School of Business
Trusha Lakhani
Trusha Lakhani is an award-winning business owner, fractional CFO, Non-Executive Director and business coach who has spent her career helping companies grow, restructure and prepare for sale.
She is the founder of Great Business Matters, a consulting and coaching practice she established after stepping down as a Finance Director to support a wider range of organisations as a fractional CFO, strengthening their finances and embedding sound governance at Board and senior-team level. She is also co-founder and CEO of The Entrepreneurs Lab, which helps individuals and businesses build entrepreneurial skills and mindset, with ethical and financial literacy running through everything it teaches.
Trusha has worked across multinationals, global charities and, above all, SMEs, consistently in fast-moving commercial environments built around growth and acquisition. As Finance Director of one organisation, she led the finance and negotiations on three major acquisitions and a joint venture that grew its market share from 18% to 62%, and went on to join its Board as a Non-Executive Director. Earlier, she steered financial transformation at heritage clothing brand Wolsey across its UK, US, Chinese, Italian and Scandinavian operations. At Hammonds, a £100 million fitted-furniture business that manufactures locally and sells across the country, she led end-to-end growth projects alongside group commercial and financial responsibility. At the British Red Cross, she brought her technology expertise to a national project team delivering an ERP digital transformation.
She is an elected member of ACCA Global Council, the governing board of one of the world’s largest professional accountancy bodies, having previously served on its International Assembly and currently sitting on its Qualifications Board during a major reform of the global qualification. Alongside her role as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Leicester School of Business, Trusha is an Ambassador for the Institute of Directors on governance and policy, a Trustee of Bamboozle Theatre, a charity for children with severe learning difficulties, and a board member of Ada Lovelace in Hinckley CIC, having helped bring a statue of Ada Lovelace to the town to inspire local interest in STEM.
A Fellow of ACCA with an MSc in Computing, a Bachelor of Commerce and a coaching qualification, Trusha draws on that mix to help students and emerging entrepreneurs turn ideas into financially sound, well-governed businesses.