On Wednesday this week (5th March) I was fortunate enough to be able to attend a great networking event arranged by Success Network for International Women’s Day.
The theme for this year’s event was ‘Networking and Working Together for Success’. As well as the usual networking opportunities that you might expect, Success Network had worked hard to get together a great line-up of speakers. They included:
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Keynote speaker, Sue Knight - renowned international consultant and author, who pioneered the use of NLP for people in business and who has been described as ‘bringing the heart and soul to business’.
- Sharon Connolly - Sharon is a widely known image consultant who has been on national television. She runs the Maximise Group, is founder of the Ladies Who Latte Networking group and partners with Mary Flavelle, entrepreneur and ‘networking queen‘ of Berkshire!
- Natalie Holliday - speaking about the goal, the challenge and the way to an outstanding sporting achievement - a valuable lesson for all women in business!
Each of these ladies had so much to give, it was both entertaining and inspirational to listen to them as they shared their own experiences with us.
There was a definite theme running through all of the presentations that evening. NLP and coaching in it’s various forms was high on the agenda, giving some great examples of how it might be used and the benefits it can bring. As a Master Practitioner of NLP, I was delighted to hear this, of course, and having Sue Knight have everyone doing some positive visualisation was a lovely way for her to give to the whole group.
Ute mentioned to us that each year they have had this event, it has doubled in size, so all I can say is that, Ute and Mary – you are going to need somewhere much bigger for 2009!
Congratulations to Success Network and all the speakers for such a great evening. As an evening intended to celebrate women’s progress and success in business and inspire us to achieve our full potential – you certainly succeeded!
