About Sue Grogan

I’m Sue and here’s my journey – starting with WHY. The reason I do what I do is because I want to help people.

I trained a long time ago as a speech and language therapist, worked in the NHS with children and families and moved on to be a manager and a strategic planner. I’ve gathered skills in counselling, planning, training and being an impartial facilitator.

I got married, was very happy for a long time and had two lovely children – who are now grown up and happily married themselves.

Being disillusioned with the NHS for all the reasons that hit the headlines around resources I left and took up Project Managers roles in Brain Injury, Children’s Services and moved onto Adult Lifelong Learning, setting up a programme getting people who’d had a poor educational experience into learning, training and jobs. It was all going well until the then government axed the funding… 

Along the way I realised my marriage wasn’t working any more. What brought us together just wasn’t keeping us together and we divorced.

I’m now a business owner and still want to help people, so I support businesses with management training, raising awareness of the impact of divorce on people, the support and referral they may need and what it can cost a business in sick leave, and resignation. It can be a very difficult time as people get through it, move on from it and build their future life, whatever that looks like for them. Keeping their productivity at work can be difficult though.

Giving 121 support to individuals is what I love the most – making the use of all the skills I’ve learned over the years. I love it, keeping my values of equity, compassion and kindness as the foundations of what I do.

“Silver Splitters” is the service name – my hair has changed and nowadays is that colour(!) I haven’t changed though and I still love being able to help people.

I’m based in Leicestershire.