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Business Women in Action London

#BWiA16 THE Event for Business Women

Friday 4 November 2016 
9.30 am - 4.00 pm

Business Women in Action #BWiA16
National Conference

280 Bishopsgate, Liverpool Street, EC2M 4RB

Come & Join Us to Celebrate & Learn
from Women in Business.
An exciting & relevant day

The Business Women in Action London Conference brings an awesome, action-packed day - great mix of speakers, interactive workshops, networking (fast & slow)  and, this year, Creche run by qualified staff.
This is your “must attend” event of 2016 for mixing business with pleasure!
Thanks to our sponsors - just £30 for the whole day
including refreshments.

Learn, network, enjoy and celebrate! Be inspired by the amazing speakers’ stories of success and challenges, attend essential workshops designed for your business growth, meet and network with savvy, sassy, like-minded business women. You will rock!

Let's walk you through the day.....
You'll receive a warm welcome from your hosts, Yuliana and Jackie
who'll lead you through to refreshments, introduce you to others to network; you'll see a terrific array of stands and raffle prizes.  
All monies from the raffle go directly to Ovacome, the charity supporting
those affected by ovarian cancer.
Now's time for some fast 'n' furious Speednetworking with Jackie.  
You'll love the fast, focused pace with maximum contacts!
Follow us through now to the Conference Room, where nicely warmed up
and excited by the action, you will hear from outstanding speakers, who'll answer:

Along the way will be something cool, pink and sparkling for refreshments
and delicious food during the mid-morning break and networking lunch-time.
Don't forget that there's a professionally run Creche for your little people
to have fun and learn, whilst you're doing the same!
Will the 1 Minute STAR be you?
Great opportunity to let everyone (around 100 audience) to hear about your business.
&
Who'll be winning The Best Presentation Awards? That maybe you!

We're guessing that by now you'll have recognised a theme amongst
the expertise and passion...
Dr Frank Luntz, author of "Words That Work": It’s not what you say, It’s what people hear describes the decision making process and communication based on feeling rather than information.
The Importance of Communication is this year's BWiA theme.
Come along and communicate with us!

Our Amazing Speakers

Sarah Arrow

Birds on the Blog

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Award-winning internationally recognised content marketer and visibility consultant. Sarah knows the secret to success is to show up and open the door so it can enter your life.

Dr Ava Eagle Brown

Your BackGround or Failures Don't Have to Determine Your Altitude

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Multi-award winning International Speaker, Author and Transformation mindset coach, Dr Ava Eagle Brown is in a class by herself.

Ava coaches, trains and speaks globally to help others shift their mindsets to change their lives and businesses . She is the author of her memoir The Mango Girl ( out in Waterstones , Barnes & Nobles, WH Smith and Amazon) soon to be a feature film.

Ava has moved from incest, rape, failed marriages and being homeless to a household name globally. She has shared stage with the likes of Eric Thomas, Lisa Nichols, Nick Vujicic, Andy Harrington, Hollywood -Sheryl Lee Ralph, Paul O’Mahony, Darren Winters, Mac Attram, Reena Marla, Simon Coulson, Paul Preston , Joseph McClendon 3rd among others of influence and status in this space.

Jennelle Reece-Gardner

Venus Rising

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Jennelle is a 22 year old up and coming poet and writer, who has just recently begun performing her spoken word pieces in small venues around London. Having a keen interest in current events, her poetry touches on themes of womanhood, social/racial injustice, uplifting other young people and the trials and tribulations of trying to find one's identity.

Annabel Kaye

Can you outsource without losing control of your Data and fall foul of GDPR?

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Annabel Kaye founded Irenicon (a specialist HR and employment law consultancy) in 1980 and KoffeeKlatch for people who pay freelancers in 2009. Since then she has helped thousands of business people work out how to contract and manage the people they pay.

She believes passionately that real agreements can be integrated into your business model and used to strengthen and protect your business.

Her training as a Professional Speaker and Stand Up Comic combine with her long legal and practical experience to create uniquely entertaining and educational talks that leave you with real actions you can use to improve your business.

Christine Marsh

Stimulus for Change: Imposed or Instigated?

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Christine has extensive experience in the private and public sectors working with different business disciplines and across many cultures. She left corporate life in 1990 having held senior management positions for new product development, supply chain, learning and development and HR to set up her own business Prime Objectives. She links her own personal experience and practical knowledge to the current challenges being facing in these fast moving & unpredictable times. Christine is held in high regard as a trusted facilitator and international speaker.

