International Women’s Day

"Women in Enterprise: Achieving Success and Growing your business"

The Islington Chamber of Commerce and Camden Women's Forum present this insightful and empowering networking evening with 2 formidable UK Business leaders. Learn how they achieved success and what it took to grow their businesses and develop their professional careers.

Keynote Speakers: Lara Morgan and Tanya Wheway

City Business Library
Guildhall- Entrance 3
Aldermanbury
London EC2V 7HH

March 8^th 2012

6pm-9pm

Tickets

Early Bird Tickets £12

Standard £16.50

For more information email info@islingtonchamber.org.uk

Keynote Speakers: Lara Morgan and Tanya Wheway

Agenda

6pm-620 - Arrivals

620-630 Introductions and Welcome: City Business Library and Islington Chamber of Commerce

630-650 – Lara Morgan – An Overview of her journey to success (with Q &A)

650-710 – Tanya Wheway – An Overview of her journey to success (with Q &A) ‘What is Success and Map for the Journey’

710-720 BREAK

720 – 8pm – The Perfect Pitch: 3 Women in Business will be given the opportunity to pitch their growth businesses; showcasing their business model and what areas they need to improve on.  Each Woman in Business will be given 5 minutes to present with an additional 5 minutes of comments from Lara and Tanya.

Each Pitch will be given invaluable advice by Tanya and Lara on growing their business.  A great opportunity to promote your business services to a dedicate business audience.

If you would like to pitch your growth business please email info@islingtonchamber.org.uk with your business details and why you deserve to pitch to these to successful entrepreneurs.  This is only open to those who have been trading for 2 or more years.

Lara Morgan

Founder and Ex. CEO Pacific Direct Group Ltd

Founder of Company Shortcuts Ltd

Tanya Wheway

Chairman

Wheway Lifestyle International

About our Speakers

Lara Morgan is the founder of Company Shortcuts.com and best selling Amazon author of "More Balls than Most", her story about building a global enterprise. Lara is a straight-talking entrepreneur who understands the frustrations felt by small and medium-sized businesses that have lost their way. Rather than administering generic big picture advice, Lara is dedicated to delivering honest and practical help to enable businesses to achieve their full potential.

Over seventeen years, Lara built her own international business, Pacific Direct, before selling a majority share 99% holding of the company for £20 million in 2008. This experience and passion for business drove Lara to where she is today, with an ambitious plan to support entrepreneurs who want to maximize success.

Tanya Wheway

Tanya began her career in the hospitality industry working in the Marketing Department of Hotel Corporation of America and Western International Hotels, based at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC.  She returned to the UK to open a group marketing office for the company based at the Carlton Tower Hotel in London.

In 1989 Allan and Tanya co-founded Wheway Lifestyle International (WLI) providing consultancy and management services at the premier end of the market in Europe, Middle East, Far East and the United States. 

For four years the Wheways also owned and operated Britain's premier Day Spa, The Sanctuary, in London's fashionable Covent Garden, which Tanya, as the Managing Director of the Sanctuary, developed into a very successful business, quadrupling the profits over WLI’s four year tenure and increasing the footfall to over 42,000 ladies a year to this unique Day Spa. 

In 2012 Tanya will be running a series of special five-day residential programmes at the Champneys flagship in Tring; these will target men and women 50+ who want to maximize on health, relationships and the pleasure of life.