This week’s Wednesday Women (women from the One of Many community) features a little about each of our Soft Power Summit Speakers.

There were too many of them and not enough wednesdays, so I am giving you a “busy woman’s guide” to the women we are featuring this week and next in the Soft Power Summit.

Of course to read more about the Summit and register, head here: http://goo.gl/Ws8b5L 

It’s not too late, and you can catch up with the recordings. (oh and it’s free!)

 

Lisa Barnwell

Pregnancy mover and shaker. Corporate Consultant. Hands on Auntie. Yoga lover. Aroma junkie

Lisa Barnwell is passionate about pregnancy, motherhood and embracing change.

With over twelve years closely supporting London’s pregnancy set, Lisa has become the go-to person for the high level, ambitious and mindful new mother-to-be AND the corporation or business she is a part of.

Each year thousands of talented women have their career aspirations stalled or exit the corporate world completely. The cause? Businesses are failing to adequately address the ambitions of mothers returning to the workplace and value their additional skillset and ability.

Over a yummy salad we’ll chat about:

• What happens when biological fact meets corporate culture and how this impacts women’s experience of equality
• The importance of the integration of feminine values of leadership from both men and women to positively influence current behaviours and bias around pregnancy, motherhood and working parents.
• Why mothers make great leaders
• Why pregnancy is an advantage to businesses.

 

Ann Wilson

The Wealth Chef. Financial educator. Wife. Mum of 2 furry kids. Nature lover. Rocker and Biker.

Ann is a multi-millionaire with a difference. She didn’t have a huge family inheritance, a business she sold for millions, or a lucky win on the lottery. She simply learned how to master a key ingredient in life – money- and use it to live her dreams and become financially free.

Despite being highly educated, she was completely financially illiterate and as a result found herself in her 20s with loans, credit cards and money drama. It wasn’t her fault. Like most of us, she was simply never taught the keys to being financially savvy and building wealth instead of consuming it all and then some in the form of debt. She swore to herself she would figure out a better way.

By age 38 Ann achieved her own financial freedom, meaning she could chose to stop actively working and her wealth would continue to grow and support her chosen lifestyle.

She is passionate about bringing money out of the closet for women.

Over a charming prix fixe menu we will discover:

• Why women’s “economic liberation” has lagged behind in our goal for equality
• The Prince Charming / Princess fallacy around who “should” handle the money stuff in a relationship, why so many incredibly intelligent and successful women often take the “back-seat”
• Why being “The Good Girl” is keeping women locked in cycles of poverty and martyrdom and why we need to break this pattern if we want to fully express our soft power.
• Why being selfish is vital to women’s financial liberation
• Understanding the different roles in Wealth Leadership so we can have a way more joyful relationships with all those we are financially connected to.
• Lots of other tasty recipes for building wealth and sharing it

 

Bernadette Doyle

Entrepreneur. Internet marketing superstar. Recovering Lone Ranger. Mother of two.

Bernadette Doyle created Client Magnets to help self-employed people solve one of their biggest business problems: attract a steady stream of clients. Formerly a full-time training consultant, Bernadette built an impressive corporate client list and delivered sales training all over the world. But the imminent arrival of her first child caused her to become disillusioned with trading her time for money and wanted to seek out new ways to profit from her expertise.

Since then she has made the transition from full time consultant to information marketer, relocated to Ireland and now runs her business part time so she can devote more time to raising her two sons. Bernadette has attracted a loyal following who rave about her down to earth yet inspiring approach.

She is wildly passionate about helping women make and keep wealth through businesses that support their lifestyle.

So over a dish of Irish stew and soda bread we’ll talk:

• Whether “the boys club” in business has impacted her journey and how it’s informed her choices.
• How the internet can be the great equalizer for women in business
• Why ambition can get in the way of success
• The difference between making money and making it work for you
• The importance of farwelling the lone ranger and reaching out for support

 

Suzanne Dibble

Multi-award winning city lawyer. Now small business law expert. Wife. Mum of two. Foodie. One smart cookie.

