About
Everyone has a unique business journey. No matter where you are in that journey, the right strategy can help you reach your goals and create more freedom in your life.
My Story
As an accountant, Finance Director and business owner, numbers have only ever been part of what I see when I look at a business.
I've always been able to spot what's working, what isn't, and where something needs to change.
I discovered just how valuable that was quite early in my career.
I was working as an accountant in a £15m company that was losing money, and when a new Managing Director joined, I told him what I could see was going wrong — across the business, not just in the accounts — and what I thought needed to change.
He listened.
More importantly, he gave me the opportunity to put it right.
At 28, I was promoted to Finance Director — the youngest person and first woman to hold the role in the company — and together we made those changes.
The business went from loss-making to highly profitable and grew from £15m to £35m.
And we didn't stop there.......
We acquired other businesses in the same industry and I found I could do exactly the same thing again: quickly understand what was really happening inside a business, identify what was holding it back and focus on the changes that would make the biggest difference.
Eventually, we'd built a group of companies worth around £150m.
And I hadn't taken the conventional route to get there.
I didn't go to university. I left school, went to work and spent years studying in my own time to become a qualified accountant.
So while the qualification gave me the technical knowledge, working inside businesses taught me something much bigger: how businesses actually work.
How the numbers connect to the decisions being made every day.
How pricing affects profit. How processes affect people. How people affect customers. How growth can actually make a business poorer. And how something that looks like a financial problem can have its real cause somewhere completely different.
That ability to look at the whole business — rather than one problem in isolation — has shaped everything I've done since.
From Big Business to Small Business
When I eventually left the corporate world and started my own accountancy business, the numbers got smaller.
The problems didn't.
Over the years I've worked with hundreds of business owners and seen the same patterns appear again and again.
Brilliant businesses that don't make enough profit.
Busy businesses that never seem to have enough cash.
Owners working ridiculous hours because everything depends on them.
Businesses growing without really knowing whether that growth is making them better off.
And incredibly capable people trying to figure all of this out as they go along.
Because here's the slightly ridiculous thing about starting a business:
Nobody teaches you how to run one.
You can spend years learning your profession or becoming brilliant at what you do. Then you start a business and suddenly you're expected to understand pricing, cash flow, marketing, people, systems, profitability, leadership, strategy and everything else that comes with it.
That's why I created Business Wealth Academy.
It's my way of taking what I've learned over more than 30 years — from turning around struggling companies to running my own business and helping hundreds of others — and making it accessible to business owners who were never taught this stuff.
Not complicated theory.
Not corporate jargon.
And definitely not finance lessons that require an accounting qualification to understand them.
Just practical business learning that helps you see what's really happening in your business, understand what needs to change and actually do something about it.
Because sometimes a relatively small change in the right place can transform an entire business.
And knowing where to look is half the battle.
More profit. More control. More freedom.
Why I Do It
I have always had a passion for helping people, and as 80% of small businesses fail, it brings me great satisfaction to help clients beat those odds.
But working one-to-one with clients restricts how many businesses I can reach, so I decided to set up the Business Wealth Academy, which would allow me to impact the success of so many more business owners.
Why make the mistakes that others make every day in business when you can learn how to do it properly.
