About Us Advisers & Mentors Jacqueline Jackson

Jacqueline Jackson

“You don’t need another consultant. You need someone who gets what it feels like to lead a business with all its complexity, ambiguity and emotional weight.”

Jacqueline Jackson

About Jacqueline Jackson

A Mentor Who Sees the Whole Picture

What sets Jacqui apart is her ability to balance:

Strategic Depth

She draws on evidence-based approaches to help you think beyond your immediate pressures and design better futures.

Human Insight

Leadership is as much about how you show up as what you do. Jacqui brings emotional intelligence and relational acuity into every mentoring conversation.

Actionable Outcomes

Strategy without action is noise. Jacqui helps you turn thinking into decisions, decisions into progress, and progress into real business results.

Her career spans:

  • Leading and shaping 5th generation family business strategy and growth

  • Executive roles in major organisations, including Vice Chair at SPAR (UK) Ltd, one of the nation’s largest retail and wholesale groups
  • Director of SME Programmes at Lancaster University, where she supported founders and family firms to grow through evidence-based leadership development
  • Ambassador and facilitator of national productivity and leadership initiatives, peer groups and action learning.

This rare blend of practical commercial wisdom, academic insight, and facilitation mastery means your mentoring experience is rooted in what actually works, not generic frameworks.

Currently working on:

  • ON IT: Strategic Sprint programme for independent businesses and organisations.
  • BALANCE iTⓇ: Leadership Fitness Programme
  • LEADER Club: Confidential peer group for leaders of independent businesses
  • Non-executive for family and founder led businesses
  • Various private mentees
  • National Productivity Programme, linking corporate leaders to SME growth and improved productivity.

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