Zenna Atkins

Zenna Atkins ( also known as Hopson), juggles a few things with her primary focus being the CEO of the fantastic charity Dallaglio RugbyWorks https://www.dallagliorugbyworks.com/ . RugbyWorks works with young people who have been excluded helping them to change the odds and live included, fulfilling lives.

Zenna has had a career spanning the public, private and charitable sectors.

She is the former Chairman of Ofsted, the children and learners’ inspection and regulation body. In this role she spearheaded a new inspection regime, significant costs savings and the shift to put young people at the heart of inspection and education. She was also the Group Chairman of Places for People, a British property development and management company, turning over £280 million with a £3 billion asset base.

She served as a non-executive director on the board of the Royal Navy for ten years and chaired their audit committee. Zenna was a member of HM Treasury audit committee and has served on a number of other British government boards.

Zenna won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year award in 2000 and been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Portsmouth University.