Scarlett Allen-Horton: Refusing the Script

Scarlett Allen-Horton’s story cuts against the usual odds — and shows what can happen when someone refuses the script that life hands them. She left home at 16, became a mum at 19, and grew up around other people’s expectations of what she could or couldn’t become. She didn’t buy it. She made the final of The Apprentice, built a successful executive search firm, and has become a voice for leadership that lifts others with it.

In this conversation, we go past the CV and into the real stuff — identity, adversity, and the mindset that can turn something improbable into something inevitable.