’s ‘In Business’ blog - regular contributor to the law management section (blogger); The Prince’s Trust – Million Makers Corporate Challenge (mentor)
- 2009 – Yorkshire & Humber Young Enterprise Awards (judge); Leeds Enterprise Show (role model); Yorkshire Enterprising Researcher (judge)
- 2008 – World University Network Global Enterprise Competition (University of Sheffield panel judge); on the Advisory Board of University of Sheffield Management School; FLUX Leeds Regional Finals (judge); University of Sheffield’s Enterprise Zone Business Creation Competition Finals (business expert & judge)
further information:
- See what my clients have to say about how I can help you
- Check out Why choose me to help you and My story
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If you have any questions and/or you’d like to simply get in touch then I’d be delighted to hear from you.
