Women Insolvency Practitioner leads the way

(MoneyNewsWire.Net, March 06, 2015 ) London, UK -- There’s a strong female influence at insolvency practitioners Wilson Field, a Sheffield success story which has grown from a handful of people 15 years ago to over 90 specialist staff.

The firm helps businesses and individuals facing financial difficulties across the country - and by coincidence rather than planning, of the nine insolvency practitioners working at Wilson Field, seven are female – unusual in what historically had been a male-dominated profession.

Licensed insolvency practitioner Gemma Roberts is the manager of the busy corporate department. She joined Wilson Field as a 16-year-old school-leaver and became one of the youngest insolvency practitioners in the country when she qualified at age 23.

She commented, “People tend to associate insolvency with doom and gloom and failure but there can be a really positive side to it. If we are involved at an early stage, it is often possible to save businesses and on the back of that, preserve jobs, which can be very rewarding.”

“Gender is not a particularly big issue to me as our clients are varied and although men still dominate in the world of self-employment, many of our clients are women. “The companies we deal with range from very small family businesses to large SMEs in all business sectors.

“We work well as a team – the men have valued qualities, but I do feel women bring something different to the party. For example we can often defuse tense situations in what would otherwise be an all-male environment”.

Gemma added: “Business owners in financial difficulty invariably find it a very stressful experience and some businesswomen find it easier to talk woman-to-woman. But when the chips are down it’s all down to being professional, constructive and finding creative ways to solve our clients’ problems.”

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