A Founder’s Story

With a career and expertise built over the last 30 years in business strategy and leadership development, Cheryl found herself using the very same mindset skills that she had afforded professionally to others, in her own personal life, after receiving a Breast Cancer diagnosis during Covid-19 in 2021.

A natural inquisitiveness, combined with wanting to find solutions and ‘fix the small things’ that matter the most so that others may benefit from a positive patient experience during their treatment plan and beyond, has become an important part of her day-to-day working life.   

Today, 4 years after her initial diagnosis, the Chapter 50 Lived Experience Consultancy has been incorporated alongside its sister platform, Behind Closed Doors, which has been created to provide a luxe holistic wellness and lifestyle experience, for women who are going through, or have been through, a cancer diagnosis. 

Founded in Ghana, the ChaptHer 50 Foundation, is the charitable arm of the Consultancy that provides philanthropic support for the children of women who have been affected by Breast Cancer through solution based initiatives that specifically tackle social and economic hardship.

Having been appointed as a Member of the National Cancer Board; Chair of the Patient Partner Voice Forum, NHS England National Cancer Programme; Lived Experience Patient Partner, South East London Cancer Alliance (SELCA); Member of the Breast Cancer Now Strategy Steering Group & EDI Patient Advocate and honoured to be announced as winner of the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Patient National Network Awards, October 2024.

Cheryl’s experience has since provided the platform and opportunity to consult with various other UK cancer related organisations and speak internationally about lived experience at charity, corporate and private events.