Meet The Female Founders of the Fab Collab
We are a rainbow of collaborators, each with stories about the potency of collaborating.
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Tracey Barr
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Elena Brennan
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Bina Briggs
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Vicky Burt
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Henriette Danel
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Falguni Desai
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Debbie Gilbert
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Mary Gregory
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Enfys Maloney
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Andrea L Richards
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Bonny Snowdon
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Jade Thomas
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Lorraine Thomas
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Lisa Webb
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Hela Wozniak-Kay
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Mindy Gibbins-Klein
Tracey Barr
A highly regarded independent strategy consultant specialising in healthcare.
She combines 35 years’ experience with analytical, consulting and relationship management skills to help her clients develop, grow, improve and successfully exit their businesses.
“Tracey really is one of the best health care consultants out there. Her analytical, people skills and rigour are first class. She is highly versatile and can bring around the most difficult stakeholders.” Jacob West, Managing Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Microsoft UK
In 2020 she was selected as an f:entrepreneur #ialso100, a campaign showcasing inspiring female business leaders as role models for small business owners.
She loves to share her knowledge and insights on LinkedIn so do reach and connect.
Elena Brennan
Shoe designer, Founder & CEO of award-winning BUS STOP Boutique Inc. established in 2007 headquartered in Philadelphia. Best International Business Woman 2021.
Her limited-edition shoe brand BUS STOP X launched in 2015, sold exclusively online and in-store. She has led the company from a small boutique to a internationally recognised establishment. Background in marketing and advertising, Elena is highly active in the Philadelphia region's economic development community, serving on the boards of organisations to include AlGA, SSHD Business Improvement District, and an Advisory Committee Member of The Philadelphia Fashion Incubator, and Support Philly Fashion, initiatives funded by City Council.
Born and raised in London, England, Elena was educated at The University of London. Elena resides in Philadelphia, USA.
Bus Stop Boutique
Bina Briggs
A successful award winning established female entrepreneur, an expert in HR.
After a long corporate career, Bina has been delivering her plain talking outsourced service to her clients. Her clients love her pragmatic approach.
Bina is a volunteer for many charities and organisations, especially those supporting women’s issues.
A published author of best-selling book The Red Thread, Bina arrived in this country as a refugee from Uganda in 1972. Her book shares an invaluable message of love, kindness, support, of life lessons, collaboration, strength, determination, resilience, tenderness, gratitude, humour, failures, friendships and successes experienced mainly by women.
Bina is very proud to be a member of Sister Snog.
Plain Talking HR
Vicky Burt
Vicky founded her company, Gilpin House Associates, in 2018.
She has two businesses, a pop-up restaurant that she runs from her home with her husband, Peter, and a private tutoring company.
During the pandemic, the tutoring business had to pivot and become online, as a result, Vicky was able to hire more tutors, she now has a team of thirty-six tutors and it is still growing.
In 2020 she was recognised as one of the F:entrepreneur’s #ialso 100. This is a campaign that highlights inspiring female business leaders across the UK. This community showcases role models to support and inspire all small businesses.
Additions Tutoring
Gilpin House Supper Club
Henriette Danel
A multi-award winning Business Coach working with female entrepreneurs & business owners in the service-based industry, to help them attract more clients continuously.
She's also the host of The Entrepreneurial Success Podcast and a Public Speaker.
Her speciality lies in her unique ability to take anything complicated, dissect it and put it back together in such a way that's easy to understand and implement. And because of this, her clients gain clarity and receive amazing results in the shortest amount of time.
Henriette believes that running a business should be fun, encouraging and led with integrity. This requires your commitment and clarity. Once you're focused, signing up continuous clients becomes natural and organic.
Falguni Desai
An experienced Business Growth Coach with 20 years of legal experience with a rich and colourful client base.
She is committed to helping business owners realise what they set out to do by improving cash flow and profit, spending their time where they add the most value, leveraging the capability of their teams and building a resilient business.
She is an open and enthusiastic coach full of passion for what she does. Working with integrity and empathy, she believes that business, like life, should be fun and fulfilling.
Falguni is committed to learning and sharing her knowledge and experience with those around her to help them grow and transform.
Debbie Gilbert
A multi-award-winning entrepreneur and owner of Viva Business Support, a marketing and events agency.
She is also the founder of The Best Businesswomen Awards and Businesswomen UnLtd. Her book The Successful Mumpreneur, which shares her knowledge on growing a business around a family, has been a global success.
Over the past twenty years, Debbie has built a reputation for being a queen of collaboration and an excellent supporter of small businesses and start-ups. Growing a solid network has been her priority, and integral to her business success. Her motto is, ‘When you reach the top of your mountain, throw down a rope and help someone else up.’
Mary Gregory
A leadership consultant, coach and author of the best selling book Ego – Get Over Yourself and Lead.
She works with leaders up for making a big difference in the world, helping them navigate change and adversity, strengthen confidence and resilience, creating a career or business they love.
