Sarah Walker-Smith is the CEO of law firm Shakespeare Martineau and professional services group Ampa. Sarah was the first female non-lawyer CEO in the legal top 50 and was recently named as the UK’s most influential legal leader on social media.


A trained accountant having worked for PWC and Deloitte, Sarah strongly believes that ‘good business’ is both purposeful and profitable, often with one leading to the other.


Sarah is a governor at Nottingham Trent University, is a member of the Society of Leadership Fellows at St George’s House and is on the board of the West Midlands CBI Council as well as non-exec chair of Radikl, a scale-up business supporting female entrepreneurs’ growth and success to investment funds.


She also presents a leadership vlog from her garden shed called ‘Shed Life’.


Website: www.shma.co.uk


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