Being open to opportunities is key to building a career in the housebuilding industry, according to Natalie Elphicke Ross, director of the Housing & Finance Institute. Speaking at the Home Builders Federation’s Future Talent Conference in Birmingham, Elphicke Ross told the audience of housebuilder graduates, trainees and degree apprentices about her wide-ranging career which “has been a series of adventures and opportunities which have taken me to collect my OBE and be elected to parliament”.