Organised by Like minded females (LMF Network CIC) @LMFnetwork
We need more female founders! We talk to female founders about their journey, stories and successes! Prepare to be inspired!
About this Event
Our panel of females founders share their stories, their pivots and most importantly their failures - which shall we discuss first?
Who are our speakers?
Kim Darragon - Kim Does Marketing
"How I ended up going freelance – from leaving France and moving to the UK, to quitting my full-time job to start my own consultancy, to challenges with burning out and confronting the (many!) doubts of my family with my career choices."
Khaleelah Jones- Dime Digital
"From starting up to scaling up: going from a small team to an 11-person, 300k/year business, making the leap from a service- to a product-based business (a real work in progress) and confronting the many leadership, soft skill and personal life challenges of being a CEO. "
Lucy Von Sturmer - Humblebrag
"How I found my business partner - I knew I wanted to scale and grow into a strategic agency, and that I had 50% of the right ingredients. Through a process of dating and trial and error, I've learned that 1 = 1 can equal 5."
Key takeaways?
- How to start a business? From side hustles, ideas to taking the leap
- Best failure stories and comebacks
- Conversations on Imposter syndrome and cultural expectations
- Success stories and tips for us to start a business today
- Build up confidence on how to manage business even in tough times
- Why community is important as a startup founder
Format?
Live panel with audience Q&A
"The best need to know workshop for founders, leaders & side hustlers!"
Did you know?
- Only 1 in 3 UK entrepreneurs is female: a gender gap equivalent to 1.1 million missing businesses. (Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship, HM Treasury 2019)
- In 2017, only 5.6% of UK women run their own businesses, compared to 15% of women in Canada, almost 11% of women in the US, and over 9% of women in Australia and the Netherlands. (Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship, HM Treasury 2019)
- Women in the USA are twice as likely to be entrepreneurially active as women in the UK. The entrepreneurial rates for men are roughly the same in the UK as the US, any significant increase in business formation will only come from encouraging more women into business. (Harding, R., ‘State of Women’s Enterprise in the UK’ Prowess, 2007)
Womxn make up 17% of the UK Small business market, 50% of the purchasing power and can contribute an additional £300billion in to the economy - Though, the startup market sees 90% of startups fail in the 1st 5 years and less than 3% funded...
Who is your host?
Sonya Barlow is an award winning entrepreneur, TEDxSpeaker & Diversity consultant. She is in the top 1% of Linkedin with average engagement rates of 35% and views of 8,000. Sonya has built her business, consultancy and brand through Linkedin. Sonya has grown her business page from 0 to 4.5K following in 6 months, creating a Linkedin viral post in June for BLM.
Follow her on Instagram & connect with her on Linkedin
This event is kindly sponsored by LMF Network CIC & Hatch Enterprise
Please note : Hatch Enteprise will be collecting data on this event in order to create quality programmes for businesses and entrepreneurs. Data will be used in accordance to the policy
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