Helen Roberts
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Helen Roberts, our Ambassador for Wales
I have worked in the property industry for nearly 25 years starting my career in student accommodation and then spending the last 15 years growing with Fexco and rising through the ranks. As Director of Client Services for Fexco Property Management, I am responsible for business development across the varying group brands. As a mum to a little one with a board-level position for a national group, I am a huge advocate for women ​in the workplace. If I can help one female navigate the twists and turns of work/home life balance I will have achieved.
My most vivid memory of high school is being made to stand up in front of the class and being told there were three types of people in the world – spitters, swearers and smokers. I apparently was all 3. After leaving school without completion of my exams and floating from dead-end job to dead-end job I realised my future was in my hands and not determined by other people's opinions. I attended university as a mature student and worked full-time while gaining my degree. My career started in hospitality and grew from there.
​I have always been ambitious and my career is incredibly important. When I had my baby. As my maternity was ending I feared I had lost my edge, did I want this anymore? Would I still have the same passion that you need to get by in our industry? I am forever thankful that I work for a fantastic company that supported me as a person and discussed what would work for me upon my return. After many nights of lost sleep and working mum guilt about not being with my daughter I realised that I wanted to show her that you can have it all. Even if you are a spitter, swearer or smoker.
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Why is Doyenne important to me? It shows that it's all worthwhile, and that what I am working towards is important. I am important. I am leading the way for working mums, school dropouts and people who haven’t had an easy path. I am a leader in my field and an inspiration to my daughter.
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To lead the way to my internal team and the wider industry is of incredible importance. To show others that women can hold their own in a predominantly male environment gives me satisfaction. For other females to hopefully look at me and know they can do the same makes me smile.”