Sarah Walker Smith

Shakespeare MartineauCEO

Sarah Walker-Smith is the CEO of Shakespeare Martineau. A chartered accountant, she is the first female, non-lawyer CEO in the legal top 60 and was named the UK’s most influential legal CEO on social media.

Sarah looks to challenge the norm in the legal sector and wider business world.

Sarah is a governor at Nottingham Trent University, is a member of the Society of Leadership Fellows at St George’s House and is on the board of the West Midlands CBI Council.

Launched during the pandemic, Sarah also presents a leadership vlog from her garden shed called ‘Shed Life’.

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