Nikki Flanders, Managing Director of Customer Solutions, SSE Energy was the guest speaker at our recent Women in Business networking lunch, where she gripped the audience’s attention with an account of her 25 years of experience in the retail sector “from bricks and mortar to digital businesses.”

Flanders started her career with Marks & Spencer before taking up positions with WHSmith, Centrica, Telefonica and Drax (Opus Energy). She later joined SSE in 2019 as managing director of the customer division which provides energy solutions to over 500,000 businesses across the Great Britain from SMEs to large corporates, and over 700,000 homes and businesses across the island of Ireland.

One of the many enthusiastic delegates commented: “Nikki Flanders shared with us what success looks like for her and some of the greatest challenges she had to overcome to become the influential and outstanding woman she is, a true representative of women’s empowerment and reach.

Learn more about Flanders's inspiring career journey in our latest issue of London Business Matters, p.13.