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Exemplar Enterprising Champion
8 June 2010
Nottingham
Business Champion Sharon Roberts, has been successfully appointed as the East Midlands Enterprise Champion, one of nine regional Champions appointed by respective RDA’s. The East Midlands Development Agency (emda) were tasked with overseeing the recruitment process for this voluntary post and found Sharon, who runs her own company, Vision Development Consultants, to be the perfect candidate to provide them with advice and offer guidance to Ministers from Business Innovation and Skills (BIS). The role will involve looking at ways to raise the profile of women’s enterprise regionally and nationally. A key element of the project is to promote enterprise to women from low income families.
Laura-Jane Ranby, Business Support Diversity Manager, emda comments, “Sharon has been heavily involved with the Women’s Ambassadors Network, international trade development and a number of events encouraging women to look at enterprise. She is an inspirational woman on all levels.”
Sharon is an executive management & performance specialist, facilitator, author and motivational speaker. She is an unconventional, dynamic business woman and a self made entrepreneur. She now owns and runs two companies which have traded in 5 countries. She continues to work in Los Angeles alongside some of the top U.S Entrepreneurs and her new book 'Formula for Success' was nominated for the East Midlands Women of Worth Awards in 2007. Her company Vision Development are specialists in leadership training.
Sharon will now be the regional voice of women’s enterprise and a champion for the agenda on all stages.