About us

Laura McHarrie is a business adviser, who knows how fit you need to be to start, build and manage a business. After an early climb up the corporate ladder, she started two businesses, a retail outlet and a freelance practice. In between, she was Managing Director of a medium sized fashion business that she had to liquidate during the millennium dot com boom.

Working part time in a freight forwarding company, she trained for two years at Weymouth College. There she obtained a teaching qualification and now puts all that learning to practice, managing the brilliant BusinessXchange programme; a learning and support network for Dorset business owners.

Four years ago Laura became a founder member of the Toastmasters International Speakers Club in Dorchester, where new and experienced speakers meet up to hone their communication and leadership skills. Like all good networkers she is a socially active online and is an avid Blog Writer. Whatever is left of her spare time she likes to work out, with a large glass or two of red, she enjoys the theatre, travelling and rock festivals

WSX provides services to stimulate the growth of our local and regional economies by enhancing enterprise development and improving businesses’ performance.

It operates across the SE and SW of England and work with associate companies and partners operating across a wider area. It delivers business support, design, innovation and sustainability support, peer group and mentoring activiites including BusinessXchange and Rural-Net