Harriet Kelsall is one of the most respected bespoke designers and business trailblazers working in the UK jewellery industry today. She founded her multi-award-winning business from her kitchen table in 1998, with the ambition to inspire and celebrate individuality through creativity. It is with these aspirations she started a wave to bring reachable bespoke jewellery design to the high street for the first time, whilst also pioneering ethics and sustainability within the industry too.

Since then, the business has become the UK’s leading bespoke jewellers, with a team of over 40 across four studios. Harriet has been the HSBC Forward Ladies “Retail Businesswoman of the year”, Everywoman’s “Retail Woman of the Year”, and one of The Institute of Directors magazine’s six “women who have most changed the business world”.

She is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and of the City of London. She has sat on numerous boards as a non-executive director including the Responsible Jewellery Council, the British Hallmarking Council and she has been the chair of the National Association of Jewellers. She currently sits on the Board for both the Intellectual Property Office and the British Allied Trades Federation.

Harriet is passionate about helping creative businesses and individuals flourish, which motivated her to write her book “The Creative’s Guide to Starting a Business” which won an award at the2019 Business Book of the Year Awards. She is a regular keynote speaker on starting and growing creative businesses and the benefits of dyslexia and she speaks nationally and internationally about responsible business.