She is a member of the Institute of Directors, and previously was accredited as a Chartered Engineer when she was a member of the Institute of Production Engineering, the International Society for Professional Innovation Management and is coordinator of the Scottish fractal of the Society of Organisational Learning.  She is also a licensed NLP Practitioner, and is accredited to carry out Insights Discovery and Belbin Team Roles psychometric profiling.

Sheila has worked in the UK, Europe and the USA since 1988 with multinationals, SMEs and professional partnerships helping them to develop their strategies for reorganisation and change management to increase their competitive advantage.  Through executive coaching of the senior management team, she has helped them to increase top team synergy and has also assisted them to deploy and implement their strategies, enabling the organisation to improve performance and sustain growth.

15 years of experience in manufacturing (engineering and quality) and sales and marketing (including 8 years with Hewlett Packard) enable Sheila to effectively support SME start ups and new technology ventures.  In the early stages of development, the attention of the team is often primarily focused on the development of the product or service.  They may have little expertise in selling and marketing themselves as individuals (or the company and its products) to venture capitalists, and if it is a young team, little experience of the business world.