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 – Lead from the Heart and other Leadership Lessons

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Hosted by HerBusiness

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24 May 2010

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Karen Matthews has over 22 years experience in national and international retailing, franchising and strategic brand management. Karen launched Australia’s first skincare model, Ella Baché, where she spent 10 years as CEO after resigning in 2009 when she started Inside-Out Leadership.

Karen is recognised in the business community as an innovative leader with strong operational and strategic skills and operates as she calls it by an intuitive style of “inside out” leadership. A high energy leader, she walks the talk, fights to the death for what she believes in and has a personal mantra to “inspire people to be the best that they can be.” She’s an innovative leader who operates by an intuitive style of “inside out” leadership.

Her personal mantra is to “inspire people to be the best that they can be.”

 

Listen to this herBusiness interview with Karen Matthews to learn:

  • How to lead from the inside-out and the qualities of good leaders
  • Simple strategies for strategic planning
  • Small Business Marketing

The interview provides practical tips and insights for businesswomen.

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About the host

Suzi Dafnis

Hi there. I’m Suzi Dafnis, CEO at HerBusiness. My BIG passion is helping women business owners to grow and scale their business, so that they can create their ideal lifestyle and make a difference in the world. Every day I am inspired by the more than 30,000 amazing women (and men!) in our community and I love finding the best education, mentors, and resources from around the globe, to help them get the skills, knowledge, and support they need to succeed. It’s been my privilege to lead HerBusiness (formerly The Australian Businesswomen’s Network) for the past 23 years (two+ decades – WOW!) because, whilst I’ve enjoyed success in business, I’ve also experienced the highs and the lows – sometimes you can feel on top of the world and in control and other times you can feel isolated, exhausted and stuck. What has made the biggest difference for me has always been having great people around me and having a lifelong commitment to learning. That’s why I am so passionate about the work we do here at HerBusiness – providing a Connection Network for women in business to get the mentors, contacts, referrals, knowledge, and skills they need to grow their confidence, make more money, build their businesses, expand their network and create the lives they love. My entrepreneurial journey started in the spare room of my Sydney apartment in 1994 when my business partner and I started a boutique events company that represented speakers and authors from the USA, here in Australia. Over the years I’ve grown multiple multi-million dollar businesses in the events, publishing and education niches – with teams in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Not everything has worked and there has been a degree of trial and error, and a lot of bumps in the road. But I have always had a strong commitment to always surrounding myself with great mentors and like-minded peers – a Connection Network that I can depend on and who can depend on me to be there for them too. I truly do what I love, every day.  

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About the guest(s)

Karen Matthews

Karen Matthews

Karen Matthews is a Business Reinvention expert with over 25yrs experience leading business turnaround, change and growth for some well-known businesses including Ella Bache, Freedom and Myer and Karen passionately believes that businesses who do not continue to reinvent themselves to grow will lose relevance, stagnate and quickly go backwards. Karen is renowned for her refreshingly unique, inspirational and re “no BS” leadership style and continues to amaze her clients with her ability to quickly identify the issues, suggest a practical roadmap forward and at the same time support the leader to have the confidence and certainty to commit.

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