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Shine Awards winners announced

Thursday, 28 Nov, 2008 0

 

The top women in travel have been unveiled at the 2008 Shine Awards.

The winners were:

Corporate Woman – Vanessa Lensenn, Go Learn To

Woman Entrepreneur – Julia Feuell, New Frontiers

Outstanding Mentor – Gina McAdams, Stratemarco Limited

Public Sector Woman – Karen Illingworth, The Mersey Partnership

Young Achiever – Emma Chang, The Liner Hotel   

The judges awarded two special prices and two commendations:

 

1st Special Prize for female leadership to Fiona Jeffery,  chair of World Travel Market

For her ability to lead and engage others in her vision and for her work in establishing the charity ‘Just a drop’.

2nd Special Prize for young entrepreneur to Karen Eason of Sunshine Travel

For being charismatic and inspirational to a young generation of professionals and for standing out in a very crowded marketplace.

1st Commendation to Lynn Westbury of the Foresight Centre

For singlehandedly delivering a business plan to develop the first Business Conference Centre in Merseyside.

2nd Commendation to Sharon Glancy of Stonebow

For showing great commitment to training and development and achieving exceptional performance in an under-recognised sector.

A ‘talent management’ round table was held in conjunction with the awards at the London metropolitan University’s Graduate Centre and will repeated again next year.

The 25 participants debated a number of key issues including better internal communication by managers to staff during the current economic environment, creative brainstorming, skills tranfers between employees and increased use of mentoring.

  

 

 



 

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