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After an undistinguished career at school, spent playing the cello and double bass in as many ensembles as possible and singing the rest of the time, Elizabeth read music at Southampton University. In common with many musicians, she also enjoyed playing with numbers and analysing things and so a career as an auditor was a natural progression. She trained with District Audit in Chelmsford and Gloucester before moving to work for the Audit Commission at Vincent Square. There she was part of the first joint research team with the National Audit Office, looking at housing benefit fraud. As part of this role, Elizabeth trained over 150 auditors on the study methodology and discovered an unexpected skill and delight in providing training. When her secondment to the Audit Commission ended, Elizabeth went to work at the London Borough of Ealing as an audit manager where she had her first exposure to corporate governance and formal risk management. As a result of a best value review, the internal audit service was part externalised and Elizabeth became head of audit and client manager until she was head-hunted to be finance portfolio manager at Breckland Council. There, amoung many other things, she set up a risk management framework, a challenge that she repeated as Director of Corporate Resources at West Dorset District Council.
When Elizabeth realised that a career as a local government chief executive was not appealing, she seized the opportunity to return to the training and consultancy role that she had enjoyed at the Audit Commission and so Tilia Solutions was born. Over time, the work that Elizabeth has carried out through Tilia has expanded as the client base expanded and Elizabeth has worked with CIPFA, RSM, Moore Stephens (now BDO) and The Institute of Risk Management, for whom she was one of the first accredited trainers, as well as carrying out work independently. Elizabeth's core business continues to be providing training and consultancy in governance, risk, audit and associated areas, specilising in working with audit committees. However, she has also ghost written articles, edited documents, reviewed working papers, trained in software, written a course for the Kosovan government and the risk methodology for the Jamaican government and spoken at conferences. And, until February 2012, she was the first and only internal auditor at the English Rugby Football Union thus practicising what she preached (up to a point).
Elizabeth has almost as many initials after her name as she has in her name, having added the CIRM (Certificate of International Risk Management) qualification to her MBA, CPFA and BA.
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