Rachel Bowditch , London, United Kingdom

You're looking for a trusted pairs of hands who can jump straight in. Someone who can quickly get to grips with things – balancing both tactical and strategic considerations to help move your business forward. Someone with hard management skills and kudos, but who's pragmatic and get things done with a smile. Someone who excels at managing change, who loves tackling the tough stuff and making businesses work better.

I'm Rachel Bowditch and I'm a business nerd. There, I said it!

Strong analytical skills, along with programme and change management, are key strengths for me. You can find me equally at home helping growing start-ups scale through to leading large regulatory financial services programmes and M&A work. I create processes and tools that will help your organisation grow - rather than documents that gather dust and reports no one reads. I can speak "plain English" and tech speak, comfortably translating between the two.

Along with my consultancy work, I'm founder of several businesses. I know the real practicality of running a business and not just the theory.

Whatever role I take, one of the key legacies I always leave is a more motivated and engaged team awake to the possibilities of their business. My reputation for this even resulted in me delivering the graduation address at my alma mater, Monash University.