As a mother of four, as a law student and as a business woman specializing in the care recruitment sector, Matriarch Training & Consultancy Services director Christine Blackledge is known and admired nationally as something of a ‘mumpreneur’. Christine is also known as a ‘transformational trainer’; specializing in training people in how to set up their own nursing agencies, and thus going on to ‘transform’ their working lives. Her experience includes running several highly successful businesses in procurement, law and marketing. She also has over twenty years’ experience in the nursing-care agency market. She is also a specialist in procurement-supply contract tendering.