Who We Are

Julie Lawn
Director and Training Manager

A lifelong networker, with a background in marketing and vocational training for disadvantaged people, Julie's wide experience is proving invaluable for Cute Dog’s client base. Her aim is to bring added value to business and training advice and to ensure that clients access government programmes to help them pay as little as possible for Cute Dog’s services.

Julie also has a keen interest in Customer Service, Project Management, Management Training and Social Enterprises as well as vocational accreditation and has devised and delivered diverse training solutions.

She was the top delivery agent for Leadership and Management for Business Link London under the recent ‘Addmore’ contract, recruiting and signing up over 120 businesses and helping to bring £120,000 in refunded training costs back to her clients.

"Its all about finding ways to give clients what they want at the very lowest possible cost!" she says….

Stephen Kain
Funding and Business Planning Expert

FCA and SFEDI qualified, Stephen’s expertise is in helping clients shape their business and devise ingenious funding solutions.

A highly experienced Business Adviser to small businesses and Community Organisations, he has over the past 10 years worked for diverse business and enterprise support agencies. He has been actively involved in the management of these support agencies and was Deputy CEO of an award-winning Business Link in London.

His special interest is in organisational restructuring, business planning and fundraising.  Before he joined the Cute Dog team he owned and ran a number of SMEs within different sectors. (My successes and failures were key learning points, he says)

Stephen’s clients appreciate him because of his empathy for their business and his ability to rapidly grasp the context of a person’s aspirations, or indeed the scope and practicality of an organisation’s issues.  “One person’s problem is an exciting opportunity for me” is his mantra.