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CPD Course Speaker

Rebecca Benneyworth Training

Rebecca Benneyworth

Rebecca is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant. She is a lecturer, writer and consultant on a variety of taxes, lecturing extensively throughout the UK, to accountants, business people and also to HMRC and the Treasury. She has her own accountancy practice based in Gloucestershire, with a variety of small business and personal tax clients.

During the last two years, this has become a 100% digital practice. She is Chair of the HMRC Digital Advisory Group, providing help and support to HMRC in understanding the challenges that Making Tax Digital presents to small businesses and their advisers.

She is also a member of the Admin Burdens Advisory Board, an independent advisory group to HMRC monitoring the burdens which the tax system imposes on businesses.

George Hay Chartered Accountants

Barry Jefferd

Barry Jefferd is the Taxation Partner at George Hay Chartered Accountants, advising on all major taxes with specialist expertise in Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, Trusts and property/land transactions. He lectures widely for professional bodies and holds qualifications as a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Tax Adviser, and STEP member.

Barry was one of the first accountants in the country to pass the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales’ probate qualification and now heads up GH Probate Ltd – the probate division of George Hay. He is also a director of GH Wills Ltd, George Hay’s division providing bespoke Will writing services.

He supports other accountancy firms with probate and specialist tax matters, and he is an expert in Share and Business Valuations having appeared in both the High and County Courts as an expert witness. He is currently Deputy President of the Association of Tax Technicians (ATT), the country’s leading professional body dealing with tax compliance.

Dolman Chartered Accountants

Phillip Dolman

Phillip runs a medium sized accountancy practice on the outskirts of Bristol, providing accounting, taxation compliance and planning services to individuals and owner managed businesses. Phillip enjoys using his wealth of technical experience to help clients with a range of taxation solutions in respect of business succession, tax mitigation, restructuring or providing capital tax planning for high-net-worth individuals. Actively running his own busy practice, he understands the practical challenges of tax legislation and focuses his courses towards those in small or medium sized practice. Phillip has extensive experience writing and presenting taxation courses for students preparing for their professional exams. In his spare time, he enjoys running, open water swimming, walking and spending time with his daughters.

ATT - Technical Officer

Helen Thornley

Helen is a technical officer with the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) where her role includes looking at the latest changes in tax policy and working with HMRC on developments and improvements to their systems and processes.

Helen’s background is in personal tax, and prior to joining the ATT she worked in the north of England advising family businesses and high net worth individuals. Helen writes for publications including Tax Adviser, AccountingWEB, Accountancy Age and Taxation magazine.

She has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Money Box Live and BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money in addition to many local radio stations and been quoted in the Financial Times, Times, Telegraph and Guardian. Helen is also a member of the CIOT, ICAEW and STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners).

VATskills Ltd

Edd Thompson

Edd is a specialist VAT trainer and VAT adviser. He is both a chartered tax adviser and chartered accountant.

Edd was previously Head of Indirect Taxes for Tolley, a leading provider of tax research in the UK. He trained in VAT with a top 10 accountancy practice and returned to the world of VAT following his time at Tolley. He has also been seconded to the in-house VAT function of a large North American head quartered bank.

Edd splits his time between his training business VATskills and advising clients as VAT Director of Cubed Tax.

Edd has taught on both ATT and CTA qualifications and has lectured for professional bodies.

He has written for many of the leading VAT and tax publications including De Voil Indirect Tax Service, Tolley’s Value Added Tax, Tax Journal, Taxation Magazine and Tax Adviser.

Lovell Consulting

John Lovell

John has over 30 years’ experience as a capital allowances specialist. John trained with the accounting firm Arthur Andersen and helped found the capital allowances team. At the time, Andersen’s were the first accounting firm to set up a capital allowances specialist team and employ chartered surveyors and train them in taxation. John later formed Lovell Consulting, which for the last 21 years specialises in capital allowances. John qualified as a chartered quantity surveyor with McBains. John qualified as a member of the Association of Tax Technicians. John was educated at Reading University where he gained a First-Class honours degree in Quantity Surveying. He gained a scholarship to Oxford University Green Templeton College and attained a Master of Philosophy degree in Management Studies. John is a Chartered Surveyor.

