Pivots & Plot Twists

Claire Goodwin-Fee is the founder and CEO of Frontline19 a charity supporting the NHS and frontline emergency workers. Started as a response to the pandemic as a small short-term project to offer support to around 50 people, they now support over 9000 frontline workers every week. Her life has changed dramatically from a small solo business to a global advocate for mental health and frontline work...

Founder of The HR Club - a membership of over 100 women strong - and creator of The HR Big Meet - an annual conference focusing on the wellbeing of women in HR - Emma Djemil is on a mission to change the world of work so that everyone can thrive. Passionately believing that no one should go home from work worse than when they arrived, Emma uses her natural abilities to help people do the things th...

Barbara Churchill has helped inspire thousands of people to find their next phase and create the career and life they crave. As a Master Certified Life Coach for female leaders and entrepreneurs and host of the popular podcast 'Create What You Crave' she uses her expertise in Imposter Syndrome, Relationship Building, Communication and Mindset to help her clients experience deep transformation. Her...

Neve is currently the Group Marketing Director and Exec Team member at Busaba and a Board Director at Mytime Active. She is a marketing leader with extensive experience planning and executing global innovative brand marketing and communication plans across hospitality, retail, luxury, FMCG and fashion sectors. Neve has held Senior Executive Leadership roles since her mid 20’s and believes that mar...

Helen Tite is an award-winning proven motivational leader in the fitness sector with a national and international profile and the entrepreneurial acumen to deliver difference- making results across the broadest client base in many sectors. She is enthusiastic, ebullient and with an indefatigable work ethic that combines with excellent communication skills to build effective relationships. Topics w...

Jen Corcoran is a LinkedIn expert. She is on a mission to help sensitive, introverted and empathic female coaches, consultants and trainers to toot their horns on LinkedIn in an aligned, easy and fun way. She helps them super boost their LinkedIn profiles, make genuine connections and attract consistent ideal clients using my 4-stage PACT framework (Presence – Action – Connect – Track). They’re le...

Lottie is a Creative Virtual Assistant and OBM. She helps female entrepreneurs and leaders by offering a variety of services including digital marketing, operations, event planning, podcasts and all things organisation. Lottie’s background is in hospitality where she studied International Hospitality Management at University, following this she worked on board superyachts working for billionaires,...

Karen has enjoyed long and successfully diverse career across a broad range of sectors. Starting 26 years ago in retail working in fashion, beauty, childrenswear and sport - including M&S, Kingfisher, Burton Group, Mothercare and JJB Sports - she built a reputation as a formidable sales driver, leadership role model and innovator. Moving into the pub sector 10 years ago working for Greene King...

Jackie Moody-McNamara - Independent Director, Coach and Researcher who in 2018 founded ‘Turn the Key’ a development practice that facilitates growth and unlocks potential, delivering engaging, practical and results focused career, leadership and performance solutions. In a ‘Bar to Boardroom’ hospitality career, Jackie’s enjoyed over twenty-years of Board-level experience, working with Private, PE,...

Katherine is the Founder of The Pocket Strategist, a straight-talking strategic consultancy empowering entrepreneurs with the tools for lasting business success. She has nearly 20 years of hands-on experience in managing people, projects and operations, has worked strategically with dozens of small businesses from start-ups to 7-figure turnovers, and is a certified Business Manager and Director of...

On this episode, we are in conversation with Lou Jones. Lou has a steller background in the hospitality industry and worked with many well known brands such as Pret a manger, M&S, Matthew Algie & The Montpellier Group. She worked as head of customer training for over 20 years. After many years working in corportate hospitality Lou decided to start her own cafe and alongisde her husband, ru...

On this episode, we are in conversation with Sarah Jespon, founder of Six Degrees Community. Sarah Jepson is the founder of rapidly growing female-only community, Six Degrees and is also the CEO of Attention Marketing, a PR and marketing agency with over ten years experience helping market well-known brands in the South West and London. Sarah is passionate about female empowerment and is on a miss...

On this episode, we are in conversation with Louisa Fitzpatrick. Louisa Fitzpatrick is Co-owner of Old Chapel Cellars Wine Merchant in Truro, the first in the UK to gain B Corp certification. A friendly wine shop with regular tastings, online wine subscription service, supplier to the local hospitality industry and a Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) registered course provider. Louisa joine...

On this episode, we are in conversation with Helen Bailey. Helen Bailey has been working in research and hospitality for over 30 years. Helen launched Aviatrix as a way to elevate the way companies connect with their customers. Her extensive experience in hospitality, travel & leisure started in the restaurant business, having owned and operated five successful restaurants. Helen is also an ex...

On this week's episode, we are joined by Resh Sonchhatla - founder of Chapati Club. After working in the private equity sector for many years, Resh decided to leave her well paid career to follow her passion and open up an Indian restaurant with her partner, Heena. "As gay women of colour, we were initially wary of being an 'out and proud' LGBTQ+ business, but quickly found that this was a strengt...

On this episode, we are in conversation with recruitment owner, Helen Plumridge. Helen Plumridge is Founder and Owner of King – a leading pro-active recruitment and search firm based in the Southwest and London. Helen started in recruitment 20 years ago, and has always had an unrelenting passion to drive the growth of businesses and careers with a down to earth, honest and professional approach. H...

On this episode, we are in conversation with the incredible Ann Elliott. Ann is a portfolio Non-Executive Director and Board Advisor specialising in the hospitality sector. She co-founded Plan B mentoring, sits on the UKH events committee, is an Arena board member, organises the annual Propel Women Leaders and Entrepreneurs conference and is a regular speaker and contributor at industry events. Sh...

Welcome to Pivots & Plot Twists. On this episode, we are in conversation with the glorious Kate Ashmore, founder of Rebel HR. Topics we discuss: Going self employed Best pieces of advice about going self employed How to find clients Advice to younger self Was the pandemic good for companies' culture and have these companies learnt anything from the pandemic? Creating a positive work environmen...