Below are all the details of the speakers, special guests and the ladies responsible for organising the Conference.
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Councillor Sheila Stuart has been a member of the council since 2004, when she was first elected to represent Trumpington ward. Sheila has served on the Environment, Licensing and Planning Committees, as well as Standards Committee, and as a member of the Employment Appeals panels. She has also chaired the Public Art Steering Group. She served as Executive Councillor for Community Development and Health from 2006 to 2009. Her civic roles include her service as a Ceremonial Bailiff in 2006/07 and as Deputy Mayor in 2009/10. Originally from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Sheila’s first political involvement was at the University of Oregon where she served as a member of the Incidental Fee Committee (the budget-setting body for student fees) and later as Budget Director. Sheila later worked as an intern to a local Congresswoman in Eugene, Oregon, and then as paid committee staff in the 1985 Legislative Session to the House Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs in the Oregon House of Representatives. Sheila moved to Cambridge in 1991 from Portland, Oregon, and has worked as an accountant with the local independent firm Peters Elworthy and Moore since 2007, having previously worked as a financial administrator for Toby Churchill Limited, a local firm which manufactures electronic communication aids for the disabled. Sheila’s husband, Bruce, is a self-employed architect, and her daughter Lucy, 16, attends Long Road Sixth Form College. Bruce and Sheila enjoy travelling, hiking, gardening, and reading, as well as silversmithing when time permits. |
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Emma Wimhurst is a sought-after motivational business speaker, a successful entrepreneur and regular contributor to the UK media. She is author of highly-acclaimed BOOM! 7 disciplines to control, grow and add impact to your business (Diva Publishing Ltd). Emma became a self-made millionaire from the success of her biggest enterprise to date: Diva Cosmetics, which was founded after she spotted a gap in the market for colour cosmetics at the height of The Spice Girls fame in the last 90s. Following a 10-year career in-house at Revlon, Emma seized the opportunity to nurse her entrepreneurial itch and Diva Cosmetics was born. The business rapidly became the leading supplier of own-labelled colour cosmetics and gift sets to the majority of high street chains including New Look, Monsoon/Accessorize, River Island, BHS and George@Asda. Emma is an original Mumpreneur, starting Diva Cosmetics, from home with her first-born on her hip. The business rapidly grew to accommodate a fulltime team of 12 with offices in central Bournemouth. The business was sold in late 2003; a conscious decision by Emma to grow her family. Since the birth of her third child, Emma has become a sought-after Business speaker and Mentor and has worked with hundreds of business owners trouble-shooting and problem solving. Emma has a unique, highly-driven style who inspires, motivates and enables entrepreneurs to transform their businesses from “whisper to BOOM!” and is one of the UK’s most charismatic and entertaining business speakers. Emma was one of the featured Big Shot Entrepreneurs in a recent series of Beat the Boss for BBC Children’s TV; she has hosted her own radio shot and is a regular media contributor and columnist. She presents regularly for The Coaching Academy, Entrepreneurs’ Business Academy, Business |
 Roberta Jerram will be Chairing the Conference and running the Workshop 'Dare to Dream Bigger'Roberta is a mum of four, serial entrepreneur and founder of Giant Potential, the online community for women in business who dare to dream big.
In January 2009 she also launched Linen at Home, a new business opportunity for UK women offering a collection of useful and beautiful soft furnishings and linen products for home and business. The company won the HWWBA award in 2010 for Best New Business Venture sponsored by Natwest.
Roberta is passionate about her work-life fulfilment and loves sharing her passion with other daring women.
In this workshop she will help you turn your own name into a meaningful life-mission motto and inspire you to fulfill your own true purpose as both a Mum and a Business Owner. Roberta's own life-mission motto is Reach Out, Believe, Enthuse and Really Take Action.
Anyone who knows Roberta knows that she lives and breathes this every single day.
She can't wait to be involved in this new event and meet the Cambridge Business Mums!
