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Dine with Chiconmise
Michelle Dewberry – Wednesday March 24th 2010
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For more information: Kitchen Dinner Number 8, Wednesday March 24th
Keynote Details
After leaving school in Hull aged 16 with no qualifications, Michelle Dewberry started her career with a modern apprenticeship in business. Alongside this, she studied IT in her spare time and quickly moved up the corporate ladder. Aged just 22, Michelle was head-hunted by a major Internet Service Provider to manage one of their biggest international projects. Following the successful delivery of this project, Dewberry established herself as a self employed consultant, managing multi-million pound projects spanning across Europe and Asia. She was just 23 years old.
Aged 24, Michelle seized the opportunity to apply for the second series of BBC’s The Apprentice and beat over 15,000 people to become the first female and youngest winner of the show.
After a year working closely alongside the ‘notoriously belligerent’ Sir Alan Sugar, her entrepreneurial instincts were awakened and she left to establish her own successful ventures: Michelle Dewberry Limited (MDL), a consultancy that helps transform and troubleshoot companies and Chiconomise.com, the money saving site for women, launched in the height of the recession. With MDL, Michelle has worked with some of the UK’s largest firms including The Royal Mail, The Chamber of Commerce and The Mayor’s Office. Many companies are now queuing up to benefit from her consultancy skills thanks to a stream of glowing testimonials. The Financial Times recently told the story of an adventure holiday company that had reported their best day’s trading in five years following Dewberry’s intervention.
Dewberry has a passion for inspiring others and runs countless workshops aimed at helping people define and achieve their goals. Her autobiography, ‘Anything is Possible’ charts her rise from a council estate in Hull through to the business success she enjoys today. She also runs workshops for organisations wishing to motivate their staff and has delivered countless seminars for high profile businesses.
Since overcoming adversity in her childhood, Dewberry feels strongly that “life is for living” and has a desire to continually challenge herself both physically and mentally. A twice London Marathon runner, competitor in the ‘Microsoft Challenge’ corporate adventure race and recently crowned the winner of a global recession shopping challenge, Dewberry thrives on pushing herself to the limit and enjoying herself while doing so.
Dewberry has strong opinions on current business and economic matters and consequently is frequently asked to comment on matters in a variety of national media outlets. She fears for young people in the current economic climate and feels passionate about helping to avoid a potential ‘lost generation’.
As a recent judge on Bebo Big Think Campaign, Dewberry helped mentor the 3 lucky young finalists chosen to present their ideas to the Cabinet Office, prior to their presentations. This was the first time that any such project has taken place at Number 10 Downing Street. Since the presentations Dewberry has been asked by Tessa Jowell to take a more permanent role in moving these three projects forward, and has also been asked to chair a business podcast in January in collaboration with the Cabinet Office.
In her personal campaign to assist members of society that are swiftly being dubbed ‘the lost generation,’ Dewberry has designed, developed and delivered a programme entitled “Self Employment = Self Empowerment”, for the government scheme ‘Make Your Mark’. This programme was aimed at 14-15 year old school pupils as an alternative careers advice session focusing on looking at self employment as a viable career option and worked on barriers, confidence, risk and practicalities. This was a pilot scheme that Dewberry personally delivered to eight schools across the UK. Early indications have shown that the campaign has proven to be a huge success, and hopes are that the government will be encouraged to roll this out nationwide.
To add to the list of ventures and programmes Dewberry is currently working on, she is now the new resident columnist for the biggest monthly business magazine, Business Matters, where fellow columnists include Duncan Bannatyne.
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Upcoming Dinners
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- Kitchen Dinner Number 9: Wednesday May 5th
- Kitchen Dinner Number 10: Wednesday June 16th
- Kitchen Dinner Number 11: Wednesday July 24th
- Kitchen Dinner Number 12: Wednesday September 15th
- Kitchen Dinner Number 13: Wednesday October 20th
- Kitchen Dinner Number 14: Women’s Enterprise Day during GEW 15th-22nd November
- Kitchen Dinner Number 15: Wednesday December 15th
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The Philisophy
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Here at The Next Women we are often asked to facilitate meetings amongst female business heroes and to connect business leaders. After all, with every business and every woman comes a different story and a different experience.
