Full name: Jo Henney
Company: Nugent
Job Title: Chief Executive Officer
What does your business do: Nugent offer a diverse range of support to adults and children in Merseyside through our school, care homes, community and social work services. We work at the heart of some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. We strive also to generate interest, awareness, and an understanding of the issues they face and the impact of this on our wider communities.
Where can we find you: Edge Lane, Liverpool and around the Merseyside area
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joanne-henney-25179834
Company website: www.wearenugent.org
Favourite sports team: Manchester United
Favourite Book: Good to Great by Jim Collins
Favourite Band/Artist/Song: Ooooh so many. Probably Coldplay with Green Eyes or Fix you
Favourite Restaurant / eat-out: Hawksmoor Seven Dials, Langley Street, London
Favourite Holiday Destination: Absolutely the Florida Keys – there is something for everyone at anytime of day or night!!
Top 5 people dinner party guests, dead or alive:
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Sir Alex Ferguson
- Declan Donnelly (he’s not allowed to bring Ant!!)
- Princess Margaret
- Simon Cowell
Celebrity crush: Danny Dyer
My proudest / best business moment is/was…: becoming Governor in my first secure setting – a predominantly male dominated industry
My advice for 18-year-old me would be…: believe it and it will happen
My personal business hero(es) is/are…: Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Alan Sugar
