Born in Nottingham, UK, Lisa Newton moved to London to study Accounting with Marketing at Middlesex University. Graduating with a first class honours degree, she then went on to do an MSc in Investment Management at City University. In the same month of the Masters graduation ceremony at City, Lisa formed Boogles Ltd with £150. Her mum put in £50, and Lisa used £100 of her overdraft. Boogles primarily began as a bookkeeping service and has since expanded, and moved into other markets - such as bookkeeping franchise, bookkeeping training courses and products such as maths books & games for kids.A strong supporter of women in business and entrepreneurial people, Lisa is an Ambassador for Enterprising Women (the UK campaign to give women confidence and ambition to be enterprising - to have ideas and to make them happen). She is a member of the ICB & AAT.Lisa is a serial entrepreneur and holds various directorships in various industries including telecoms, software, hair & beauty as well as finance.
She has won various awards in Business including: Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2007 with Precious Online and in 2008 Enterprising Business Award and has been nominated and a finalist in numerous others including her bookkeeping business Boogles Ltd being short listed to the final 5, out of 14,500 entries for Best Bookkeeping Practice Lucas Awards in 2009 and 2011 and Boogles Ltd being short listed for Best Accounting Franchisor in 2011 by the BKN awards. In 2012 & 2013 Boogles won the BKN Best Accounting Franchisor award. Lisa runs workshops on manifesting and vision boards with business partner Marva. Information on courses and products can be found at: www.CreatingFinancialFlow.com.Lisa supports the charity The MS Society. A speaker, consultant and an avid net-worker, Lisa enjoys meeting people and working on projects with like-minded individuals.
More about the author can be found at: www.LisaNewton.co.ukEmail me: lisa@lisanewton.co.ukFollow me on twitter: @lisa_newton1Connect on FaceBook: www.facebook.com/booglesb.