Helene is the founder and CEO of leading women’s network the Pink Shoe Club, which hosts regular enterprise forums for women as well as an Annual Enterprise Summit & Debate. She is also a Chief Adviser to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Entrepreneurship, which she helped establish.
Helene sits on the Entrepreneurship Advisory Board for the Technology Strategy Board, the Advisory Board for the Institute for Creative & Cultural Enterprise (ICCE) at Goldsmiths College(University of London) and is a non-executive director and media commentator.
Previously Chief of Staff and Special Adviser to Lord Ahmed, and before that to Lord Taylor of Warwick, she has worked at the centre of Government for over 14 years. She was a founding member of Conservative Business Relations, a member of the government think tank on small business and a contributor to the Schwab Foundation report on social enterprise.
As Head of Government Relations and Diversity for Hays, in 2006 Helene created the Hays Executive Inclusion Network and Leadership Programme. Helene has also been an adviser to the Shadow Cabinet on diversity and to Tessa Sanderson CBE, helping set up the Tessa Sanderson National Youth Academy to train young people for the 2012 Olympic games.
A serial entrepreneur, in 2005 Helene established Eat:Fit, a social enterprise providing healthy snacks to over 200 UK schools. She has won several awards, including the RSA T-Mobile Award and a Kids Helene has been a judge at the National Business Awards for five years, including judging Entrepreneur of the Year.
Helene is a Fellow of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, a Fellow of the RSA, a Charter Member of global entrepreneurs network TiE, and a longstanding committee member of Save the Children Fund.
