Claire founded The Melting Pot – Scotland’s Centre for Social Innovation and one of the world’s’ first coworking spaces – back in 2005, by leading a grassroots group to create an innovative new type of resource base for a niche audience, and establishing it as a social enterprise.
She leads the development of this multi award-winning business, creating initiatives to stimulate and support social innovation. This includes Good Ideas, a free incubation programme which helps people turn their ideas into change; and innovative services that power-up globally the next generation of coworking businesses through the Coworking Accelerator.
She offers her expertise through individual consultancy as well as coworking resources, and tours internationally providing a range of inputs on subjects, including: collaborative coworking, leadership, development of social enterprise / innovation and incubating social change as well as personal, organisational and community development.