About Us
Working Woman is a collaborative network of inspirational entrepreneurs supporting women all over the world interested in working, starting and running their own businesses.
Christina Lima Trindade, Serial Entrepreneur, Coach, Mentor, Business Advisor, Writer, Consultant and Speaker, is the founder of Working Woman UK, and co-founder of Entrepreneurs Ladder and has a passion for supporting women and Schools in business and enterprise. Her clients range from pre-start to 80m turnover. An inspirational role model, she has helped many businesses to start and grow.
Her approach is fast paced and hands on in developing the new generation of do it yourself entrepreneurs. She has a professional team of experts working alongside her with Working Woman. Christina has spent a considerable amount of time involved in ethically and environmentally-friendly businesses. She has also been elected to be the UK representative for the 1st International Souk Forum network of Women Investors.
Christina is a trained business advisor and is currently part of the delivery team at SENTA www.senta.co.uk for Sheffield City Councils’ Solutions for Business project. She has developed business and enterprise start up programmes for schools and women. She has also worked internationally raising awareness and essential funds for www.ccwltd.org www.malealea.org and will be developing the project Working Woman International throughout 2010/2011.Co-founder of the social enterprise Entrepreneurs Ladder www.entrepreneursladder.co.uk and the creator of the UK 1st Working Woman Expo in 2008 with 50 exhibitors, 350 visitors in the day and over 250 people attending the charity fashion show in the evening encouraging Sheffield’s young girls to their very own Challenge Gok special with a recycled twist on just a budget of £20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9SelYCAKeM
Passionate about business and enterprise for women and children in particular helping people out of frustration to build new skills to be able to be successful in starting their own business. Christina has an established network of contacts and draws on her own extensive experiences when speaking. Supported by Barclays bank for the last 2 years Christina and her network of 1000 women have organised and delivered a range of events and conferences aimed at up-skilling women professionally and personally, encouraging diversity and creative businesses to celebrate success. Christina believes that women are vital in building a strong economy and encouraging youngsters to also be entrepreneurial.
Our Plea: is that you be a champion for women in enterprise at every opportunity, and when you've climbed up the corporate ladder don't forget to leave the ladder down..We are shortly going for a completely new look to our website where you will be able to meet the rest of our team and follow us with essential articles on Business, Inspirational Role Models, Lifestyle, Fashion, Health and Beauty and access our resources.
"Working woman has some really inspirational stories plus useful contacts, networks and support for any woman, especially women already in business, thinking of starting up or needing general support. But there's so much more than this - it truly aims to be 'For everything in a woman's life'. Definite value for money. Highly recommended!" Valerie Dwyer - Serial Entrepreneur
"Bettina Yarde - Morgan Dias, can't recommend Working Woman highly enough. The support network and Entrepreneurs Ladder has given us assurance, help and assistance with all our needs."
