Alice Thompson

Alice is the co-founder of a leading social enterprise, Social Bite, famous for bringing the likes of George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Harry & Meghan and many more to Scotland.

Social Bite is a national cafe chain employing a third of its staff from homelessness while providing additional support services to those in need. But Social Bite wanted to go further and use the organisation as a catalyst for real, systemic change.

While distributing over 150,000 items of fresh food to the homeless community every year, Social Bite also ran ‘Sleep in the Park’, twice, raising £8million and ultimately saw the implementation of the ‘Housing First’ policy which they partnered with the Scottish Government to deliver, housing over 600 people.

They also built the first of its kind ‘Social Bite Village’, housing up to 20 people at a time with 24/7 on-site support, to demonstrate an alternative to the broken temporary housing system.

In 2020, with Social Bite fully established and employing over 100 people, Alice flew the nest to begin a new chapter.

She retrained as a Business Coach and began working with other purpose-led individuals and companies in need of a fresh perspective.

Alice prides herself on a science-based approach combining neurochemistry and enneagram work with coaching techniques to unlock her client’s true potential while maintaining their wellbeing.

She is passionate about having real conversations with self-aware people who value integrity and are ready to be challenged, to create powerful shifts in their lives and their organisations. The themes she speaks on include:

• What “purpose-led” really means
• The Social Bite journey
• Using the Enneagram for true self development
• social impact
• resilience
• mental health
• managing stress
• work-life balance
• self belief
• creativity
• leadership
• entrepreneurship

Alice now holds 3 Honorary Doctorate degrees, an ITV Pride of Britain Award, a Higher Diploma in Coaching, a Higher Diploma in People Management & several certificates in Neurochemistry and The Enneagram of Personality, as well as a TEDx talk which is available here.

From keynotes to Q&As and panel discussions, Alice has spoken at events for a huge range of clients including Amnesty International, The British Council and PWC. ​​