SIMONE ROCHE MBE
Simone Roche MBE is founder of Northern Power Women, the PoWEr Up Collective CIC and the PoWEr Platform. A community of 85,000, organically grown by Simone herself that spans all sectors, genders and socio-economic groups. She also founded the largest celebration of gender equality in Europe: The Northern Power Women Awards celebrating role models and trailblazers. The PoWEr Collective has enabled 20,000 conversations and created almost £1million in social value through running PoWEr Up Mentoring & Networking sessions open to all.
She joined the Royal Navy at 18 as a radio operator, scaling the ranks up to Lieutenant, before taking on roles including conference manager at Aintree Racecourse, head of sales at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, deputy general manager of operations for the build of the new Echo Arena in Liverpool, looking after sponsors for London 2012 as a client services manager and then director for Women 1st. Simone is passionate about gender diversity and championing all talent and believes in the ‘art of the possible’.
Simone was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2018 for services to gender equality and appointed Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy in June 2020 and promoted to Captain in July 2021. Simone has been recognised on the Yahoo Finance Heroes List 2018, 19, 20 and awarded the IOD NW Chairs award for excellence in 2020.
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Simone was awarded an MBE in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to gender equality in the north of England. Discover how Simone, the founder of Northern Power Women, made a significant impact on gender quality. Learn how to break down stereotypes and amplify diverse voices to create positive change for women in business.
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From joining the Royal Navy at 18, to holding corporate roles, to becoming an entrepreneur, Simone has had a variety of different roles and responsibilities throughout her career. Simone takes you on her career journey to show how recognising your strengths and applying them to what you’re passionate about means you can tackle any role you set your mind to.
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Simone champions women and business owners and believes in the power of connections. In this talk, Simone shares why she created a Power Platform and the impact it’s had. You will feel inspired to act with passion and purpose, create meaningful connections, and pay it forward to make a difference.
Simone can also speak about NETWORKING, MENTORING, COLLABORATION, POWER, ROLE MODELS, GENDER EQUALITY, and SOCIAL MOBILITY.
“Simone is one of those people who go above and beyond. From our initial discovery call about what she was going to talk about as the guest expert speaker at the launch of the Leeds Female Advisory Board, she made it clear she wanted to help me create an amazing event. We had many conversations in the build up to the launch and I was so impressed with Simone’s gracious giving of her time and expert advice. By the time we met in person, the day before the event, I felt the event was going to be impressive and impressive is what is really was. Simone and I did a combination of Q&A style speaking which actively engaged the audience and it felt like they were all invested in the morning. It takes a special kind of person to build Europe’s largest celebration of gender equality and if you get the opportunity to meet Simone, you will see exactly why she has been so incredibly success in her career to date. Generous, funny, knowledgeable and a totally REAL person – she was awesome, thanks Simone!”