Ways to work with me
What I do
Six areas of work. Our first chat is always free.
Training and coaching
Training, coaching and the tools to build inclusive environments: welcoming to everyone, flexible, and offering choices when one solution cannot meet everyone’s needs. Executive coaching on business growth, inclusion, diversity, health and wellbeing.
Events
Spectacular, international, ground breaking events that bring together business and industry leaders, supporters, friends and guests to celebrate diversity and inclusion. Cultural and leadership events with a difference, made accessible from the start.
Consultancy and workforce retention
Bespoke guidance for organisations and entrepreneurs, frameworks for inclusion in the workplace, and practical in-work support that keeps good people, whether office based or working from home.
Speaking and thought leadership
Keynotes, panels, white papers and research collaborations, plus non executive and advisory roles. Shared with international and national organisations, local government and universities.
Parliament
Secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Inclusive Entrepreneurship, evidence to select committee enquiries, and calls to action to government.
Academia
Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck CIMR, research collaborator with Lancaster University, and co-author of academic papers and conference presentations.
1. Training and coaching
Training, coaching and the tools to build inclusive environments: welcoming to everyone, flexible, and offering choices when one solution cannot meet everyone’s needs. Executive coaching on business growth, inclusion, diversity, health and wellbeing.
2. Events
Spectacular, international, ground breaking events that bring together business and industry leaders, supporters, friends and guests to celebrate diversity and inclusion. Cultural and leadership events with a difference, made accessible from the start.
3. Consultancy and workforce retention
Bespoke guidance for organisations and entrepreneurs, frameworks for inclusion in the workplace, and practical in-work support that keeps good people, whether office based or working from home.
Framework for Inclusion Workforce Retention Programme In-work support
4. Speaking and thought leadership
Keynotes, panels, white papers and research collaborations, plus non executive and advisory roles. Shared with international and national organisations, local government and universities.
5. Parliament
What her site records about her work with Parliament and government:
- Secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Inclusive Entrepreneurship. See the APPG page.
- The APPG for Inclusive Entrepreneurship was set up in July 2020 to ensure that Parliament is fully informed on what is needed to create and sustain the most beneficial conditions for Inclusive economic growth. It is now merged with the APPG for Disability.
- Universal Inclusion Call for Evidence to submit to The Work & Pensions Committee Enquiry, Disability Employment Gap, December 2020.
- Call for Support for Disabled People in Enterprise within BEIS, July 2019.
- Recommendations to the Chancellor & DWP. See Influencing policy.
- Ahead of the Arc: a Contribution to Halving the Disability Employment Gap, APPG on Disability, 2016 (PDF).
- UK APPGD: 2030 Agenda Paradigm Shift for Disabled People through Inclusive Economic growth, 2017/16.
- International Women’s Day Westminster: Inclusive Entrepreneurship, 2016.
- Global Entrepreneurship Week Westminster: Inclusive Economic Growth, 2016.
- Advisory Board Chair / Member: UK APPG Women in Enterprise.
- Ambassador / Diversity Lead: 5050 Parliament.
- Delivered a virtual webinar on disability issues in day to day human resource management to human resource managers of the European Parliament.
6. Academia
What her site records about her academic work and research:
- Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck Centre of Innovation Management Research (CIMR). Read the announcement.
- Research Associate & Co-author, Inclusive Hybrid & Working Study, Lancaster University, 2022.
- Research Collaborator with Dr Paula Holland, Principal Investigator, and Dr Cara Molyneux, Snr Research Associate, Lancaster University, 2022: research with small and micro-sized employers, and research with entrepreneurs who are disabled or have long-term health conditions.
- Research collaborator: The changing workplace: Enabling disability-inclusive hybrid working, Work Foundation, Lancaster University, 2022.
- Co-author: Barriers and Opportunities to creating innovation and enterprise faced by disabled people: An exploratory study, Innovation Caucus, Oct 2023.
- Co-author: Navigating serial inequities: disabled workers’ experiences of becoming entrepreneurs (PDF), Sept 2022.
- Co-author: Inclusive Entrepreneurship: A Critical look at Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, in The International Journal of Business & Economic Development, November 2020, volume 8, Issue 02.
- Literature Review for Manuscript From Beginning to Presentation (PDF).
- Chaired the Birkbeck CIMR debate on Unlocking the Potential of Disabled Entrepreneurs, September 2021, and Co-Chair of the CIMR debate “Endless possibilities: what roles will universities play in new hybrid ways of creating inclusive entrepreneurship?”, 2022.
- Presentation of Co-Authored Paper during the International Conference & Graduate Colloquium 2021 (ICGC), Pakistan, April 6, 2021.
- Acknowledgement: Helen Lawton Smith, CIMR Birkbeck London, Addressing regional inequalities in innovation opportunities for ethnically diverse and disabled entrepreneurs, 2022.