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A serial entrepreneur (mostly successful!) with businesses in hospitality, beauty, recruitment, high street and online retail, mentoring and founder of the Association of Business Mentors.

Kerrie is an entrepreneur who has grown and successfully sold a number of SME businesses in a variety of Industries; recruitment, bar and restaurant, beauty, retail and gift products. She started the first of her six businesses at the age of 20, and has a wealth of real-world experience, both in Australia and the UK employing up to 25 at any one time. She has experienced success and failure. She can recognise core business flaws and can implement strategies to rectify them and stimulate success.
What’s Next?
A people person
I hired my first employee when I was 21 years old. My first lesson, which I learnt very quickly was that clear and friendly communication is key to building a happy, productive team.
Learning
We are never too old to learn. Currently, I am on a course with Coach Shirzad called Positive Intelligence and learning a lot about myself and how I come across.
Keynote speaker & podcaster
I love sharing my stories. I have been lucky enough to engage audiences of all shapes and sizes online and in person across the UK and Europe. My podcast show explores other peoples.
ABM Founder & Chief Ambassador
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.

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