Running, leading and managing a business doesn’t come with a magical handbook. It comes with life experience, shaped and designed by the uniqueness of the personality of who we are. There are 101 challenges and great opportunities, pain in all shades of colours that leads to growth where strength and confidence will be developed. Not...Read More

Julie Girgenti is a highly imaginative and creative event planner who set up her company, Exceptional Events so she could help make people’s dreams come true. Exceptional Events offers personal bespoke luxury events of the highest quality exclusively for those who are after a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience to define their most special and important occasions,...Read More

The founder of Calla Shoes shares her top tips on balancing motherhood with launching a new business. For many women striking the balance between motherhood and career can be a tough challenge, especially if they’re starting a new business. But when Jennifer Bailey was pregnant with her youngest child, she decided to start her first...Read More

Do you work a 9-5 job, but dream of breaking free and setting up in business for yourself? You are not alone, according to a Gallup study which finds that 87 per cent of workers around the world don’t feel engaged in their place of work. While it’s easy to talk about going self-employed, the thought...Read More

First and foremost, I must stress that there are severe consequences associated with making it difficult for women to have pursue a career and have children simultaneously. From my own personal experience coming from Italy, where women are deterred from having children should they wish to pursue a career, I have seen the negative burden...Read More

I am a single working mother to two wonderful children and I can’t stress enough the importance of a good routine in being successful as an entrepreneur and a parent. How do I manage a busy life as a mother, author and entrepreneur with two offices and two houses in two different countries, three companies,...Read More

Sarah Willingham is an entrepreneur, investor and consumer expert – best known for her previous role as one of the ‘dragons’ of the popular BBC series Dragons’ Den. Her main successes as an entrepreneur have included turning The Bombay Bicycle Club into the largest and most successful Indian restaurant chain in the UK and taking...Read More

It has been said that we are entering the decade of the female entrepreneur with one in ten women now wanting to start their own business. Yet, we all know that having an idea is often the easy part, in fact, those that are good at having new ideas can effortlessly generate thirty or forty...Read More