As the UK enters into a sustained period of uncertainty in the post-lockdown world, it has never been more important to build personal and operational business resilience, particularly when pitching for funding.
At this event, we will draw on the expertise of established Female Founders and expert speakers to provide practical advice on building personal and operational resilience when pitching for growth during a period of heightened uncertainty.
You will hear from an esteemed panel, including an eminent high-growth Female Founder, an Expert Speaker and Juliet Rogan, Head of the High Growth & Entrepreneurs team at Barclays.
Anna Sofat is a multi-award winning financial planner and has been advising enterprising women and their families for nearly twenty years. She is highly regarded as ‘the Voice of Women’s Wealth’ and is the founder of the ‘Are You In?’ movement, which seeks to transform the financial sector towards diversity, inclusivity and greater democracy.
Anna joined Progeny in November 2019, having previously founded Addidi Wealth, a financial services boutique for women. Addidi won Money Marketing’s Small Advisor of the Year award and featured as one of the Top 100 Advisory firms by New Model Adviser for several consecutive years. As well as advising private clients, she is a regular contributor to national press and TV. She has been awarded Unbiased.co.uk’s Financial Adviser of the year award; nominated the Top Female Adviser by FT’s Financial Adviser in 2015, and was a finalist in the First Women 2017 Awards for the Finance category.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff founded Ness Labs, a platform offering neuroscience-based content and coaching to thousands of entrepreneurs and knowledge workers. Ness Labs provides workshops, events, books, and online discussions around the topics of mental health in entrepreneurship, mindful productivity, remote work, and the neuroscience of leadership.
Starting her career at Google, first in London then in San Francisco, Anne-Laure led Global Marketing for Google Fit, securing partnerships and launching campaigns to encourage people to move more, sleep better, and improve their diet. Her work at Google brought her to collaborate with policy makers, startups, and influencers across the health technology sector.
The Female Founders Forum was set up by The Entrepreneurs Network and Barclays, to encourage, support, and promote female entrepreneurship. We seek to connect some of the UK’s most inspirational female entrepreneurs with those on the cusp of rapid growth.
