Prue Leith started her catering company Leith’s Good Food and opened the Michelin starred restaurant Leith’s in the sixties. In the seventies she added Leith’s School of Food and Wine, and by the time she sold the three businesses in the nineties she employed 500 people and turned over £15million. Since then she has opened a training restaurant and catering [...]
Louisa Barnett is the MD & founder of Butterfly, the exquisite hair and make-up boutique in the City of London. In 2008, after more than a decade of working in the corporate world, Louisa realised there was an opportunity for something she had sought for years: a place to go to be revived and transformed [...]
Val Corbett, Director, Hoxton Apprentice; Associate Director, Training for Life. Director Hoxton Apprentice Born in Cape Town, Val Corbett has had a career in the media spanning national newspapers, magazines and BBC television. She was founder director of an independent TV production company producing several programmes for BBC TV and Channel 4. After that she [...]
Nisa Chitakasem has been involved in numerous new company ventures including an IPTV business, executive coaching business and mydeco, created by the team that started lastminute.com. Nisa helps people get the support they need to achieve what they want and deserve. She believes that too many people are left with inadequate support and, therefore, get [...]
The Islington Chamber of Commerce appointed New Chief Executive – Ronke Lawal. Ronke joined the Chamber in early January after spending 5 years running her own business as an advisor to small businesses, mainly on business development, marketing, events and PR. With a good knowledge of the Borough, having studied for her A levels at [...]
Christina knows all about perseverence and how to overcome the challenges faced with on a day to day basis. That is why Christina setup Aquitude to provide others with inspiration and guidance on how to be successful in this climate. We speak with Christina regularly and Aquitude also provide WATC members with some great articles. [...]
Heather White has been described not so much as a person but as a phenomenon. As an authority on networking she sweeps aside much of the nonsense and focuses on what is authentic, practical and produces long term results. Her speaking approach is direct, interactive and fun. She gets straight to the issues which hold [...]
Suzanne Doyle-Morris, PhD is an author, academic, entrepreneur, international speaker and accredited executive coach specialising in strategic career development and leadership coaching for high-potential executive women. She is International Coach Federation accredited and is a member of the Professional Speakers Association. She is one of the world’s top experts on gender equality, diversity in the [...]
Justine Trueman is author of “Detox your Finances” – The Ultmate Book of Money Matters for Women. Justine lives in Paris so we were very lucky to spend some time with Justine to understand how the book evolved and why it is so relevant at the moment What made you decide to write a book? [...]