Calathea Solutions Ltd

Lucy Brown

After initially working in a range of bookkeeping and accounting roles, Lucy took up a role in a team administering the £17 billion pension fund of one of the Top 3 UK banks. Later moving on to a project working with an international partner to scope a new pensions administration system. This work drew on expertise in:

• Workflow Management
• Process mapping
• Systems design
• Test design and implementation
• Interpretation of scheme rules and legislation

After a career break, Lucy went into practice as a bookkeeper, growing and developing a successful bookkeeping practice that she then sold. Whilst in practice as a bookkeeper, Lucy developed and implemented policy and processes to ensure that the business was compliant with all legislative requirements, including Anti Money Laundering legislation.

Having successfully sold the business, Lucy worked for one of the supervisory bodies supporting members to meet their legislative obligations and satisfy professional standards. In this role Lucy provided training, worked to raise awareness, and provided advice to a wide variety of members – alongside overseeing the mandatory penalty regime and developing an independent appeals process.

Sustainability Consultant at Acclaro

Jose Antonio Hopkins

I’m a Chartered Accountant, Sustainability Consultant, Lecturer, and Speaker with international experience helping finance and audit teams integrate sustainability and climate risk into business strategy, risk, and reporting, with a strong focus on ISSB, TNFD, UK-CFD, and CSRD readiness.

After senior roles at KPMG and MHA (Baker Tilly UK), I now work independently, supporting businesses to turn sustainability frameworks into practical, credible tools for audit readiness, risk assessments, and long-term value creation. I’ve presented at venues including ExCeL London and the House of Lords, sharing practical insights on climate risk, strategy, and reporting.

Alongside my technical work, I also advocate for wellbeing and high performance in the profession, sharing my own journey of rebuilding energy and resilience through mindset, weightlifting, and cellular health.

Company Law Solicitor

David Impey

David Impey is a company law solicitor, professional services marketer, writer, and lecturer. His specialities include company law, professional services marketing, strategic planning and implementation, and interactive e-marketing.

As well as specialising in company law, David also works with law firms and other law businesses, helping them with strategy, and marketing, and majoring particularly on overcoming barriers to implementation of strategic and marketing plans and tactics

From 2008 to 2014, he led and worked on a major project for the UK Intellectual Property Office, through Atom Content Marketing (formerly BHP), building and developing an online IP HealthCheck resource that helps small and medium-sized businesses to identify, protect and commercially exploit their intellectual property.

He also worked in-house for 14 fun and profitable years for leading services provider Jordans, becoming Marketing Director responsible for developing, managing and marketing its service and product range. Particularly, he led significant projects to commoditise UK and overseas ‘factory’ professional services and promote them into the UK and other legal markets.

David lectures in the UK and overseas on both UK company law and professional services firm strategy and marketing.

OmniPro Strategic Solutions

Lindsay Webber

As a head of Strategic Solutions at OmniPro, Lindsay’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, providing in-house training and technical assistance in audit and financial reporting.

Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.

Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University, an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting from Chartered Accountants Ireland.

BAA Group

Ben Brophy

Ben Brophy is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant, Industrial Fellow, and founder of Brophy Accountancy & Advisory Limited (BAA Group); an innovative firm blending finance and technology to support small businesses and individuals. With over a decade of experience in practice accounting, Ben brings expertise and outlook, to both the professional and academic arenas. He is an award-winning champion of entrepreneurship, a regular speaker at one of the UK's leading startup hubs, and an Industrial Fellow supporting a highly-ranked UK business school. Ben also serves as Co-Chair of BBHSCA’s Digital Accountants Group and is part of its management team as Duty and then Vice President. Ben’s passion for AI and emerging technology has led to exciting developments in both academia and practice, where he explores real-world use cases of AI in the fast-evolving accountancy landscape

Technical Executive

Lungi Sepotokele

Lungi trained with PwC in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of mining companies. She completed part of her training as an academic at Wits University where she completed her Master of Commerce degree. Lungi has worked in external audit in Canada as an audit senior and Ireland as an audit manager.

Outside of her accounting qualifications Lungi is a hobby baker who volunteers by baking for the homeless in Dublin City

striveX

Rachel Harris

Rachel Harris is disrupting what it means to be an accountant, a business owner and an employer in 2024. She is a TEDx speaker, Forbes contributor, content creator, author, business owner and most importantly... an accountant! As the official accounting personality of the year 2023 & breakout star of the year 2023, Rachel adds value to her audience of 90,000 by creating completely free long and short form content delivering financial education! She is passionate about free financial education for everyone, she is the founder of @accountant_she, her £1m firm striveX accountants, striveX audit, striveX consulting and striveX mortgages.

