After reading English at Oxford University, Alex trained at the Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong, worked for Marco Pierre White at the Criterion and helped open various Rocco Forte properties. She then went on to set up Millers Bakery, with her husband Marcus Miller.
In 2008, Alex became the host of the highly acclaimed show, The Hotel Inspector. With several series firmly under her belt, Alex's latest venture The Fixer, hit BBC2 in January 2012. She has now done ten years as Hotel Inspector, and three years of travel shows as well as various restaurant programmes for the BBC and Channel 5.
Millers Bakery is now a 52,000 sq.ft operation, supplying most of the five-star hotels, restaurants and burger joints in London, as well as providing frozen and part-baked bread and pastries across the country.
Alex is also a trustee of the Landau Forte Academy Trust.

Lalli Howell was a Head Teacher for a special needs school in Sussex for 20 years. She has extensive experience in the field of autism and special education for early years. Lalli is a member of staff within a NHS autism assessment team as well as an Autism Advisor for both independent and state schools.

Lisa has 25 years of experience of working with young people with ASC, MLD, SLD, PMLD and complex needs. She has worked alongside a wide range of professionals and experts to create individualised programmes, placing young people at the centre of their learning.
She has piloted several successful inclusion projects and worked in a wide range of specialist educational settings, including providing high quality bespoke post 16 specialist provision and post 19 transition. She has also worked in the charity sector.
Lisa has always pioneered new ways of working that make a real difference to the lives of young people with a learning disability. Whilst recently studying for an MA in Experimental Psychology Lisa explored how innovative technology can be developed to support people with Autism. She believes passionately in expanding neurodiversity in the workplace and that the benefits this brings to corporate business is of equal value to that of the young person with a learning disability they employ.

After graduating the University of Sheffield with a First Class Honours in History and Politics, Greg has been heavily involved in the third sector, volunteering with Oxfam, Shelter, the NSPCC, and acting as the executive director of charity “Belong”– a day service for learning disabled adults in Sheffield. Greg has a wealth of relationship-fundraising and project management experience, after working for St Luke’s Hospice Sheffield and Cancer Research UK within multiple fundraising areas and now specialises in grant funding. He has also worked in hospitality, travel & tourism, and outdoor education.

Diana worked in the University of London Careers Advisory Service, then as a computer programmer before training to be a teacher. She has over twenty years of teaching experience in subjects including Science, Health & Social Care and Food Technology, and most recently delivering the ASDAN Certificate in Employability to sixth form students with learning disabilities. She also brings valuable experience of running a small business and café to the team.

Dawn began her career as a primary school teacher, during which time she developed a passion for teaching children with a range of special needs and learning disabilities. She later had the opportunity to support in the Food Technology and Design & Technology department at a local secondary school and most recently worked as a teacher in the Circle Project, which supported and taught students with a variety of complex needs. She delivered all curriculum subjects and prepared multi-sensory resources for subject support, developing new and personalised programmes for the teaching and learning of Maths, including the delivery and assessment of Entry Level qualifications and Life Skills.

Becky joined Team Domenica in October 2017 as a Job Coach supporting Zac in his Supported Internship at The Grand, moving to a Senior Job Coach role in 2018 with a team of Job Coaches. A Job Coach to Domenica, she also co-ordinates the support for the SIPs, working closely with the Job Coaches, teachers and employers to help secure paid employment for our candidates at the end of their placements.

Ellie has worked with people with learning disabilities from a young age. She volunteered at a local disability charity from the age of ten, inspiring her to pursue a path in this field. During her course in Childhood Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, she chose to focus much of her work and research on autism. This gave her a drive to help young people overcome barriers to access their community. Ellie has worked as a Travel Trainer for Ealing Mencap, then after spending a year teaching English in Taiwan she started at Team Domenica as a Training Mentor. After working closely with the candidates and helping them gain valuable skills, she is now enjoying supporting their progression into the workplace and finding them the opportunities they deserve.

Penny has over 20 years' experience of working with children, young people and adults with learning disabilities in a range of settings. She has worked as a Connexions Adviser based in schools, colleges and 6th forms for Brighton & Hove County Council as a Learning Disability Adviser and then within the SEND department as a Case Work Officer.

I have been the Educational Health & Care Plan (EHCP) Coordinator for Team Domenica for nearly 4 years and have loved working for the charity. Team Domenica enables candidates to grow, flourish and then move into paid employment which is fantastic.

Lucy joined Team Domenica in January 2019. She has extensive and wide-ranging experience in both the catering industry and the learning disability sector, having worked for a similar charity project in Cambridge before joining St John's College Brighton in 2011. Her hotel, restaurant and event catering background has enabled her to seamlessly join the team and she has been our café manager based in Hove library. Recently, she has set up a new café enterprise at St John's College where Team Domenica is now responsible for all the daily catering for staff and students of up to 200 people per day. This has contributed to our ongoing partnership with St John's and provides additional opportunities for all our candidates to flourish.

I have worked for Team Domenica for three years now progressing from a café assistant to a training mentor, and since September I have become our Coffee Development Manager. I love to see the valuable skills and experience our candidates gain from being at Team Domenica. We are very proud to say that we are the First coffee roaster in the UK where the coffee beans are roasted and packaged by young adults with learning disabilities. Our candidates still inspire me everyday with their amazing work ethic, team work and dedication to helping others.