Sherella Mitchell Pi Partnership

What Do You Enjoy Most About Your Role

Having a varied role, constantly learning, and developing my skills. Working with Lisa.

Interests Outside of Work

Keeping fit, gardening, and interior design.

Top Achievement To Date

Becoming a grandma and fostering children for 11 years. Using my skills as a foster carer to help other carers.

Sherella Mitchell Pi Partnership

Sherella Mitchell

Team Support

At Pi, Sherella supports Lisa Riordan, Head of Trustee Executive Services. Her responsibilities include complex diary management, coordinating meetings, and preparing draft minutes and action logs. She also provides wider support to the Trustee Executive Services team, assisting with client projects, documentation, and day-to-day office management.

Sherella plays a key role in organising trustee meetings. This involves scheduling, preparing agendas, monitoring actions, and ensuring follow-ups are completed on time. She also arranges travel and accommodation and helps coordinate client documentation, ensuring meetings run smoothly and effectively.

In addition to her client-facing work Sherella helps to build team-cohesion by organising team-building activities, lunches, and events for the Trustee Executive Services team.

Known for her proactive and organised approach, Sherella provides reliable support to both colleagues and clients. Her work helps the team deliver high-quality services and achieve its objectives effectively.

Prior to joining Pi in August 2022, Sherella was an Office Manager on a government employability contract. Her experience in that role, working closely with Jobcentre Plus customers to receive career’s advice and guidance, together with her responsibility for scheduling client appointments, managing consultant diaries, overseeing office operations, and preparing training materials for career development programmes, has been experience for her role at Pi.

Diversity

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone has different needs, and we support this balance offering true flexibility in how our people manage their time and fully support part time working and a family friendly approach.

Communication

Communication

We believe in clear and transparent communication and create regular opportunities for internal communication. Our regular business updates and opportunities to input into the business ensures everyone feels part of the team and on the same page at Pi, ensuring our hybrid working model is effective regardless of where you are based.

Development

Development

Nurturing every Pi Person is important to us and we want to ensure everyone has the opportunity for continued professional development by providing the space to do this alongside client commitments. Everyone has an individual Personal Development Plan catered to them, whether they are on the start of their journey with Pi or those looking at ways to transition into the next stage of their careers.

Everyone has the opportunity for a regular development and progression review and everyone has ownership over their own development with input and guidance of senior member of the team where required.

We provide regular opportunities to share knowledge amongst our teams through Lunch Time Learn in sessions and actively encourage involvement and participation into this.

Culture

Culture

We are an open, friendly and supportive team who thrive in a flexible and autonomous environment. Our people are trusted to get on with things, adding value and individual contribution, whilst maintaining a good work life balance and ideally having fun along the way.

We want to ensure we cultivate our special culture and our focus is to maintain our exceptional engagement levels. We are proud to have been awarded the Sunday Times Best Place to Work for small businesses in 2023 and 2024, and also in 2025 after moving to the medium-sized business category.

Employee Owned

Employee Owned

Our employee ownership structure is central to our philosophy of making sure every Pi Person is part of our success story, contributing to how we run the business, and sharing in the profits. We know that being successful is not just down to numbers, it’s about our people who all contribute in their unique way to our success and creating a working environment where everyone has a voice.

Visit Us

2nd Floor Tuition House, 27-37 St. George’s Road, Wimbledon, London, SW19 4EU

Email Us

enquiries@pipg.co.uk

our team

Amanda Burden

Director and Governance Specialist

Amanda is a Board Director of Pi Partnership Group and leads the development of Pi’s services. She works closely with clients, the Pi team and professional advisers to ensure all of Pi’s services meet the changing needs of the pension market and deliver clear value to Pi’s clients.

Amanda has over twenty-five years’ experience in the pensions industry and, as well as ensuring Pi’s services continue to meet the needs of our clients in a rapidly changing pension landscape, is also a member of Pi’s Executive Management Team. She provides specialist project management for clients on a range of services, including adviser selection and review, trustee board assessment and governance design.

As well as being a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and Chair of the PMI London Group, Amanda holds PMI certificates in Pensions Automatic Enrolment and DC Governance, was a past Prince2 practitioner and is a Certified Risk Management Practitioner.

What do you most enjoy about your role:  Successfully delivering complex projects and creating a happy team environment.

Interests outside work: Travel, theatre and as part of Abundance London helping create beautiful spaces in urban settings.

Top achievement to date: Competing in the 2005/06 Round the World Clipper race.