Personal and professional development stopped for me when I graduated university and started on my career path.  Gencia started trading in 2002 and I was conscious that I should attend some kind of skills training.   I attended a few seminars on time management, how to network and how to build a team like most other people starting in business - some with the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and a few others with Business Link.  Although I found the sessions to be ok, I was not inspired.  They lacked substance.  The information was general and it was not going to make me a better time keeper, networker or boss.

I made a conscious effort after that to avoid seminars and business development seminars until I met Yvonne Halling, co-founder of the Well Heeled Divas.  Yvonne Halling and Jane Kenyon founded the Well Heeled Divas a year ago and their passion is to inspire women to entrepreneurship.   I did not know at the time what opportunity Yvonne was offering when we met but a voice in my head was telling me that I should go to their seminar and keep an open mind.

I went to a Diva kick start 10 months ago – November 2007.  I still remember the goosebumps it gave me at the time listening to Jane’s story.  I walked out of that seminar inspired and I knew what I needed to do.  It was like a light bulb had been switched on in my head. [More]