Susie Warran-Smith

Susie Warran-Smith CBE DL is an English author, broadcaster and speaker, renowned for her work in supporting small businesses and female entrepreneurs. She was the founder and sole owner of the multiple award-winning Breakthrough Group, which she grew from a two-person operation in 2015 to a highly profitable multi-million pound business which she sold to EY (Ernst and Young) in 2020. In the process she won multiple awards including Business Woman of the Year and was awarded a CBE in Queen Elizabeth II's New Year Honours list for services to small businesses. Her book "Swimming on my own" is the story of how she grew her business from scratch and a plea for the business world to recognise the power of kindness and equality. Her second book "How to run a business in sensible shoes" was an immediate number one bestseller which she describes as "Erin Brokovich meets Fleabag but with invoices".