#9 - Susan Ayton and Carys Smith - Founder, MD and colleague at Ayton Global Research Ltd - A fascinating journey from Prison to Consumer Studies.

Pocket Mentors Podcast

Since we recorded this episode, Susan is now a member of the council for the Society of Cosmetic Sciences (SCS) and joins me on this weeks episode together with her colleague Carys Smith. Congratulations, Susan.

Susan studied beauty therapy and when graduated started her interesting career as a teacher/lecturer at several colleges before moving into the world of audits and bureaucracy. Susan then went on to work within a prison where the audit strengths and skills really paid off. In this environment, Susan developed more and more skills and has used them throughout her career to date; these skills include, resilience and humour and how watching episodes of 'Porridge' helped in this all male environment.

Susan then went on to create an incredible and leading Consumer Study business in Ayton Global Research.

Susan is joined by Carys Smith; Carys studied performing arts and dance and talks about how her passion for studies, research and investigations have complemented Ayton Research. Carys finds her role to be creative and talks her about her love for defining the research and the methodology and how this passion really drives her. We also discuss Carys' background in performing and how this provided a great foundation and platform to meet and speak with some big, big names from an early age.

This tag team talk was really enjoyable and I am sure you will find this enjoyable too.