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Caroline Salmon BA hons, Msc Business Consultant
March 2007

Caroline has built a career about working with people to get the best out of themselves and their environment. She uses her 25+ years of business acumen and lateral thinking to solve problems with tenacity and creativity and is involved in the people development business having honed her skills by working with management development specialists and business support organisations. Working as an advisor and tutor on business and work:life balance issues. She has worked with many projects that have ensured that businesses did what they need to do to sustain and move their business forwards, and is a respected startup advisor, having worked with all major business support organizations in the South East when contracted as regional development manager for PRIME.

Caroline is a self-starter. She undertook a degree in 3D design at Camberwell, and won the Courtauld’s Prize for best textile student in her post graduate year. Craft subjects make little money, so she went into highclass fashion, and 3 yrs later was the youngest fashion retail manager on Knightsbridge . A desire for a more traditional business life, led her into working in the Law, Hotels, PR and Marketing, where her problem solving, research, and people skills were put to good use. She then became involved in setting up and growing a number of businesses, such as a 5* hotel, a security management consultancy and a kitchen company, before she became a freelace business consultant, working with various organizations that themselves often linked into business support and development. She has run EU and South East England Development Agency led projects, and has extensive knowledge of the South East including grants,loans and equity issues. She ran the first conference on Business Mentoring in the SE in 2005 and found, trained and piloted business mentors in W Sussex whilst ensuring effective business support for the 50+ throughout a network of partners across the region. Her networking and business development abilities are extensive.

In 2001 she obtained an MSc at Surrey University in Environmental Psychology, Which increased her interest in effective use of resources, communication of messages and business sustainability issues. These are well used in her position as District Councillor which she has held since 2002.

Her wealth of experience from a varied portfolio of occupations have culminated in her current lifestyle, where offers Interim Management at mid management level, within areas of her expertise, creating a quality product in relation to anything connected with problem solving, research, business support and development and project delivery.

In her spare time she is a respected artist, creating colourful expressive canvases.