Food & Drink

Lisa Shepherd & Saskia Roskam

Co-founders of The Biskery - UK based

Hand-made biscuits baked with kindness, craft and a family-first business model.

Lisa Shepherd & Saskia Roskam, co-founders of The Biskery

What The Biskery does

Lisa and Saskia built The Biskery from a kitchen table, creating a wide range of hand-made biscuits, from intricately iced designs to fondant and jam-filled varieties, for clients including Meta, BBC and Fendi. What sets them apart is their flexible, school-hours-friendly approach to work, which naturally attracts mothers looking to balance career and family life, showing that a family-first business model can truly scale. Their biscuits are enjoyed across the UK, and the brand has grown into a six-figure business built on kindness, craft and flexibility.

Visit The Biskery

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Superpower: Empathetic Leadership

"Lisa and Saskia prove you can build a powerhouse brand while putting family first."

What a young person can learn from this

A real business in food & drink started with a specific problem, not a perfect plan.
Empathetic Leadership is a skill you can practise, not something you are born with.
How financial literacy shows up in a real business.
How branding & marketing shows up in a real business.
How social enterprise shows up in a real business.