I have been an entrepreneur living by the motto ‘Give it a go, or you will never know!’ I am prone to diving in to see if I will sink or swim. Both happened. I successfully sold three small businesses, with experience across a variety of industries: recruitment, bars and restaurants, beauty, retail, and online gifts and a not-for-profit association. I started the first business at the age of 20, and have a wealth of real-world experience, both in Australia and the UK, employing up to 50 at any one time. I have learnt so many lessons, felt success and failure, which I openly talk about when I speak and write. As a business mentor, I can recognise core business flaws and implement strategies to rectify them and stimulate success. 

I was introduced to mentoring post my last successful business sale, and whilst realising I had a lot of experience to share with business owners and their teams, I had no support or guidance in what I was doing.

I found running a business is a very different skill to mentoring someone else to effectively run, grow and overcome the challenges of theirs.

I founded the Association of Business Mentors to provide mentors with exactly that, mentoring skills and training that allows them to be professional mentors as well as have the business experience that is so vital in helping them to become, grow and develop as professional business mentors. My other aim with founding the ABM, but equally important, was to give reassurance to mentees that they are in safe hands with a trusted and experienced ABM professional business mentor.