I am currently living in Stamford, Lincs, working from home, helping frustrated entrepreneurs and professionals find their purpose, coaching and mentoring online and face-to-face. I am also arranging finance for property developers and embarking on a major project to build 5,000 homes for key workers.

My Fellowship in 2003 was about Intellectual Property Protection methods across the world and how people can protect ideas.

I was studying law at the time and I went on to qualify as a lawyer and practice Company Law and Intellectual Property (IP) Law, and I was interested in why the United States seems to have more ideas brought to market than anywhere else – apart from Scotland (Historically many inventions are from Scotland or Scots-born inventors.) Is IP protection a way forward for the UK to compete globally?

Being part of the Fellowship brought me into contact with lots of different people, and was a door-opener with a lot of influential contacts.