Lisa Newton

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 her first company Boogles [which began primarily as a bookkeeping service] with £150. Her mum put in £50, and Lisa used £100 of her overdraft.

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 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 being short listed for Best Accounting Franchisor in 2011 by the BKN awards. In 2012 Boogles won Best Accounting Franchisor award.

Lisa does talks on manifesting and runs vision boards workshops. She also runs online courses on cosmic ordering, how to write a book and on money management - various aspects such as: how to read a profit & loss account and balance sheet, how to use various accounting systems which exist out there (such as quickbooks, sage, xero, kashflow, freeagent, VT, MYOB and solibooks - to name a few).

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.

In her spare time, Lisa likes travelling, dancing salsa, meditation, writing books and learning languages.

Lisa is the host of THE AUTHORS PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...