YOUR PANELLISTS

KATE RICHARDSON works at UBS Wealth Management, assisting a growing number of sophisticated clients with their personal wealth management requirements. Kate has worked for UBS Wealth Management since 2006 . Kate holds a First Class Honours Business Management and Psychology degree.
GILL EASTGATE is Managing Director at NKD Clothing and has many years experience in running and growing a successful business. Gill has been Creative Young Entrepreneur Award Junior Chamber International Scotland and semi-finalist in Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award.
JENNY CAMPBELL specialises in leadership and executive coaching across private, public and entrepreneurial sectors. Clients include board and senior executives working in partnership on health inequalities; senior executives working on career expansion; educational leaders; senior executives and senior teams.
VAL WISHART Many Chartered Accountants are, be honest, dull and largely restrict themselves to 'bean counting'! Val is a breath of fresh air and has a wealth of business experience which allows her to understand the real requirements and needs of entrepreneurs.
After a long career as a tax consultant JACKIE CAMERON wanted to "work with other people to make a difference" – which is still her mission. Jackie has coached clients from all types of organisations including business owners, directors, educational leaders, new managers and recent graduates.
KAREN BIRCH has founded and grown entrepreneurial businesses for the past 20 years. She is a powerful advocate for women in business and is founder of the3rdi magagazine and the driving force behind the Fair Comment project.
The Women's Fund is chaired by BETH EDBERG and promotes women’s growth, self-sufficiency and socio-economic equality. Throughout Scotland communities have been transformed by the imagination, activities and commitment of women championed by the Women’s Fund for Scotland.
BONNIE CLARKE the Director for Scotland for Badenoch & Clark, an internationally recognised; award winning leader in professional services recruitment. Bonnie was recently been awarded the HR Network Scotland Recruitment Consultant of the Year.
MICHELLE RODGER is a former national newspaper journalist, a business founder, communications consultant and supporter of young entrepreneurship initiatives across Scotland. Michelle writes a weekly column for Scotland on Sunday, focusing on the challenges and rewards of being an entrepreneur and issues affecting SMEs.
JACKIE WARING is a recognised expert and experienced researcher on women’s enterprise. Jackie is currently working with clients and colleagues to support more women to board level / senior positions and increasing the focus on the business and cultural benefits of diversity in organisations.
FIONA GIFFORD has over 20 years’ experience delivering strategic change and performance improvement to global corporations (NEC, Motorola and RBS Group). Fiona has a passion for creating and developing the conditions for performance excellence through coaching and working with leaders, teams and individuals.
As former head of Women in Business at Bank of Scotland
CLARE LOGIE has been at the very heart of issues important to women throughout her career. Now Strategic Director at Independent Women Clare provides top notch financial services for female clients across the UK.
As owner and founding director of Turquoise Insight
RUTH WALKER specialises in helping organisations and individuals achieve successful progress and change through strategy development and mentoring. Ruth has a particular interest in the charity sector and in mentoring and coaching younger leaders.
JANE BUICK is MD at Miascape and is passionate about people and an expert in thinking. Lets face it "people" run the show but thinking runs people. The Miascape brand has become synonymous with powerful value adding interventions wherever the Miascape approach is applied.
MAIRI MORRISON is Vice President at Scottish Women in Business and Business Development Manager at Sense Scotland, where she is responsible for developing new enterprise and business opportunities. Sense Scotland has been working for over 20 years with children and adults who have communication support needs.
HEATHER ALEXANDER is past President of Scottish Women in Business and Director at Clearsight Consulting. "When working with my customers, my aim is to help them work out how technology could make their businesses more effective or bigger or easier to manage or... whatever they need to support their business goals. "
BELINDA OLDFIELD is regulatory and strategy professional whose background includes experience in regulation, civil engineering, public health, the environment, corporate risk management and sustainability. She has an MBA and an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering. Her skills include regulation and risk management.
JACKIE LOUGHERY is founder of Oryx, a company that helps organisations to communicate with the people who matter; to increase productivity and creativity by helping teams within organisations - and stakeholders in the wider community - speak to each other
Through her current role at SIE, FIONA GODSMAN is a passionate advocate of the Scottish life sciences sector and student enterprise. She is inspired by the passion and enthusiasm of Scotland’s young entrepreneurs and is a powerful networker who loves to put people in touch with others who can help and inspire them.
LOUIE GARDINER is the founding partner of Potent 6. Uniquely working across the spectrum of experienced executives, top-teams and high potential, aspiring leaders within organisations and communities, Louie creates a context that supports all to self-empower.
JOEY WALTERS is founder of Women at the Heart of Leadership Community - an evolutionary learning community for feminine leaders who want to access and lead from their authentic power as women and bring their greatest contributions to life.
LYNNE McNICOLL co-founder of It’s Good to Give! and currently Scotland’s Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year. As Lynne turned 49 she set herself the challenge to raise £10,000 for charity - by her 50th birthday she had raised £54,000!
MARGOT GRANTHAM is Regional Director at the Athena Network and Business Development Director at WDGResearch which for over twenty years has offered market research solutions to leading fmcg, automotive, B2B and finance clients.
SUZANNE LAMONT is a highly regarded Organisation Development Consultant who has worked extensively in USA and Europe and also in the Middle East, Latin America, Singapore and Russia. "My goal is to add value. I work with leaders and their teams to improve the effectiveness of their organisations".
Please Note: Panellists, between 8-10 per session, will be chosen from the list above. Not all panellist will be present on every occassion.