Superstar Communicator

Susan Heaton-Wright

As a Leading Thought Leader in Presentation Skills, Presence, Charisma, leadership communication and Credibility, Susan has supported talented individuals, teams and organisations to communicate with impact to influence others. Using her expert knowledge in communication and performance, as well as her experience as a leader and board member, Susan shares entertaining, engaging keynotes, masterclasses and workshops for organisations. She is a multi-award-winning businesswoman; International Keynote Speaker, former Prize-Winning Opera singer, author, podcaster and the founder of SuperStar Communicator empowering leaders and future leaders to communicate with impact, confidence, clarity and credibility in all professional conversations and to be noticed for career success. These include delivering speeches, presenting ideas and opinions, public speaking, having difficult conversations and being effective in meetings. She is passionate about everyone presenting the best version of themselves; being authentic and being able to speak and communicate with their personality. Her company works with multi-national companies: pharmaceutical, financial services, International Professional Associations, Professional Services and multi-national companies. She has worked with attendees from more than 140 countries worldwide. Susan has delivered Keynote Speeches and breakout workshops throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland; in Italy, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Eire, UAE and Lithuania as well as virtual and hybrid delivery. In 2020 she was named as a top 100 Influential Female Entrepreneurs in UK. In 2024 Susan contributed two chapters to “Business Development for female lawyers”. Susan visits Athens annually to lead The Love Without Borders Charity Music programme, which supports refugees. She also fundraises for the Alzheimer's Society and The Isabel Hospice in Hertfordshire. She lives in Hertfordshire where she enjoys swimming, performing in an Improv Troupe, playing viola in an orchestra and designing and sewing her handmade wardrobe.

Kate Shepherd Associates

Kate Shepherd

Kate Shepherd is a charismatic employment lawyer who specialises in online employment law training and HR consultancy. She trains and advises a diverse set of employers from small and medium sized enterprises to charities, public sector organisations and international companies, as well as taking board level director roles for clients. Prior to establishing her consultancy, Kate Shepherd Associates in 2005, Kate qualified as a solicitor, and practised employment law at a senior level with a leading firm in the Midlands.

Kate is an associate for leading organisations involved in learning and development including the CIPD, Pearson Business School and MBL Seminars and is a published author.

Forging People Ltd

Nick Elston

Nick Elston is one of the highest-profile and leading Inspirational Speakers on the Lived Experience of Mental Health.

In life, we can either let our adversities, our challenges, define us negatively for the rest of our lives…or…we can choose for it to forge something beautiful, something powerful – something that never would have existed without you going through your ‘stuff’ in the first place.

Described as a ‘BIG man, BIG heart, BIG story & BRUTAL honesty!’, ‘Utterly inspirational, absolutely engaging!’ and ’10/10 – a Speaking Masterclass!’ – Nick shares his experiences of Mental Illness, Mental Ill-Health & Breakdown worldwide – through his powerful, inspiring, engaging & emotional talks.

Most importantly, Nick shares his ‘Lived Experience’ through insights, tools, tips and techniques on how to manage Anxiety in Life, in Business – to implement immediately.

Full Cup Coaching

Ashley Leeds

Did you know that 1.2 Billion people use LinkedIn, but less than 5% actually create any content? Ashley Leads has been training people on LinkedIn since 2018, and he's helping them to get business from LinkedIn with his 30 years of sales experience.

Ashley is also able to simplify the complexities of social media to help people do more than just have a pretty profile.

With his motivational energy, you cannot help to be inspired and start loving LinkedIn.

He has also written his first book, 101 Ideas for LinkedIn - Content Made Easy, to help people do more on this incredible platform.

He’ll be talking at our next event about the real value of LinkedIn and why we need to have a profile and more importantly what we need to do. He’ll share some top tips so if you are a user of LinkedIn make sure that you have it on your phone because he has some great networking tricks to show you.

Pecunia

Kevin Artlett

Kevin Artlett is a highly experienced Credit and Insurance professional, having worked in the industry for over 35 Years.

Working and managing large collection teams, and continually delivered against targets whist implementation successful policies and procedures to facilitate this.

In the last 20 years he has been focused on providing services to large organisations and SMEs as an interim credit manager, consultant in change management and legacy debt, and delivery bespoke training courses and programmes for credit/collections personnel.

Kevin believes in proactive credit management with an emphasis on developing the skills of credit controllers, and implementation of robust credit policies.

In addition, he is a leading tutor for the Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM) and adjudicator for the prestigious CICM Q programme. Active committee member of CICM Kent branch, awarded the Meritorious award in 2013 and winner of mentor of the year in credit strategy awards.