Multi-award winning City Lawyer Suzanne Dibble nearly suffered a catastrophic health breakdown with the long hours and high pressure of succeeding in the male dominated world of billion pound mergers and acquisitions. Having worked with Richard Branson, Simon Woodroffe and many other famous entrepreneurs and having been a board director of a £100m+ turnover company, she knows what it’s like to burn the midnight oil.

Her journey since then has led her to set up her own law firm helping other entrepreneurial women (for which she was runner up in the Law Society’s Solicitor of the Year Award) and more recently to helping female entrepreneurs be successful with their businesses through her mentoring, mastermind groups, communities and events.

Over paella and a little glass of sangria Suzanne is going to share with us:

• The impact of corporate life on women
• how acting consistently with a masculine energy can result in potentially drastic consequences
• how she is truly thriving now that she is able to successfully flex between masculine and feminine and come from soft power
• the power of solid support for women
• a lawyer’s perspective on “equality” and what it really means for two busy professionals with kids
• many other delicious morsels.

 

Sonia Brown, MBE 

Coach. Entrepreneur. Seven-figure business owner. Mother. Wife. Crazy puppy owner. Wine-lover. Occasional yoga bunny. Ordinary woman just like you.

Sonia founded the National Black Women’s Network; Let’s Talk Business Networking Forum and Sistatalk: the UK’s leading online forum for women looking to connect with leading companies, decision makers and industry peers. In addition to this she is the founder of the Inspirational Women’s Super-Summit which launched in London and the Scottish Parliament and the Female and BME Business Led Forum from the Mayor’s Office, London.

Sonia has successfully worked with the who’s who in business such as ITN, BBC, Lloyds, Jaguar, NatWest, ICAEW and the BBA. She is currently delivering the Community Ambassador Programme on behalf of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and the Metropolitan Police Service.

She is endorsed by government departments and ministers – everyone we speak to loves this woman!

The daughter of Jamaican immigrants who came to help build the “Motherland” Sonia found her soft power not in spite of her obstacles, but because of them.

Our virtual lunch will focus on:

• Purpose: how to use obstacles as a source of power, not a limitation in order to create a more confident, authentic and fulfilling life
• Passion: Overcoming the internal fears and external negativity to find direction and enjoy a big, rewarding life
• Power: how to create your own happiness route map by leveraging your existing tools
• And some other yummy tidbits

 

Karen Knowler

Founder of TheRawFoodCoach.com. Creator of “International Raw Food Day”. Hay House Author. Online Business Coach.

Karen is go to woman when it comes to accessing all the energy you need to fulfill on your life’s dreams and hopes. Without energy, we are devoid of soft power. And it must start with nourishing the body, mind and spirit.

No-one is better poised to share this with us. She founded the “International Association of Raw Food Chefs, Coaches & Teachers” (IARFCCT), “Go Raw!” magazine, and She has been hailed as “The World’s Premier Raw Food Coach” – in fact she was the very first Raw Food Coach on the planet and actually invented the term, because Raw Food Coaches didn’t exist! She has incredible knowledge, experience and ability to make going and staying raw easy, simple, delicious and doable for literally anyone who has the desire, and has coached and worked with people from every corner of the globe, from stay-at-home-mums to well-known celebrities.

As the author of “Raw Food Made Simple” and “Eat Right for Your Personality Type” (Hay House 2012), Karen has been a major player in bringing raw food education and awareness to millions worldwide for over 15 years.

In April 2012 Karen won the prestigious award for the “2012 Outstanding Achievement in the Business of Coaching” from the International Association of Women in Business Coaching as a result of her work training other raw food coaches and teachers worldwide.

She has recently started working on her new project “The High Vibrational Woman”and “The High Vibrational Business” which enable her to discuss more than just soaked almonds and how to juice.

Over nori rolls and a spinach and mango smoothie we’ll uncover:

• The gift of the woman’s body, how to discover your eater type, and how to choose foods that truly support your energy, productivity and potential
• The importance of our health and vitality to have the energy we require to make our impact in the world
• Simple steps to having more vitality
• The role of our mind, heart and purpose in giving us access to more energy than we can imagine.

