Paula Gardner

Do Your Own PR: www.doyourownpr.com

Paula started her career in the glamorous world of the music business PR in the early 1990s and by the middle of the decade had her own agency. Her clients ranged from top London restaurant 'L'Escargot' to national travel companies.

In 2002 she set up 'Do Your Own PR' to train and aid businesses who cannot afford outside PR help.

Clients range from start-ups to established companies who need to invest time and focus on their own PR if they are to expand their business and increase growth. Paula recently launched another PR agency, 'Divine Publicity', specialising in press promotion for the women's, parenting and food & drinks sector.

Diane Rosewarne MCIPD

Rosewarnes Human Resource Solutions www.rosewarnes-hr.co.uk

RHRS is a small Company established by Diane Rosewarne who is a Chartered Member of Institute of Personnel and Development. She has a number of years experience in Human Resources both in Public and Private Sectors and has worked with start up Companies and larger Companies employing up to 500 staff. Diane has experience of setting up HR systems ensuring compliance with Employment Law. Her expertise lies in giving guidance on how to ensure that staff are motivated, empowered and ensuring that your existing business goals are achieved and surpassed.

Jennifer Potts ACIM ACIPR

Fresh Start Marketing: www.freshstartmarketing.co.uk

Jennifer is Managing Consultant of Fresh Start Marketing, a rapidly growing consultancy which focuses on helping small to medium-sized businesses and entrepreneurs to implement marketing, not only as a promotional medium for generating sales leads, but as a holistic (whole-business) philosophy which focuses on delivering and communicating value to customers in a cost-effective manner.

Jennifer started her marketing career at a PR agency, before moving to a full-service marketing communications agency where she quickly took on management of major accounts as well as business development. Having succeeded agency-side, Jennifer spent two years as an in-house marketing manager for a leading brand, with a responsibility for a global marketing strategy.

Dean Shepherd

MMI: www.mmi-online.co.uk

Dean has been in the accountancy profession for almost 10 years and is the Director of MMI, an accountancy firm offering an added value accountancy services to its clients. His main areas of expertise are tax minimisation strategies for sole traders, partnerships and limited companies and the provision of help and support for new business start-ups.

Dean specialises in helping young people in the creative industries set up their own businesses. He regularly lectures on tax and accounting at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London and he is also a regular contributor to a number of online forums for general tax and accounting advice.

Dean believes in offering a high level of personal service and getting actively involved in the development of his clients� business.

Diana Gibbs, BA; Dip.Gen Mgt; MCMI; NLP Business Practitioner

KD Partnership: www.kdpartnership.co.uk

Diana Gibbs, formerly an operations manager with the 'BBC', is the founding partner of KD Partnership, a management development consultancy. KDP was designed to develop people for senior management, taking them from first principles to strategic planning and leadership a skilled coach and facilitator, Diana enjoys developing her business to support both clients and consulting partners.

Specifically she works with new and existing senior management teams, facilitating growth and coaching people in the skills that will enable them to be an effective leader and be successfully.

Maitland Kalton

Kaltons Solicitors: www.kaltons.co.uk

Maitland is an English solicitor and trained New York attorney, Director of Islington Enterprise Agency and the founder of Kaltons a niche based technology law firm. Maitland is also the founder and chair of 'Lawyers for Change', a legal professional movement committed to transforming the role of law and lawyers into being positive contributors to society.

He has lectured on legal matters for over 15 years through 'Business Link', many local enterprise agencies, 'Prince's Trust Training and Employment' (now Threshold), 'DAWN' and many other commercial conference and seminar providers.

Mark Barrett B.Sc (Hons)

GL Hearn: www.glhearn.com

Mark is a Retail Surveyor working at 'GL Hearn', and he is involved in many different facets of the property industry including Valuation, Rating, Agency and Rating, Planning, Space Auditing, Agency, Asset Management Landlord and Tenant agreements. He is an integral member of the team at GL Hearn, which is a modern independent and multi-skilled consultancy. Clients are drawn from the public and private sectors and include occupiers, owners of offices, retail, industrial and distribution premises.

David Grayson CBE

Director: Business in the Community, UK
Principal: The BLU
Chairman: UK Small Business Consortium to promote environmental and social responsibility to small firms.

David speaks and writes regularly on "Responsible Business" "Corporate Citizenship" and "Global Trends". The Financial Times has described him as: "one of the UK's most respected voices on business social responsibility".

His previous roles include Chairman of the UK's National Disability Council; Chairman of the UK Government's Business Link Accreditation Advisory Board; joint Managing-Director: Business in the Community; Director of The Prince of Wales Innovation Award; and joint MD of the Prince's Youth Business Trust. Co-founder of Project North East.

He is the author of "Everybody's Business: Managing Risks and Opportunities in to-day's global society" (with Adrian Hodges) - Dorling Kindersley and The Financial Times (2001); and "Corporate Social Opportunity: Seven Steps to Make Corporate Social Responsibility work for your business" (Greenleaf - 2004) - also with Adrian Hodges.

Dawn Winder

I-Define: www.i-define.co.uk

Founder Dawn Winder is a London based coach, professional speaker, communication and confidence expert.

Dawn is uniquely gifted at helping clients and audiences leverage their experiences and expertise, define their unique message and strengthen their ability to inspire and influence. She uses branding strategies and coaching techniques with her clients enabling them to communicate with confidence, enabling them to breeze through client interviews, capitalise on networking events, win new business pitches and generate continual success.

Dawn writes regularly for the handbag.com 'your business' channel where she helps women define what makes them unique in order to develop a competitive edge. Dawn contributes to fashion capital and London fashion forum.