Aged 24, Sherena is a friendly character, hard-working and truly strives to go above and beyond for colleagues and customers.

Whilst achieving a 1st Class Law with Business Degree at the University of Plymouth, Sherena’s passion for supporting others began during her work with Enactus Plymouth. Enactus is a student-run social enterprise society that uses entrepreneurial action to tackle global issues. During her leadership, she grew a team from 9 members to 80 members, across 8 new social enterprises in 3 continents. Through her efforts, the projects have transformed the lives of over 500 people, including providing lifelong access to clean drinking water to villages in Egypt. The social enterprises have received both national and international attention and awards.

Similarly, whilst a student, Sherena also spent time in Vietnam working with the Centre of Sustainable Development Studies, paying it forward by supporting establish a gender-equality programme across the Association of South East Asian Nations (2018). This project empowered 30 university students to each establish their own gender-equality projects within their local community in their respective countries.

Following Graduation, in 2019 Sherena joined Centrica’s Business Leadership Graduate Programme where she has provided customer-centricity and fresh engagement to the organisation through a focus on innovation. Her placements have included Team-Leadership in the contact centers, helping vulnerable customers and project management. Sherena was also selected to participate in the first ever CEO Challenge within the company. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and Senior Leadership Team, she was tasked analyse, ideate, and produce recommendations for implementation for a retention strategy targeting tariff roll off customers. As a result of her performance, in 2020 Sherena was listed in Centrica’s Hall of Fame.

Sherena is an aspiring Lawyer and Business leader with goals including qualifying as a Solicitor and the continuation on leading substantial cultural change across multiple organisations and their wider industries. Currently, she is undertaking the Solicitors Qualifying Exam as the first Solicitor Apprentice within the organisation. She is also leading the conversations for Diversity and Inclusion within Centrica as Head of Communications and Engagement for the VOICE (ethnicity) Employee Network. The impact of her quest for inclusivity has extended to the wider energy industry and within the Legal Profession.

In recognition, Sherena has been listed within the ‘HERoes 100 Women Future Leaders List’ as supported by Yahoo Finance (2021) and featured as best practice both internally and externally for her work advocating wellbeing and empowering accessibility to the energy industry, including as a finalist in two categories at the Young Energy Professional Awards for ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ and listed as a ‘Rising Star’.