Enterprise
Learning Difficulties
Revision
Resilience
Leadership
After leaving school at the age of 16 with a handful of ‘O’ levels, her teachers told her she wouldn’t amount to much.
Now, with more than 21 years’ business ownership and management experience, she is regularly called upon to inspire teams, enlighten conference audiences and influence key decision makers with sensible enterprise solutions.
Rebecca is not too proud to admit that her first business at 19 was an unmitigated disaster, but having learnt from this experience she has since gone on to be a successful business owner and author of women’s business start-up book ‘Business in Red Shoes’.
Rebecca sets a great example to students with learning difficulties and helps them find a style of learning which can help them achieve above and beyond the expectations they may have for themselves.
Q: If you weren’t a speaker, what do you think you’d be?
I always wanted to be a chocolatier, I’m not sure I would be one but maybe something to do with food. If I hadn’t changed my attitude to work, learning and life I probably would be sat on the sofa unemployed eating chocolate. So glad I’m not I have a fab job.
Q: What was your favourite subject in school and why?
Pottery, I think because we could be creative, think differently and create our own thing. I also loved Art and Design my only ever A in a qualification was Art and Design. The teachers actually liked me in those classes probably because I liked the topic and did the work.
Q: If you could change one thing you did as a young person, what would it be?
I wish I had taken school a bit more seriously, although I have since learnt it is never to late to learn you just have to want to do it.
British Values covered
- Rule of law
- Mutual respect