Colin Crooks MBE, is an experienced business mentor and adviser. He currently mentors' a wide spectrum of small business owners and delivers the UK governments Help to Grow programme. Drawing on his experience of creating successful businesses employing people from the toughest of backgrounds he challenges and guides his clients in equal measure on their strategy, leadership and business management. His latest book Prosper with Purpose advises business owners on how to grow their business and at the same time enjoy life. His passionate but pragmatic approach has helped him set up 5 award winning social enterprises employing more than 1,000 long-term unemployed people. One of these, Green-Works, gained the Queens Award for Enterprise; Sustainable Development. In 2012 he wrote ‘How to Make a Million Jobs, a charter for social enterprise’. From that he founded Tree Shepherd, which trained & supported hundreds of disadvantaged people to start their own business. In 2019 Colin was awarded an MBE for “services to disadvantaged people and the environment.”