Still just getting started.

I founded BUD Leaders twelve years ago because I kept watching the same thing happen. Brilliant women (Black women, Global Majority women, women whose CVs would have opened any door) getting locked out of the rooms where decisions about money got made.

Not for lack of talent. Not for lack of ambition. For lack of access.

I built BUD Leaders to change who gets in those rooms. And I built the Black Fearless Female brand because once you are in, you need tools, networks, and a way of being that does not ask permission.

BUD Leaders is a UK social enterprise that backs Black and Global Majority women-led SMEs to grow, win work, and build lasting economic power. For over a decade we have worked with founders and partners to move significant capital into businesses that the system was too slow to back.

Black Fearless Female (BFF) is the brand and the philosophy. It is the daily practice of building wealth and worth without waiting for permission. The BFF Coach, trained on my method and powered by AI, makes that practice tangible.

And in autumn 2026 my debut novel, The Diary of an Ally and a 'Diverse' Business, lands. It is the work in story form: for the founders fighting to be seen, and the allies with the power to change who gets seen.

Alongside the work, I am a trustee of the Tudor Trust and hold a Level 7 in Systems Thinking, the discipline behind how I read and rebuild the systems that decide who gets access.

In 2026 I received an OBE for services to social enterprise. Standing in Windsor Castle for the Investiture, listening to the trumpets, was frankly surreal.

But the recognition is not mine alone. It belongs to every founder I have worked with, every partner who has backed the mission, every community that has held me up. And it belongs to every Black woman who has ever doubted her worth, felt overlooked, or wondered whether she would be invited into the room.

The honour reinforced something I already knew: the work is not done. There are still significant barriers to equity. I remain committed to helping dismantle them.