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Darren Toms is a personal leadership expert, coach and motivational speaker. With over 16 years experience as a corporate coach and leadership trainer, Darren has an in-depth knowledge of what is needed to be both happy and successful in business and your personal life. He has trained and coached over 8,000 people in 3 continents and has a passion for showing how important it is to take 100% responsibility and ownership for yourself regardless of what is happening around or to you. Using a blend of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Philosophy and Coaching Darren works with his clients to ensure they make the right choices in their life. Not just what they do but also how they feel about what they do. His flagship coaching programme is called ‘The Choice’ and is based around Five Philosophies to bring Awareness, Knowledge and Application to what you can achieve in your life. He works with clients in a variety of areas including personal leadership, management and leadership, business coaching and successful parenting. Darren has podcasts and video blogs available from his website, www.darrentoms.com. He is currently making a film based on ‘The Choice’ which is designed as a self help coaching programme using examples from local businesses and other coaches based in Dorset where he lives. He lives in Poole, with his wife, 3 children and his slightly mad German Shepherd dog. |
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Jo co-owns Emerald Frog Marketing, a marketing consultancy of two mumpreneurs who plan, manage and deliver creative marketing campaigns to boost businesses. With 17 years of marketing management behind them, Emerald Frog Marketing was established shortly after both partners had babies and decided to strike out and go solo. Many of the hints and tips in this seminar are drawn from experience – by keeping overheads low they had broken even in less that six weeks and now have clients from large construction companies and local authorities through to one-woman cake businesses and beauticians.
Being passionate about all things green (hence the name) they try to make their marketing solutions as environmentally friendly as possible – by recommending greener alternatives and reducing waste in marketing communications. Not only does this help improve businesses' carbon footprints but it also keeps down marketing costs for their customers too.
Jo lives near Cambridge with a husband who is four years older and eight inches shorter than her, has a small mischievous baby called Millie and a dog called Amber who Jo has trained to play dead when she "shoots" her. |
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Online marketing go-to-girl Alison Rothwell will be running a conference session to take participants from zero to blog. That's right. At the end of her info-packed hour you'll be able to leave the Conference and be able to set up your own blog quickly and painlessly. She'll share the shortcuts she's learnt with you so you can be up and running with your own blog which Google will love, thanks to Alison's secret tips and strategies! A bit about Alison. She runs the SEO Training Club, which is an online community for small business owners to learn about online marketing, and also has her own SEO Company, Tribal Mash, which provides SEO servicdes for small businesses. Aside from running the popular blog Self Employed Mum, with Natalie Lue, she's also Geek in Residence over at the fabulous business networking site, Mums Club. When not in cyberspace she's cooking Nigel Slater recipes, relaxing with a Lush bath bomb and growing her own veg. She lives in a village in Lancashire with her non-geek husband, daughters and Jedi, her working cocker spaniel. |
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"Suzanne Dibble is a highly experienced, award winning business lawyer with over 12 years experience, working at DLA Piper (the world's largest law firm), Virgin and ITV plc. Having been a board director of a company with a £100m+ turnover, Suzanne also has a huge amount of general business experience. Suzanne set up lawyers4mumpreneurs in 2009 to focus on mumpreneurs' needs in setting up and growing their businesses and is now a household name in the mumpreneur community as the trusted first port of call for affordable, friendly, jargon-free business law advice." |
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Amy Taylor BSc (Hons), ACA, is a chartered accountant who qualified with first time exam passes in 1998. She set up her own practice in 2008 and provides dedicated tax planning and accounting advice to Mums in Business across the UK. Amy offers book-keeping, accounts, tax, self-assessment, payroll and VAT services, as well as specific tax advice to help her clients save tax through legitimate planning opportunities. Her previous work experience includes auditing and forensic accounting for Big 4 accountant, Deloitte, as well as internal audit and analysis roles for FTSE 350 media company, United Business Media. Amy loves working with Mums in Business, she is Resident Finance Expert for Mum’s the Boss and provides regular tax tips to her clients and followers on Twitter. |
