Here at the Australian Businesswomen’s Network we’re all about helping women in business and inspiring them to achieve their full potential. Which is why we launched the Businesswomen’s Hall of Fame in 1998, to acknowledge and celebrate the success of Australia’s leading female entrepreneurs.
Over the past 17 years, we’ve honoured over 180 Hall of Fame inductees, each of whom has achieved outstanding success in their chosen area, whether it be as a leader of industry, a small business owner or a community champion.
This year was no different, with 18 amazing inductees honoured for their incredible success in creating successful and sustainable businesses they love.
“During our research, we found that all our inductees in this year’s Hall of Fame possess a common habit, the Confidence Habit, which helped each of them overcome their individual barriers to success.”
How did the Confidence Habit help our inductees create businesses they love?
Cultivating the Confidence Habit helped Kate Morris, CEO of Adore Beauty turn her passion into a career, by pushing herself outside her comfort zone and overcoming her fear of action. In the process, Kate grew her business from an online beauty boutique stocking two brands and making one sale a week, to a site which now attracts millions of visitors and offers over 8,000 products.
Cultivating the Confidence Habit helped Louise Olsen, the owner of Dinosaur Designs, develop her philosophy that the biggest risk in business is, in fact, not to take risks, which led to her opening 7 stores in Australia and expand internationally to open a store in New York.
And cultivating the Confidence Habit helped Penny Spencer start her successful network of travel agencies from scratch in 1998, to form what is now the award-winning, multi-million dollar Spencer Group of Companies.
You can learn more about this important habit and how to cultivate it yourself by downloading our 2015 Hall of Fame Keepsake Booklet and reading how each of our Hall of Fame inductees used it to build a successful business they love, often against the odds.
