A little bit about me

“Rob is one of the foremost people in social business today. When he speaks, people listen.

His insight, his willingness to challenge and his honesty make him a stand-out character. Unusually he has a the helicopter view while never straying far from the coalface-reality.

This makes him rare, and of huge value to any business”

Craig Dearden-Phillips, Founding CEO of Speaking Up

My experience

I worked for a fair trade social enterprise for 6 years, and experienced all the ups and downs of social business during that time. I then worked for two social enterprise support agencies in Yorkshire, before becoming self-employed in 2005.

I've worked with all sorts of social businesses - in sectors including older people's services, local food, recycling and fair trade. I find myself increasingly drawn to green businesses - and social entrepreneurs working outside of the third sector.

linkedin Logo

Why not have a look at my LinkedIn Profile

I like to help people help themselves

In other words, I help people to work things out for themselves so that they don't need me anymore. I do that through running workshops and training sessions, through one-to-one support on social business issues, and through helping social entrepreneurs to come up with no-nonesense social business plans. I also offer strategic consultancy to organisations which want to offer support to social enterprises.

Yet more than anything, I offer honest, unfiltered thoughts, feelings and opinions, inspired by years of trying to work out how to get better at achieving social change.