International Women’s Day conference 2013 – Speaker’s profile: Penny Power

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Published on Wednesday, 06 March 2013 13:00

Last Updated on 06 March 2013

Monica Costa

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We look forward to Penny Power’s speech at our International Women’s Day conference 2013 on 8 March at City Hall supported by the Mayor of London.

Here we present PENNY POWER‘s full profile.

In her presentation “The power of peer-to-peer mentoring”, PENNY POWER, one of the UK’s most inspirational female entrepreneurs, will showcase the importance of peer-to-peer mentoring.

Penny is the Founder and CEO of Penny Power Limited, a Group of companies dedicated to the Social Digital world.

In 1998, Penny founded online networking community Ecademy to serve the growing needs of entrepreneurs. Today, the website now offers a voice to over 620,000 SME’s in 200 countries.

In 2011, Penny’s ‘Manifesto for Digital Business Britain’ pledged that she would seek a solution to the barriers held within businesses toward the effective execution and exploitation of Social Media. The solutions included Frontier Coaching, a Digital Coaching company for Business Executives and Digital Youth Academy (DYA), which introduces innovative Born Digital Youths to inspiring businesses.

Penny sits on a number of advisory boards including BIS, Surrey Connects, NACUE, The Gazelle Group and works globally with the UK Trade & Investment to promote UK excellence internationally.