Cynthia Stroud MBE

Cynthia is a self taught baker who set up a business making cakes from home using a £5 handheld mixer, a plastic bowl and baking in a rented house using a temperamental oven. She grew this into an internationally renowned business that

 

- won Entrepreneur of the year 2014 & 2015

- turned over £250,000+ a year

- winner Lloyds Bank National Business awards Pivot for purpose 2020

- official cake supplier to BRIT awards 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023

- Official cake maker to Queen Charlotte Ball 2016, 2017, 2018

- official supplier to London Clothes Show

- Brides magazine- top 10 cake designers in UK

- Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

- Cynthia is a food judge on TV shows in UK, USA, Canada and beyond. She also is a motivational speaker and since 2015 has been volunteering in secondary schools in UK mentoring students in year 11 facing challenges  to aim higher. She is also an entrepreneur course workshop host in University of Hertfordshire, has been a mentor in Oxford Brookes and a speaker at University of Buckingham.

Her business success was no fluke or one-off, she applied the same methods to teach her apprentices, none of who had been trained in cake making..

Her apprentices (who she taught baking from scratch) now all run successful baking businesses in their own right.

Cynthia coaches creative hobbyists & business owners across UK, Canada, India and USA to take their business to new levels

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However, charity, as they say, begins at home. Merging Cynthia's triple passion* for baking + business + transformation, this business bootcamp is a practical way to change someone's future.

*Cynthia's MBE was awarded for Business, Mentoring & Charity.