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Vickie is married with 4 children and runs her own home based business, making and selling jams, chutneys and preserves. Based in Flitwick, Beds she sells her produce at Farmers markets and to other businesses to sell on, some of which include Flitwick Manor, Woburn Abbey, Halselys Deli Hitchin and Woodside Farm. As a member of the Tastes of Bedfordshire steering group she has her finger on the pulse of the small food businesses in the area. Believing in a return to seasonal eating and cooking, and trying to live the Good Life! with chickens in the garden and her 8 and 10 year old children growing vegetables in the garden that they sell back to Vickie to make products from! Listen to her talk about coping with life changing experiences and how she started a jam making business. |
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JUDY REITH – Parent Coach, author, trainer and broadcaster, Apprentice Mum of 3 ( aged 19, 16, 11) When I became a mum in 1991, I thought being a parent would be the most natural job in the world. It was much tougher than I imagined. The hardest years were when my two children were about 3 and 5 – they were arguing with each other and with their parents. I read books and watched parenting programmes and talked with other mothers, but the real transformation came after attending a parenting course. I decided to train to run them myself to give as many parents as possible the opportunity to make their family life better, just as mine had been – not perfect, but ten times better. I have been working in parenting education since 1998 running courses in London and Cambridge having originally trained with Parent Network (now part of Parentline Plus) I am also an accredited Life Coach with Distinction from The Coaching Academy, to meet the demand for helping parents individually or as a couple. I now have three children and being a Mum remains the most challenging and rewarding part of my life, and I fully understand the pressures on us as parents. I love working with parents and seeing them flourish as they achieve their parenting goals. I follow a professional code of Ethics, How do I work? Most of my clients are parents who see me individually, in person or by phone for coaching sessions – usually in blocks of six sessions. About 30% of my ciients are working on life coaching (e.g. confidence, career, relationship issues) I completely understand the needs of working Mums – what I do is work non stop in term time, and less during school holidays. Courses and Workshops: I facilitate the following Parenting courses: Parenting Matters, Being A Parent, Sibling Rivalry, Living With Teenagers Workshops – usually one off – two hours on a range of parenting topics, such as Stop Juggling – Start Living, Credit Crunch Parenting or You’re A Star! – (boosting self esteem) I run these for private groups of parents, or in companies dedicated to supporting their working parents. I also speak to women’s groups about the nature of my work and how I run my business, Parenting People I am a Consultant for the Parenting Education and Support Forum. Radio I am a regular guest on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, and Suffolk, LBC London, and I have been interviewed by local and National print, radio and television journalists about parenting Writing Teach Yourself Motherhood (Hodders 2008) Teach Yourself Be A Great Mum ( Hodder 2010) I also write columns for magazines and newsletters Freebies I give a portion of my time each year to run workshops for charities working with parents, and I provide up to an hour a fortnight of free coaching time to parents who are on Income Support. My Passions I love working with parents watching them grow into confident happy parents. For me, it’s the best job in the world! Recently I helped set up the inaugaral Street Child World Cup in South Africa, enabling street children from 8 countries to have their own football tournament and to highlight the forgotten rights of street children – the most vulnerable community in the world Contact: Judy Reith (+ 44 )1223 328 307 m. 07798 602 385 Website; www.parentingpeople.co.uk E mail: judy@parentingpeople.co.uk Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/parentingpeople |
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Alison is a married mum of 4 whose children are aged between 6 and 19. She currently works full-time as a childminder and runs Teeny Munchkins and the Cambridge edition of the Business Mums Journal Before becoming a childminder, she worked as an Assistant Manager at a Community Centre in Cambridge and networked with many members of the public and council workers. Alison worked there for around 12 years, starting life as a cleaner and creche worker. Being a part of Mums Club has given Alison the focus needed to push Teeny Munchkins (my main online business) further forward. There is lots of support and handy hints and tips both on the forum and the website itself. I hope that by setting up a networking group of mums in Cambridge, we can empower each other to share our skills and strive even further forward with our businesses. I am also very keen to get other mums into business and help them to recognise their own talents. |
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Helen is a married mum of 2, both under 4 (just). She works as an Executive Consultant for Linen At Home – www.linenathome.co.uk/helen which is going very well with a rapidly growing team. Prior to family life Helen was a Marketing Manager for an automotive company just outside Cambridge and prior to that an Events Manager for Emap Publishing. As an MS sufferer and a mum and now seen as a Mumpreneur, Helen is keen to empower other mums too and to show that if she can do it, so can they!! Come and join us and see how we can help you in business ventures.
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