About Kiki
Kiki is the founder of KMC, and is an experienced enterprise & regeneration policy adviser, researcher and commentator. She is also a business & leadership coach as well as a national keynote speaker and conference facilitator. Kiki is a fully insured and licensed NLP Master Practitioner, and Business Master Practitioner.
From 2000 until recently, Kiki has been a policy consultant to government, serving in a number of ministries including the DfES’s Policy Innovation Unit, and the DTI’s Small Business Service. Last year she reported on the lessons learned from the national Phoenix Development Fund that innovated enterprise and business support for ‘enterprise gap’ groups including women and minorities. Kiki and her research team have also reported to the East Midlands Regional Development Agency (emda) on the business support experiences and needs of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women across the region.
Kiki has been engaged in small enterprise development since the mid-80s. More recently she has delivered Barclays’ national programme of marketing and business growth seminars to nearly 3,000 business owners. Kiki has also worked with Barclays’ financial inclusion team supporting the development of marketing skills for Credit Unions, bringing access to financial services to some of the poorest sections of society, as well as seminars on leadership and success strategies for businesswomen in Scotland on behalf of Lloyds TSB.
Kiki also uses her experience and knowledge to advise individual small firms on their business and marketing strategies, and top team development - especially succession planning. She is also a founding Director of the Centre for Growth in Women’s enterprise (CGWE), an international consultancy working with governments and strategic agencies, particularly within the developing world, to help them advance women’s enterprise to the benefit of their economies.
Kiki has a combined honours degree from the University of Southampton (1986-89), and is a post-graduate (MBA) of the University of Warwick’s Business School (full-time programme 1990-1991).
In November 2007 Kiki was appointed to the national Ethnic Minority Business Task Force, and is also a member of the Associate of the Institute of Business Advisers. She’s an experienced public appointee – most recently as Chair of South Central Connexions Partnership Ltd. She has also served on boards in the learning and skills, contemporary arts, FE and HE, housing, health, and community sectors, and appears regularly on the radio, TV and in the press.
In her spare time Kiki is a keen gardener, bird watcher and western riding enthusiast. She competes in the niche but growing sport of Reining with her American Quarter Horse, Snippers Soul Rebel (Ché).
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