Beckie Taylor, Campaigning CEO

Beckie Taylor breaks the ‘rules’ of business. And in doing so, she proves how wrong they are. Success doesn’t need to come from aggressive practices and punishing schedules, at the expense of everyone and everything else in your life. As a successful CEO, Beckie is the role model for a more progressive approach to work, one that she is helping many other people, and companies to adopt.

Beckie co-founder and CEO of Tech Returners, bringing experienced tech professionals back to the workforce. She has grown the business to the point where it has been acquired by listed Northcoders, one of the UK’s largest providers of software training.

Beckie leads the Confidence Community – a programme focused on empowering individuals to transform their confidence and careers as well as 'Reframe: Women in Tech', the largest conference of its kind in the North West and due to scale across the UK and beyond), and she is co-founder of Women In Tech North. She has won countless awards for her efforts to create accessible opportunities into tech, including the Women in Software #WIS Changemakers award in 2022 and the Talk Talk Women in Tech 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award.