Clare Griffiths is an award-winning entrepreneurship educator, startup adviser, and social entrepreneur who has over 18 years of experience offering business support and advice to startups and small businesses from a range of industries in London and the South East.

She is the Founder of Thrive, a social enterprise which specialises in offering business support to female founders, social entrepreneurs and women in business.

She is also a Fellow of the International Entrepreneurship Educators Programme, and has received a national award for her work by Enterprise Educators UK. Clare has a Master's degree in Women, Gender and Development during which she studied how economic and social policy affects men and women differently in the context of international development. Clare loves to study, and also has a Master's degree in Applied Professional Research during which she researched into the innovation skills and entrepreneurial mindset needed for innovating within small and medium-sized enterprises.