 

Nicola Bird 

Coach. Entrepreneur. Seven-figure business owner. Mother. Wife. Crazy puppy owner. Wine-lover. Occasional yoga bunny. Ordinary woman just like you.

In her work at The Simplicity Project, Nicola works with entrepreneurs (especially high-achieving women) who are working too hard, struggling too often and feeling like there’s something missing from their experience of life.

Having enjoyed huge financial success on the back of her software company “Jigsaw Box” – a hugely popular coaching platform, Nicola has spent the last couple of years exploring the subject of simplicity, and the impact it can have on our results and more importantly our moment by moment experience of life.

Over our virtual soup and sandwiches we will be delving into:

• How in an effort to achieve and perform on this equal playing field, we tend to complicate.
• How our complication prevents us from experiencing the yumminess of life.
• How by simplifying she was able to stop worrying about her kids, her business and whether her life is heading in the direction she thinks it should.
• How simplification will help us unfold our lives with grace and ease.

 

Linzi Boyd

Serial entrepreneur. Brand strategist. Twitter superstar. Wife. Mum of two. Passionate youth advocate.

Linzi Boyd is a serial entrepreneur. She left school at 15, and went from working in a clothes shop to opening one of her own by 18. She sold this by age 20. And her second company was a successful Footwear brand, now recognised in the design Museum as design classics! Linzi sold the business to Caterpillar by age 24.

Linzi went on to spend years building, refreshing and renovating brands, through “Surgery Group” – one of London’s leading communication agencies. She’s worked with brands like Superdry, G-star, Lacoste…

She now works with A-List celebrities and business leaders helping them to create long-term brand value. She published her No1 best seller “Brand Famous -­ How to get everyone talking about your business” which was championed by the Chartered institute of Marketing, to all of its members, as their book of the month.

Over a glass of bubbly and something light we’ll be discussing:

• The power of your authenticity to create opportunity.
• Why business leaders are the new celebrities and how women can take advantage of that.
• How to get everyone talking about you or your business.
• The climate for business leadership, and how we really can change the world.
• And other delicious flavour sensations.

 

Shaa Wasmund

Founder of The New School of Business, Curators of Awesome, and Smarta.com. No. 1 UK bestselling author. Entrepreneur. Single mum. Collaborator extraordinaire. Intensely loyal friend. Green smoothie freak.

Shaa has never been one to follow the crowd. Going from the US to the UK, from a state school to a scholarship at the City of London School for Girls, from LSE to writing for Cosmo, from the UK’s only female boxing manager to founding multiple wildly successful businesses, she’s known for blowing up whatever industry she goes into.

She’s worked alongside some amazing people in the process, ranging from Chris Eubanks, Don King, and Barry Hearn to Sir Bob Geldof and a then-unknown Sir James Dyson, who she took from working around a kitchen table to having a 60% market share in just a few years.

But until a few years ago Shaa was oblivious to the fact that some women had a different experience of business than men. In fact she recalls how she wished everyone would just get over the gender thing already!

That all changed in the aftermath of one speaking gig.

After giving a presentation in which she said that being a woman in business was no different than being a man, Shaa was meeting members of the audience afterwards when a woman came up to her and (politely) gave it to her straight between the eyes, lambasting her for being elitist and arrogant.

“So you’re confident and have no fear of failure,” she said — “but that’s not every woman’s experience. You have a responsibility to support the other women not blessed with these resources.

“Now what are you going to do about it?”

That’s exactly what we’ll explore over a virtual lunch:

• Whether the playing field in business is really level for men and women
• Why some women don’t enjoy shameless self promotion
• The extraordinary power of true collaboration
• The impact of conscious network design for professional women
• And more juicy morsels…

 

If you haven’t already, it’s not too late to grab a bite to eat and join us in this lunchtime series of tasty morsels and inspiration. Head here: http://goo.gl/Ws8b5L 

 

 

 

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