This got us thinking..
Fine wine, good food, an inspirational lady, a group of connected
women and men, and finally that light bulb moment:
A series of ‘Kitchen Table Dinners’
A five course meal in the intimate settings of our very own kitchen in Notting Hill, great food, and women with original companies and ideas.
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Previous Dinners
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Kitchen Dinner Number 1: Dine with Accel (Sold out)
Kitchen Dinner Number 2: May 6th Dine with Google, (Sold out)
Kitchen Dinner Number 3: June 30th Dine with Yelp (Sold out)
Kitchen Dinner Number 4: July 27th Summer Kitchen Dinner (Sold out)
Kitchen Dinner Number 5: November 18th The BIG Kitchen Dinner (Sold out)
Kitchen Dinner (Number 6): December 16 Dine with Facebook (Sold out)
Kitchen Dinner Number 7: February 24th Dine with the Exit Entrepreneur (Sold out)
Details of Dine with Facebook:
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The NextWomen Kitchen Dinners are not about looking up to people like in a mentor/mentee relationship, rather they are about peer-to-peer meetings among entrepreneurs, CEOs and investors alike, with fine wine, good food and a chance to dress up
For more details of the event and previous dinners visit our Kitchen Dinner Series page, and check out our photostream for a little taster of the experience.
Last Keynote Speaker: Tracy Yaverbaun, Head of European Sales, Facebook EMEA
Tracy Yaverbaun
Tracy Yaverbaun joined Facebook in January 2008 and heads up the pan-European and international sales team for Facebook EMEA. Her team’s role is to help major advertisers and brands with their global digital marketing strategies, ensuring that brands connect and engage with users on Facebook in a meaningful way that rewards both the user and the brand. Providing scalable and efficient media solutions that translate and globally and allow for local implementation. Tracy and her team have played a key role in a number of major Facebook advertiser campaigns such as the Adidas global partnership, Sony Ericssons Alpha partnership with Facebook, 20th Century Fox’s first international engagement campaign and iTunes Europe’s live festival on Facebook.
Tracy joined Facebook as a Client Solutions Manager for UK before transitioning into an international role in late 2008. She started the pan-European team in January 2009. Prior to Facebook, Tracy worked for AOL Time Warner for three years as a Client Services Manager on the Entertainment and CPG categories, before moving into a commercial development role monetizing AOL products and services for brands and advertisers.
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Details of The BIG Kitchen Dinner, November 18, 2009
On Wednesday 18th November 2009 – Womens Enterprise Day – we held a BIG Kitchen Dinner to celebrate. With our tried and tested format, we will be adding more spaces at the table and a chance to listen to Stephanie Phair, Director of The OutNet talk.
Stephanie Phair
Stephanie Phair
Stephanie Phair was appointed Director of theOutnet.com, a division of NET-A-PORTER Limited, in February 2009. Stephanie is responsible for running theOutnet.com which involves cultivating brand relationships, leading strategic direction and managing the website.
Prior to joining theOutnet.com, Stephanie’s career in the luxury goods industry spanned brand management, marketing and merchandising. As VP, Merchandising at Portero, she spent three year’s building the auction-based website’s product acquisition and merchandising team, having previously worked at American Vogue magazine’s editorial Public Relations and Marketing group as well as Issey Miyake USA. Stephanie has travelled extensively throughout the world and speaks four languages fluently. She has served on the Parsons School of Design selection committee for designer of the year and has lectured to students on the connection between Architecture and Fashion Design. Stephanie holds a BA Hons from Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
TheOutnet.com is considered by some the world’s most fashionable fashion outlet. Launched in April 2009 by the people who brought you NET-A-PORTER.COM, theOutnet offers women worldwide unparalleled choice and discounts on previous season’s luxury fashion from over 200 brands. It’s chic-onomics!
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