Evolve MentorAmanda Dickens

Amanda Dickens is an experienced business mentor, qualified executive coach, and former CEO with over 30 years of leadership across innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship. She has supported hundreds of start-ups to validate and commercialise ideas, secure early traction, and develop scalable business models. Amanda led a disruptive innovation practice at PwC and co-founded a healthtech venture using virtual reality before setting up an inclusive social enterprise edtech that helped founders to learn how to start businesses.  Amanda’s mentoring focuses on translating complex ideas into compelling value propositions, validating product market fit, go-to-market strategy and building founder confidence and resilience.  She has also built a network across many sectors and uses this to help her mentees whenever possible.  She is passionate about unlocking innovation from every corner of society and is excited to support CoSTAR’s mission of helping founders move from idea to impact through purposeful, inclusive enterprise development.