For the last twenty five years the businesses I've co-founded and co-owned have been involved in finding out what works in practice and then giving everyone who wants to start their own enterprise the very best chance of surviving and thriving.

I'll be championing enterprise and improving enterprise support until the day I die. On my specialist subject - how to help everyone to start and run their own business - I'm an author, speaker, facilitator, coach and mentor.

TR is far left - the oldest rocker in town!

Some of what I've written, with my business partner Clare Francis, to help prospective enterprise owners has been lucky enough to win awards. I've been even more fortunate to receive the OBE in 2001 for services to small firms and training and, in 2007, a special award from the IAB for championing enterprise and entrepreneurship in the UK.

Clare, Nigel and I are Directors of BAB, The Business Advisory Bureau Limited which Clare and I founded in 1986. BAB specialises in providing publications, outplacement services and workshops for executives and professionals looking to change their career from an employed position to going it alone in their own business.

Most of my time and money is now going into building a global movement, which I co-founded, called the Enterprise Rockers. The Enterprise Rockers will be the biggest self help community of micro enterprise owners in the world. We aim to harness what we call the Power of Plenty. It means lots and lots of us supporting each other, trading with each other and campaigning together to make life better and fairer for micro enterprise owners everywhere.

I write on Enterprise for the No 1 Google ranked 'The Small Business Blog' and on Enterprise Support Policy and Practice at Business Zone and my current best selling book, second edition, is 'Stripping for Freedom' by the fictional Leonora Soculitherz (So-cool-it-hurts - geddit?) which prepares executives for the realities of going it alone.

It has been described as the 'funniest' book on enterprise with the most 'hard hitting business truths'.

You can find more about this book and e-book, read reviews and sample extracts on Amazon.

There are spoof blogs by Leonora Soculitherz on The Small Business Blog, Fashion Faux Pas on Pinterest and humorous videos on YouTube.