CEO and co-founder of healthcare recruitment and retention platform Lifted.
“I was only 30 when we started Lifted in 2018. I’d never run a business before. Never been responsible for profit and loss. My background was in management consultancy and the civil service. I needed support and, when I stared working with Phil in 2019, he provided it.
He helped me find the practical skills and emotional tools I needed to manage an ever-growing staff and customer base, including dealing with some negative relationships. He made me more decisive, too.
Perhaps the main thing he gave me was self-belief. Lifted’s aim is to ease the UK’s care-recruitment crisis by finding high-quality staff from overseas and helping them settle in. Phil shared my vision that businesses should have a social impact and gave me the confidence that my firm had a powerful, meaningful purpose, as well as strong commercial potential.
He has helped me structure narratives for presentations to investors and think through the evidence I was presenting to show the business would be successful. He advises me on picking an effective fundraising strategy. I have raised over £8 million in investments and grants, subsequently.
He allowed me to identify my zone of genius, too. I’m good at fast, analytical thinking and motivating people to feel they are part of a movement for change, for instance. I live within that zone of genius far more now, rather than trying to be too many different things to different people.”
Lifted since working with Phil:
Rachel has also been named an Obama Foundation Leader, one of 36 people recognised globally for their contribution to social change.
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