Mary works both individually and with groups and teams. She empowers her clients to access personal resources through insightful tools and models, so they can confidently take positive action.
Her work is grounded in psychology from her experience as a therapist in child psychiatry and leading change across companies including Ralph Lauren and Tesco. A qualified coach and supervisor, she has completed an MSc in Change.
Enfys Maloney
Enfys helps business owners to achieve more in less time and ultimately to enjoy more sales, more profit, more fulfilment, more confidence and more reward from their businesses.
Sales Training with Enfys helps women galvanise their earnings and bring in consistent, reliable revenue.
Enfys has supported hundreds of women with their sales. Her collaborative sales strategy is not only a cornerstone of her own success but also of the success of her many clients. The Elevate Circle is Enfys’ high-level business development mastermind, which enables ambitious businesswomen to generate high-revenue months, every month. Join Enfys’ vibrant sales training group, The Business Lounge, for free on Facebook or connect with her on LinkedIn today.
Sales Training With Enfys
Andrea L Richards
A multi-award-winning accountant, financial expert, and a trailblazer in the world of business.
Andrea is constantly challenging stereotypes every day in business and is an inspiration to businessowners - particularly those who may feel as though they do not fit in or belong. As a younger, black woman running an accountancy firm in a male-dominated industry, she has faced many hardships in the form of judgement and facetiousness, but she has never let that stop her and strives every day to defy expectations and prove why she is a boss in the financial industry.
Andrea’s is now in a position to utilise her knowledge and experience to inspire and inform diverse audiences about what it takes to build a successful and sustainable business.
Bonny Snowdon
Yorkshire born and bred, Bonny works from her studio at home in a village with views over the Moors and the White Horse of Kilburn.
Single mum to three relatively grown-up children, three large dogs, one tiny dog and a long-suffering cat, Bonny has built her business around her core values of faith (knowing it will all be ok), community and kindness.
Having worked in corporate for nearly two decades, Bonny took up drawing in 2016, and very quickly made her mark as a realism artist, artists’ mentor and coach and now runs a thriving business teaching people all over the world how to draw with coloured pencils.
Jade Thomas
The founder of two design businesses – one creates brands, the other designs jewellery.
Both tell stories.
She finds the discovery fascinating: finding clients’ values, ideal customers, and what makes them stand out. This leads to beautiful branding and websites that attract the right people and lasting business relationships. Brands that stand tall.
Similarly, with her gemstones – clarity is key. This refers to their quality and journey. Jade can tell you the date when most of them came out of the ground and show what they looked like before being cut and polished. They transform into stunning, unique pieces of precious jewellery.
Her clients love her work because it is unique and always matches their personalities.
Eau Rouge Design
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Jade Thomas Jewellery
Lorraine Thomas
An award-winning property developer, mentor and socially conscious landlord. An outspoken advocate who believes in property with purpose and people before profit.
A giant thinking, risk-taking visionary who’s shaking up the sector and becoming a sought-after voice.
In 2016 Lorraine took a leap from her career in business development for the legal sector, when she landed a role procuring rental properties for disadvantaged young adults. A defining moment which led to her now buying and developing properties ground up in this sector and renting to high-risk and vulnerable tenants.
Today Lorraine mentors other budding developers and is on a mission to create a new breed of socially conscious landlord who combines commercial savviness with a social conscience.
View From My Window
Lisa Webb
Lisa is a designer who's passionate about helping women aged 40, 50 and beyond with their branding - so that they attract the right clients to their business.
After working in several design agencies throughout her twenties, when the opportunity presented itself she started Pinkfrog Design in 2000 and never looked back. Pinkfrog is a boutique agency based in sunny South London which has seen numerous highs and lows, it’s been far from plain sailing but each wave has made the company more resilient.
Her clients range from solopreneurs to companies listed on the stock exchange. She is fascinated by people’s stories, how luck or love or adversity bought them to this moment and where they can go from there – being part of their business journey is simply a pleasure.
She’s also a lover of football, rainbows and she’s very partial to a cuppa.
Pink Frog
Hela Wozniak-Kay
The Connectress, a charismatic catalyst who connects remarkable businesswomen brimming with entrepreneurial spirit.
She’s also the soul of a power brand led by women for women: Sister Snog. It is an ecosystem where like-minded go-getters support each other so they can continue to thrive, boost their bottom line, supercharge their business and invigorate their brand, one sparkling connection at a time.
Hela is in daily contact with a cross section of businesswomen so she understands the challenges small business owners face and conquer on a daily basis. In Hela’s world, connections are today’s golden currency. That’s why she believes everyone should find their tribe and join it.
Join a tribe of giant thinkers ready to catapult their businesses to new levels by harnessing the power of a club or collective that’s full of community spirit with a tribal culture. Thank you to all the Sisters, Big Sisters and Really Big Sisters who took a leap of faith to be part of Fab Collab. And Mindy for being the catalyst and book midwife who made sure we collaborated to create a symphony of Sisterliness.
