Champion of UK Entrepreneurship and NED, No 1 bestselling Author of ‘The Secret Sauce - how to SuperScale your business and empower your talent with empathetic leadership’. Founder and former CEO of finnCap Group Plc
The Governments Women Led High Growth Taskforce reports next Thursday on our findings as to how we make a difference and increase the number of female led businesses scaling up and growing. As a man you are 5x more likely to scale yoir business past £1m turnover than a woman. We want to change that. Zandra Moore has been doing the most amazing work on the taskforce on regions and has just launched Lifted Ventures, to do just that. If you want to get involved in championing female high growth companies across regions do get in touch! #growth #founders #entrepreneurship #femalefounders #femaleentrepreneurs #femalefoundersrise
Yesterday we bought together a Leeds female founder ecosystem event on behalf of Zandra Moore as part of the government Women Led High Growth Taskforce conversation. Thanks to Anna Sutton for kicking the session off, and look at the wealth of talent in the room! Just what was required to consider how best to take action in addressing the statistics below: *5% of funding rounds in Leeds go to female led businesses and start ups * 1% of investment £'s goes to female founders. The conversation was uplifting and REAL in equal measure. Positive in that community and collective action is already taking shape, sitting alongside the pragmatism that structural barriers are not easy to shift. Here are some of the takeaways: 1. Male advocates are critical - we were very fortunate to have William Schaffer from Mercia Asset Management PLC and Dirk Mischendahl from NORTHERN BLOC ICE CREAM LIMITED join us, thanks guys 2. Focussing on GROWTH is more, or just as important as sector when it comes to areas of focus. 3. Inclusivity needs to underpin everything - thanks Sharon Kaur Jandu OBE for your insights and challenge on this important topic. 4. How to give everyone in the ecosystem the confidence and encouragement to challenge non inclusive behaviours. 5. Creating a REAL legacy - in terms of high profile success stories and a significant volume of success stories. And lots lots more good stuff....... more, much more to follow! Thanks to Eleanor Baker and Natalie Boswell from Lloyds Banking Group for funding the work behind the conversation and Chelsea Boothroyd from Nexus Leeds for the room and food. Camila Zattar Lorna Holroyd Karrie Tilburn Francesca Dumas Linda Broughton Victoria Tomlinson FRSA Cat Smith Judith Parry CDir FIoD Fiona Bolam Panintelligence Helen OldhamJordan Dargue Alessandra L. Mary Ahern #investment #growthfunding #ecosystem #femalefounders
Businesses knock on my door when it's time to transform how they generate leads and drive sales. I founded a company called LeadFlow and our work has generated 9ish figures in sales.
6moGreat initiative. We are 3:1 female led and proud of it.