Jane Beedle

From there to Here - or, How did THAT happen. A description of how a chat over a cup of tea turned into a garden design business and how that led on to a place in the Great British Bake Off Ten 2016

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I hope the audience will take away the message that within reason you should follow your dream, you may not always get where you had originally envisaged but the journey will be fun and the destination may be more exciting that you imagined.

Jane Beedle is a professional garden designer of 15 years, amateur baker and recent finalist on The Great British Bake Off. Hailing from Beckenham, Jane swapped her gardening rake for her rolling pin and followed her family’s passion for baking into the famous GBBO tent.

After serving countless cakes, biscuit’s, fleur-de-lis mousses and a pie in the shape of the Tudor Rose, Jane made it to the final where she received the highly coveted Paul Hollywood handshake thanks to her delicious meringue crown. Since Christmas she has been appearing regularly on ITV’s Lorraine show.

Kathy Ennis

How to Magnetise Your Online Marketing and Generate Leads

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Your website or blog is your shopfront on the Internet high-street and, just like on the high-street, not everyone who visits your website will be ready to buy. It takes time to build the know-like-trust cycle that turns leads into customers. So, how do you encourage your website visitors, Facebook fans or Instagram groupies to engage with you so that the buying cycle can begin?

Kathy Ennis will share with you how to use one of the most efficient techniques, a compelling Lead Magnet. to tempt your target audience to exchange their precious contact details.

Nick Howe Sponsor

Regional Enterprise Manager for NatWest Business Banking in London - Sponsor

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Content

Rita Beckwith OBE

CEO City Cruises

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Rita is CEO of City Cruises, the leading tour boat operator on the River Thames in London.Rita founded City Cruises with her husband Gary in 1985, though the roots of their river business go back to 1976 when they bought a fuel barge which provided a filling station for many boat operators. In 1985 they acquired the company’s first sightseeing vessel, The King, which operated a daily summer service between Central London and Hampton Court.Today, City Cruises carries more than 3 million passengers a year on a wide range of sightseeing, entertainment and charter services.

Ella Sharp

The Power of Dressing without Power Dressing

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How do I choose the best styles for me?

I’ll be talking about how we can use our clothes to express our personal style, boost confidence and communicate our brand promise. Typically, we all focus on what we perceive to be the weakest points of our individual image, in this session I will be discussing how we can analyse our bodies and image objectively, giving some examples of how to dress flatteringly for specific audiences whilst not letting the event or our clothes overpower the our personalities.

Judith Germain

Unleash YOUR Inner Maverick: Implement the key attributes that drive your business success

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Judith Germain helps you achieve more by analysing what's not working and showing you how to permanently fix it. She does this by utilising transformational maverick strategies and techniques.

This is achieved by:• Calibrating to a maverick (wilfully independent) mindset• Mastering the 8 maverick capabilities that all successful leaders demonstrate• Extending your influence, by the effective utilisation of the 3 key power bases

Any business, individual or manager can be transformed, by becoming successful leaders in their chosen arena.

When the status quo no longer brings comfort, when you really need to get what you want, and you have a compelling reason for change, then connect with Judith and give her a call.

She is the leading authority on mavericks and is considered a hopeful pragmatist. She is also an author, leadership and business consultant, mentor, and strategist. Judith is a keynote speaker & her expert opinion has appeared in numerous publications including national broadsheets and leading industry press.

She believes that one day we will live in a world where the truly powerful strives for the greater good.

Emma Stroud

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Emma Stroud has an eclectic work background which encompasses her various passions. Her portfolio career includes businesswoman, MC, TEdx speaker and comedy performer.As well heading up an international leadership consultancy Truth Works -helping senior executives, business owners and entrepreneurs find, speak and live their truth, she also writes and creates sell out comedy shows.Her passion for creating stories that provoke laughter and thought in her audience includes award winning one woman show – Coming out of My Box in 2015. Emma also runs a comedy improvisation troupe – The Banana Bunch, which just completed a sold out run in London 2017.Emma hosts a variety of national business events including the European Women in Sales Awards at The Savoy Hotel, the European Women in Construction and Engineering Awards.

Tanya Mann Rennick

MC

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Tanya can’t quite believe Jackie trusts her to come back to MC at BWiA17. She’s faithfully promised not to do anything outrageous but then, she crossed her fingers behind her back…

Tanya’s a Mindset coach, particularly interested in helping people to overcome adversity and challenging situations. She totally want you to be the best you can be, no matter what, and overcome whatever’s holding you back.

Because she’s considered an authority on Mindset and Emotional Resilience, she’s been invited to speak at the House of Lords, the European Parliament and at multiple conferences, seminars and workshops across the UK and Europe.