Episode 60 - Susanna Lawson - CEO/Co-founder - OneFile Ltd

Susanna started her career as a psychology graduate from the University of Manchester, and went on to work with adults with learning difficulties. Susanna then had to complete a NVQ in care to prove her practical competencies – and her involvement in vocational training began. After completing her NVQ levels 2 and 3, she soon moved up the ranks, and was appointed the National Contract Manager for an independent training provider, responsible for over 1,000 apprentices across the UK. Throughout her journey she witnessed huge inefficiencies at every stage of the sector, and decided with her partner to build a solution: OneFile. OneFile has developed from an idea into the leading eportfolio software in the education sector. OneFile has grown from a 2 person, back bedroom start up to over 80 staff and with over 1.3m users from the States to the Middle East. Susanna is an ambassador for the international vocational training community, delivering presentations at the Transatlantic Apprenticeship Exchange Forum and the American Association of Colleges’ national conference. After graduating from the prestigious Goldman Sachs 10ksb undergraduate and ambassador business programme she was asked to be mentor on the Santander Breakthrough in Business programme, mentoring other SMEs on the challenges they were facing. Amongst many other awards, Onefile was awarded the Queens Award for Innovation in 2017 and won CIPD People Management Initiative in 2019. Susanna personally has won Forward Ladies/HSBC Business Woman of the Year and EVAs/Natwest Outstanding Achievement.  OneFile is also in The Times Top 100 companies to work for in 2021 @SusannaOneFile (twitter)   https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanna-lawson/    www.onefile.co.uk Basic format – 20 minutes to help you on your leadership journey   PLEASE ENJOY   Make sure you follow/subscribe to my social media platforms -   Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/STARDevelopmentuk/  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-waddington-1882b4aa/  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/stuart_waddington/?hl=en  YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/LeadershipWhatsonyourmind  Spotify - #Leadership – What’s on your mind?   See you next week…..