Women in Business - 3 November 2006

Rose Cleary-Southwood
Founder, GreenKnickers

Rose has a background in main-stream fashion merchandising and proves that a business mind need not be at odds with ethical values.  Greenknickers mission is to design and produce underwear which is ethical in design, manufacture and use.  To do this they are striving to create a business which impacts positively on the community, our suppliers, our customers and the planet. See www.greenknickers.org

GreenKnickers other founder Sarah studied Eco design at Goldsmiths College where she began to combine her ethical values with a passion for underwear and fashion. In researching and experimenting with women’s relationships to their undies she uncovered an exciting niche.  Together Sarah and Rose are passionate about underwear, ethics, design and business and the belief that all these values can occupy the same product.

Una Doyle
Founder, Confidence Gets Results Ltd

Úna Doyle runs Confidence Gets Results Ltd (www.ConfidenceGetsResults.com) where she helps people to promote themselves confidently and with personality.  Una has appeared as a confidence expert on local radio and local and national TV with a recent appearances on Sky TV’s ‘Experts on TV’ programme and Living TV’s ‘Extreme Makeover UK’, where she helps women who are going through surgery and more, to build their confidence from the inside.  

Una is an international award-winning speaker and thousands of people have benefited from her work through her newsletter, speaking engagements, workshops and one-to-one coaching.  

Audrey Mandela
Founder and Director, Multimap

Audrey currently serves as the company’s corporate counsel; HR director; and marketing director; she is also a board member and Company Secretary.

Audrey was formerly Senior Vice President, International, for the Yankee Group, one of the industry’s leading IT research firms.  As Senior VP, Ms. Mandela was responsible for managing all of the Yankee Group's research, consulting and sales activities in Europe, Latin America and Asia.  She was also a frequent speaker at telecom industry events around the world, and the author of numerous reports and studies on global telecom trends.  She continues to provide some consulting services for select clients in the telecom sector.

Audrey holds a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, US

Andrew Mallett
Director, Present Action

Andrew is a facilitator, coach and consultant specialising in presentation skills. He set up Present Action in 2001 following a career as a journalist and an actor. Since then he has built up an impressively diverse client list which includes Swiss Re, Shelter, Cushman & Wakefield, Deutsche Bank and Oxford University Press.

He’s committed to helping clients reach their potential as communicators and to have the inner confidence to remain themselves when doing business. He devotes half a day per week to volunteer work as a group psychotherapist and at the end of it all he takes out his aggression on the poker table. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in 2005.

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