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Shelley Thornton is a Chartered Public Finance Accountant, a Joint Honours Graduate in Economics and Social Policy and a Fellow of the Institute of Business Consultants.

She has over 20 years of management experience gained in the public, not-for-profit, and private sectors. She also has international experience.

Prior to setting up Heart 2 Head, she held senior positions with:

  • a large financial services company - where as Senior Partner, she set up and managed, with Jeremy Kite, a new venture to provide strategic management consultancy services

  • the Audit Commission for England and Wales – where, as Associate Director, she worked on a range of policies affecting local government and the NHS

  • the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) - where she held Assistant Director, Senior Manager and Manager posts dealing with a wide range of policy and professional issues spanning the public. not-for-profit, and private sectors

  • District Audit – the arms length auditing firm of the Audit Commission – where she held several positions from Auditor to Audit Manager providing auditing and consultancy services to the governing bodies and management teams of local government, the NHS and education institutions. 

Until recently, Shelley was an independent member of the Standards Committee of her local council. 

She was also a non executive of the charity SCOPE for nine years, one of the leading UK charities for disabled people, where she was Chairman of the Audit Committee for six years and a member of the Remuneration & Succession Committee.

Shelley has served on a variety of policy making and advisory boards – both in the UK and internationally. In addition, she has provided input to a variety of professional, and policy-making committees, and has been project manager for some initiatives.

She has spoken to a range of UK and international audiences and has written articles and books on a wide range of subjects. In particular, she is an acknowledged authority on corporate governance, strategic risk management and audit.  

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