Jessica Huie is founder of Britain’s award-winning multi-racial greeting card and gift company, Colorblind Cards (www.colorblindcards.com). She is credited with having made history as the first company to secure a presence for a black card range in the UK high street (2006.) Inspired by the high- street’s lack of black or brown super-heroes and princesses (her daughter was aged 7),...Read More
Christina Armstrong will be speaking on our Inspirational YOU ‘Leading Women’s’ panel on the Saturday 12th January 2013. Christina has 16 years marketing specializing in brand engagement, sponsorship and media planning. She is currently working as a freelance marketing consultant. During five years at BlackBerry Christina managed $100 million media...Read More
Dionne Edwards – Life and Careers Coach, Master NLP Practitioner and Hotel Business Owner . . . in other words an entrepreneur! After completing a law degree, Dionne changed her career direction and went into the call centre industry where she quickly climbed the ladder to take on Senior Executive roles. In 2001 and after only 5...Read More
Sarah Bailey (Solicitor at Arts Council England) will be joining our Inspirational YOU master class to discuss ‘Women at the top’ at the UK Supreme Court on Wednesday 28th November. Sarah is a former mental health nurse with 13 years’ experience in the public and third sectors. Before changing to a career in law in...Read More
Caryl Longley, General Counsel at Deloitte LLP will be joining our Inspirational YOU panel to discuss ‘Women at the top’ at the UK Supreme Court on Wednesday 28th November. Caryl Longley has over 25 years’ experience as a solicitor. She trained in private practice in her home city of Cardiff but has spent the majority of...Read More
Angela Arnold will be joining our ‘Getting to the top – a winning mindset’ master class at Birkbeck, University of London. Partner at BH Solicitors and Board Member of Carers Lewisham Angela Arnold is currently a Partner at a South London Firm and heads the Commercial, Employment and Litigation departments. Angela has a diverse experience...Read More
Inspirational YOU founder, Sonia Meggie has been featured in Black Enterprise Magazine’s Top Black Women of Power list, which features many outstanding black women from London who are making a significant impact in their chosen careers. Octavia Gordema MBE has featured many familiar faces such as ITN newsreader and Inspirational YOU board member, Charlene...Read More
FRIDAY 13TH JULY 2012 Will see the second instalment of the African Women in Business Conference. SOAS, London. 12-9pm This year’s event will be themed Women of influence. AAOE have a fantastic line up of the UK’s most influential women to speak at this event. Speakers include Baroness Oona King, Kubi Springer and Eryca Freemantle....Read More
Dr Halima Moncrieffe will be joining the Inspirational YOU panel entitled ‘The power and influence of science’ at Birkbeck, University of London on Saturday 30th June 2012. Dr Moncrieffe is an award-winning scientist specialising in the immune system. She gained her PhD from Imperial College investigating lupus, an autoimmune disease that is more common in...Read More
