Public Speaking

What makes successful entrepreneurs tick? How do they get started? And what can we learn from them?

As the Enterprise Editor of The Sunday Times Rachel Bridge is just the person to provide the answers. Over the past few years she has interviewed hundreds of successful entrepreneurs for her popular weekly column, "How I Made It" in the business section of Sunday Times, which has also inspired two books.

In the process Rachel has gained a real insight into what goes on in the mind of the entrepreneur and has dozens of real life examples to share which reveal what early hurdles they faced when trying to make their dream come true and how they overcame them - and what factors were key to their success.

She is also well qualified to talk about small businesses and the challenges they face trying to become larger businesses.

Rachel Bridge graduated from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge in 1989 with an MA (Hons) Economics degree and has been a business journalist ever since. She joined The Sunday Times in 2003.

She says: "Entrepreneurs are immensely fascinating people - they have a raw energy and ambition that makes them very exciting to be around. I think that there is a lot we can learn from them."

Previous events include:

2003

The Business Enterprise Exchange conference, Manchester

2004

National Federation of Enterprise Agencies annual conference, Birmingham

Kettering BizNet conference, Kettering

2005

East of England Development Agency Destination Growth conference, Newmarket

MIDAS conference, Manchester

The Sunday Times Enterprise Week conference, London

University of Surrey UniSdirect breakfast seminar

Derbyshire Chamber of Commerce conference, Derby

2006

International Women's Day breakfast, Jersey

Women in Rural Enterprise annual conference, Newmarket

Enterprise Nation conference, Manchester         

B2B conference, London

B2B Women's Network breakfast, Coventry

B2B Northwest conference, Manchester

Feedback from previous speaking engagements:

"I wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH  for coming over as guest speaker for the event. It was fantastic to meet you and your talk was fascinating and so so inspiring - the feedback has been so wonderful and everyone left with beaming smiles on their faces asking what I had planned for next year!" Sarah Taylor, organizer of Jersey International Women's Day conference.

"Just a short note to say thank you for last week at the conference. The immediate feedback was that your session was amongst the very best and most useful of the two days." Kevin Horne, organizer of NFEA conference.

"I found your "Business growth through networking and marketing" speech on Friday inspiring, informative and thought provoking. Thank you." Jean Davidson, conference delegate, Kettering BizNet conference.

You can book Rachel for your event through Womenspeakers.co.uk.