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.
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.
Previous Clients
I support mentors with practical mentoring skills training to support businesses of all shapes and sizes, as well as work with HR departments in running highly beneficial mentoring programs guiding both mentors and mentees in larger organisations with structure and motivation. Here’s what a few of my previous clients have to say:
“Kerrie delivered an AMAZING problem solving workshop for Ultra Education to the Brent Blueprint Collective at The Worshipful Company of Cutlers. The Collective are the young ambassadors representing the Brent Borough of Culture 2020 programme. She kept them highly engaged and informed throughout the day and they came away with some real, actionable, golden nuggets. Kerrie is always ultra professional without being a bore, oozes personality and experience which I lean on when I need genuine insight. I would highly recommend Kerrie to anyone who needs a mentor, facilitator or business advisor who will bring a authentic voice into the room. “
“I recently completed the Level 2 Mentor Training with Kerrie and absolutely loved the structure and approach that she shared with us. I have informally mentored and coached many throughout my career, but wanted to validate my approach to ensure I was delivering the best value to my mentees. The real value though I got from engaging with Kerrie, was when she suggested that to demonstrate my ability, I should have a mentoring session with her – mentoring her. Though scared to death, it was absolutely brilliant and was a significant confidence booster to me and reinforced that I know what I am doing!:) Kerrie is a great teacher as well as mentor (and a good mentee!!) and I have learned so much from her and thank her for giving me the confidence to venture into the world of more formal business mentoring. DEFINITELY would recommend Kerrie to any individual, or corporation looking to learn about mentoring or starting their own mentoring program.“
“If you need help with kick starting your business or in fact at any stage of your business and need a task master – Kerrie is your person. She will help you see where you are and where you need/want to go then task you to get there, always looking at your bottom line.“
Blog
Mentoring: the art of keeping secrets
The lips of mentors should be kept firmly sealed shut, but keeping secrets is known for being a hugely difficult task. This begs the questions, how do mentors manage such an art form when listening to confidential information day in and day out? One of the golden...
Aha! moments – with Jim Keeling
Jim founded Corbett Keeling – Corporate Finance with integrity 25 years ago. It seems Jim has a few Aha! Moments however we focussed on the one that had really been embedded by his ancestry.
Aha! moments – with Chelsey Baker
A passionate Aha! Moment explored with Chelsey Baker when she came to the idea of a National Mentoring Day to thank and promote everyone in the mentoring space from school, professional and personal. Amazing Chelsey – Well done.
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