This week sees the return of Enterprise Nation’s Festival of Female Entrepreneurs hosted in association with 

The event takes place on Tuesday 25 October 2022 at Meta’s Dublin offices. Attendees will be treated to a day full of inspiring stories and informative panel discussions. 

Ukraine’s Yevheniia Lukash will share her entrepreneurship story. Yevheniia had her own fashion business in Ukraine, employing 86 people, when war broke out. She now helps female founders start their own business and gain economic empowerment. 

Panel discussions include building your profile in the digital era, with Ireland’s leading multi-media professionals, and building a sustainable small business with some of Enterprise Nation’s sustainable business members. 

HBAN’s Niamh Sterling will host a panel on how, when and why to raise money, including expert views from Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, AIB, Awaken Hub and Accountant Online. 

Emma Kennedy will share her start-up story of Grafter - her modern office space concept. 

Female leadership will be discussed in a panel on managing high growth businesses in uncertain times - with Martina McDonnell of Meta, Sonya Geelon of Mastercard, Aideen Cardiff of Microsoft and Aine Rogers of Cisco.

Enterprise Nation members take centre stage in the 'building a sustainable small business' panel discussion and the day rounds off with a 'creative' fireside chat with film producer Zoe Rocha, moderated by Enterprise Nation’s own Emma Jones. 

The event is sponsored by Sage, GS1 Ireland and AIB.

Good luck to everyone attending the event. Have a great day!

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An internationally accredited coach (EQA Awarded, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council), a professional trainer (DDS, MBA, PhD, DSci), and TEDX Organizer and Professional Speaker.

Dr. Cinar pioneers in the field of leadership coaching, underpinned by growth mindset to have a profound impact on the way the world does business for positive transformation of lives through unlocking and maximizing full potential of professionals.

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Dr. Cinar is the winner of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council International Coaching Award (2016), 100 Best Global Coaching Leaders Award, 50 Outstanding Women in Healthcare Management–2016 for her international “resilient self-leadership coaching” project.
Dr. Cinar is an accredited Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centred Coach for Effective Leadership Development, and 360 Feedback Assessment. Most recently, she has become a Mental Fitness Coach for Business through a globally success-proven training programme that has been shown to increase, for example, Self-Confidence (83%), Stress and Conflict Management Skills (91% vs. 84%), Leadership skills (30%), Employee engagement and Satisfaction (33%).

Dr. Cinar currently coaches at Aspiring Women Project in collaboration with Women Business Station to Boost Self-Confidence and Resilience Skills of female entrepreneurs. She has been also selected as a Women Enterprise Scotland Ambassador (2022) to Empower Resilient and Confident Women Leadership. 

Dr Cinar coaches one-one and in teams along with coaching training and supervisions for professionals since 2010 through collaboration with diverse international/national stakeholders and business partners.

Dr. Cinar provides coaching services to social enterprises such as Know You More and Mindberry that she coaches NHS female professionals and female managers in business for self-confidence, stress-management, resilient leadership, time and priority management. She has coached UK Young Female Leaders (UK 101 Leadership development Program, Level Up).

Dr. Cinar works as a consultant coach at the University of Dundee to design, deliver, and assess international coaching trainings with a specific focus on resilient and confident leadership development to international stakeholders. For example, she designed, delivered, and assessed a 96- hours coaching program where she coached the participants for confident self-leadership development and initiated the international accreditation of the training.

Dr. Cinar has become a TEDX organizer and speaker for Resilient Female Leadership for Sustainable Development.

Dr Cinar has been designing and delivering innovative bespoke training and workshops to business (e.g., Munich Re, Loreal-UNESCO Women in Science, UN Global Week, Fife Business Week, European Mentoring and Coaching Covid-19 series; the Fire Starter Festival, organized by the Government) about certain topics (e.g., Confident Resilient Leadership, Leading with EI, Future skills in the VUCA World, Responsible Leadership &amp; Sustainability, Employee Engagement and Mental Wellbeing).

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As Enterprise Nation&apos;s Head of community I ensure that you&apos;re all getting the most from your membership.
For budding entrepreneurs, that means identifying the challenges that you&apos;re facing, and then matching you with the support - and the people - to start and grow a great business.
If you&apos;re an adviser on Enterprise Nation, I&apos;ll teach you how best to promote your services, and offer opportunities for you to showcase your expertise.
And if you&apos;re a provider of small business support, I&apos;ll make sure that the right businesses are matched with your programmes.
It&apos;s my role to make Enterprise Nation a safe, supportive and inclusive community.

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