Social Enterprising
Liz Cross is an active entrepreneur working in and leading social businesses, governing charities and social enterprises and consulting with all sectors to help commercial companies have social impact and social businesses become more commercial. A founding Partner in The Connectives and lead Consultant, Liz’s activities have taken her to the India, Africa, Israel, Mainland Europe, USA, Canada, and the UK. The Connectives are social entrepreneurs – investing time, money and intellectual capital to develop partnerships and projects which deliver break through sustainable solutions with social, commercial and environmental impact.

She is
• Deputy Chair of the Blackburne House Group
• Non Executive Director of the Liverpool Women’s Hospital Board
• A regional board member of the Common Purpose Advisory Board
• School Governor in Moss Side Primary School, Manchester since 1988 She has served as
• Chair of a national youth charity – the Young Adults Trust
• A board member on the Single Purpose Committee of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which was tasked with generating research and advice on the future of Public Services and Governance in the UK (3 year appointment ended March 2007)
• A national board member of the Investors in Community Standards
• A member of the international advisory committee on standards in person-directed long term care environments – Washington DC
• Deputy chief executive to a large Housing Group in the UK

She has worked nationally and internationally
• World Entrepreneur Summit 08
 – Giving evidence to the Social Enterprise Commission
• Judging /Hosting award ceremonies and dinners on
 – Entrepreneurship
 – Housing
 – Women In Construction
• International Speaking
 – Entrepreneurship
 – Group Structures
 – Young people
 – Older people services
 – Governance
• International Standards Development
 – with CARF on creating standards around person led long term care services

Currently Liz, working with other Directors in the Connectives, is developing
• The Connectives Social Accounts – showing the impact of our pro bono work and the social impact of our work with for profit businesses
• Social share incentive programmes – rewarding those who contribute positively to the commercial success of the Connectives at the same time to making an auditable social impact which delivers against our mission
• Client/resident/user/employee share programmes and innovations in social accounting
  o Creating new models of governance, leadership and user directed service development and delivery
  o Strengthening the interdependency and partnership between workers in relevant industries and the ‘moral owners’ – the persons served
  o Rewarding independence, interdependence and abundance mentality – so that people do well by doing good – whether they are employees or service users

Liz Cross	Liz Brooks- Allen	Maggie Riley	Mags Porter	Lynn Harrop	Karen Flear	Catherine Thomson	Carol Pickering	Fliss Bridgewater	Leoni Antoniazzi	Dick Bunning	Kirsty Holt