Ashanti is the Founder and CEO of Legacy Concepts. She has worked in the sports and events industry over 11 years and has successfully built and sold businesses both in the UK and Europe including being a media owner and working with many high-profile sports personalities.
She is a highly qualified and experienced in business development and sponsorship. Her core interest is in event management and strategy with extensive commercial contacts globally across sport and music and she has worked with global brands such as Barclays Bank, the SAS, various print media owners BBC and ESPN Sport.
Michael is a financial services professional with 10 years of experience working in reinsurance, banking, and audit. Michael is currently the Sustainability Lead at new start-up bank Perenna and is focused on developing new products and services which can help homeowners to decarbonise their properties. Before joining Perenna, Michael worked for Elementum in Bermuda. Elementum is an alternative investment manager specialising in collateralised natural event reinsurance investments. Prior to this he worked in audit at PwC Bermuda.
Natalie is a consultant and helps national government, infrastructure and transport agencies and private sector organisations tackle their unique and complex strategic and operational challenges. She has extensive experience across both the public and private sector and enjoys helping her clients translate ambitious strategies into action. She is passionate about using infrastructure to drive sustainable and inclusive change and working collectively to meet the UN SDGs.
Dr Marion Gluck is one of the world’s leading practitioners of bio-identical hormone therapy (BHRT), and author of the book ‘It Must Be My Hormones’, with a highly acclaimed medical career spanning more than 30 years. She has long been a champion of women’s rights and supporter of Barefoot College and now sits as a board member for the charity.
Since founding the UK’s first clinic for BHRT, The Marion Gluck Clinic, Dr Gluck has spent her professional career and much of her personal life helping to better the health of women and has received global recognition for her work.
Reproductive and hormonal health are at the centre of Marion’s work and she is therefore ideally placed to help Barefoot College achieve our many goals for women in the developing world.
Shevaun has been Director-General of the British Chamber of Commerce since April 2021. Shevaun was formerly Head of Business Engagement at Number 10 Downing Street and was at the heart of Government in the Cabinet Office as Head of the Inclusive Economy Partnership. Shevaun started her career in consultancy in London and New York. She then moved to the Walt Disney Company in strategic planning before joining Disneyland Paris, opening the second theme park. Shevaun then joined the agency world, running global accounts for Millward Brown, Mindshare and WPP. Following this, she became a partner in a start-up digital innovation agency and venture builder, Independents United, where she also became an Advisor for the Danson Foundation. Most recently, Shevaun was the New Ventures Director for Avado, building new businesses in Edtech and founding the Academy of Digital Business Leaders.
Shevaun has a passion for business as a force for good. A Trustee of Barefoot College International UK, Shevaun also sits on the Boards of BCC, the Women of the World Foundation (WoW) and the International Chambers of Commerce UK (ICC UK).
Tracey Margaret Balch, RGN RSCN, developed a global worldview and fervent support for education from an early age. Tracey volunteered at a Round Square school in India and then in the Mother House, Destitute and Dying homes and orphanages for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, during her Gap year. During her time there she spent an evening with Mother Teresa discussing various paths and opportunities offered in India. Mother Teresa encouraged Tracey to continue her education and obtain her nursing qualifications. Mother Teresa said, “This would be a skill that is beneficial and needed and if it is meant to be, life will go full cycle, and you will return. Life has a way of working out if it is meant to be,” and Tracey followed that advice.
Tracey trained at St. Thomas Hospital, became a Nightingale Nurse and then qualified in Paediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children in London with a specialisation in cardiac surgery, intensive care and heart and lung transplants. Her career path led her to posts as director for several organisations, including Cobham Hall in the UK for 10 years and as a trustee and on the Executive Board of Round Square for 13 years before joining the board of Barefoot College International UK. Tracey served on Aiglon College Parents Ambassador Council, and she is a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society and a life member of the RSA in addition to being a member of the Royal Academy. Tracey is also a Director of G J Duncanson Ltd., a farm in Kent looking to the future. Tracey works with BCI in what is perhaps a reflection of the words Mother Teresa once said to her – she has come full circle back to helping the most needful and left behind communities on earth and giving them the knowledge they need to fulfil their true human potential with dignity.