Looking for an experienced female Speaker? Someone who can inspire, entertain and has earned the right to share with your audience due to real business success? Well I'd like to meet you.

Recently, I’ve been voted as one of the North's top 100 entrepreneurs, I’m officially recognised as being in the top 50 influencers in the region, am the Woman of Achievement in Yorkshire 2010, I sit on the board of three public sector organisations, I’m a regular commentator on  BBC Radio 2 and 5 Live, and when I draw a breath, am wife and mum of two

Here's how I started...

14 years ago, I was a backpacker and English teacher in Asia and I saw a way to bring tourism and development work together.

13 years ago, working as a Youth Worker, I believed that young people from any social background should be able to work abroad and have a cultural exchange that could change their lives.

12 years ago, I founded an ethical travel company from a bedsit in Yorkshire. My cause was to change the way people looked at the way they travelled - from one of 'take' to one of 'give'.

4 years ago, now spanning the globe, this company became the biggest gap year travel company in the world and the largest trainer of English teachers on the planet.

Not long ago a FTSE100 company acquired it for an 8 figure sum and continues its great work.

Today  I share my successes and my failures with audiences around the world. I’m renowned for my non-traditional approach and refreshing candour. I’m a fearless innovator, a savvy marketer, a zeitgeist strategist and dedicated to business and personal growth.  I’m a best-selling author and I’m dreadful at finance. But most of all have a down-to-earth quality that is just different.

In both business and life I believe that success is available to anybody, that ethics and profit are made for each other, and that if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing differently.

As a business person, my interests range from the enterprising mindset, SME business growth, curing common brands, savvy marketing, zeitgeist spotting, the emotion economy, ethical enterprises, generation Y customers, fearless innovation, women in business and enterprising teens.  Due to my international business experience I have much to comment about the global economy and why and how companies and individuals need to adjust to it.
 
As an entrepreneur, apart from founding and selling the world’s largest gap year travel company  I have since set up an ethical children’s party company - the first of its type in the UK. I therefore have a connection both with business audiences and those aspiring to become the next enterprising leaders. This is revealed in the huge amount of practical advice consisting of  both the successes and failures I encountered along the way. Audiences are left in no doubt that I know what I am talking about and take away much from my authentic wisdom.
 
As a commentator, author and speaker, I combine all of my life and business experience to create a memorable and helpful exchange of ideas. I passionately believe in helping each individual to survive the mental roller-coaster of business and life.