Rosie Sweetman (she/her)

Rosie is Director of award winning B Corporation Sweetmans and Partners which she co-founded with her husband in 2016.

She works with purpose-led leaders, teams and organisations as coach, and facilitator, connecting ‘how they work’ with ‘what they want to achieve’. She is qualified in Executive Coaching and Mentoring at postgraduate level and accredited as a Professional Executive Coach by Association for Coaching.

Her coaching approach is thoughtful, pragmatic and solutions-focussed and she works across a broad range of sectors including financial services, energy, manufacturing, third and the arts.

Before co-founding Sweetmans and Partners, Rosie was Director of Business in the Community Cymru, working with hundreds of businesses to embed purpose and values into operations and wider business strategy.  She successfully repositioned the organisation as a business-led charity and led its appointment by Barclays as a partner to its Lifeskills programme, and by Welsh Government to roll out its ‘Business Class’ programme across Wales through a unique licence model. In recognition of her successes, she was awarded the highest accolade for leadership in The Times Top 100 charities to work for over two consecutive years and won the IOD Wales Award for Director of Leadership in Corporate Responsibility.

Previously, she headed up Grant Thornton’s Business Development function for Wales & South West of England, where she was responsible for Marketing and CSR, as well as sales coaching for all partners in the region. She started her career in the arts where she ran the Professional Development programmes at Arts & Business, partnering senior business and arts professionals for mutual benefit through board placements, skills exchange projects and mentoring.