Colin Crooks MBE

Colin Crooks, MBE, is a serial social entrepreneur, lecturer and business adviser. He’s run five award-winning social enterprises employing more than 1,000 long-term unemployed people.  Green-Works gained the Queens Award for Enterprise; Sustainable Development. In 2012 he wrote ‘How to Make a Million Jobs, a charter for social enterprise’. From that he founded Tree Shepherd, which trained & supported hundreds of disadvantaged people to start their own business. In 2019 Colin was awarded an MBE for “services to disadvantaged people and the environment.” He currently mentors small businesses, delivers the UK government's Help to Grow programme, hosts a podcast called Stressing Values and has recently published Prosper with Purpose to help small businesses grow sustainably but with less stress. He lives in South London with his wife and has two grown up children.