In this episode of The Ambition Accelerator Podcast, Sophie Milliken talks to Linda Plant, who built her career from humble beginnings to become one of Britain’s most successful business leaders. Known as ‘The Queen of Mean’ for her no nonsense interviews of BBC's The Apprentice’s final five candidates, Linda provided advice to Sir Alan Sugar over 5 seasons.

After leaving school at 16 Linda progressed quickly from selling fashion from a Leeds market stall to launching her international knitwear brand, Honeysuckle.

As a pioneer female business leader she continued her business successes in a series of challenging executive roles, whilst consecutively growing and selling her own electronics company.

Her passion for business and entrepreneurship has also been recognised with a number of business awards. Now she's helping others to forge their own career and business path too, with her Linda Plant Business Academy and Blueprint Business Course, available at Lindaplant.com

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In this episode of The Ambition Accelerator Podcast, Sophie Milliken talks to Jacqueline de Rojas CBE, multi-award winning businesswoman and passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in all its forms.

President at TechUK and Digileaders, and Co-Chair at the Institute of Coding, Jacqueline was honoured as CBE for Services to International Trade in Technology in the Queen's New Year Honours list 2018.

Some of Jacqueline's many awards include 2018 Women in Tech Award for Advocate of the Year acknowledging her contribution to diversity, and #IB100 – Most influential BAME leaders in tech. She was also awarded the Digital & Technology Award at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2019, and was included in the list of the 'World’s 100 most influential people in digital government' 2019.

Woman of the Year awarded by Women in IT Excellence 2019

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In this episode of The Ambition Accelerator Podcast, Sophie Milliken talks to Stephanie Kauffman, managing partner with Tahoe Ventures, a strategic consulting and advisory firm.

A longtime marketing, strategy and brand partnerships leader at Universal Studios, Stephanie worked in various roles of increasing responsibility, eventually becoming the Senior Vice President, Global Brand Alliances for the Studios’ worldwide film, home entertainment and theme park businesses.

Under her leadership, Universal forged landmark partnerships with global brands on blockbuster film and theme park integration. Stephanie has also held chief partnerships roles with TripAdvisor and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Additionally, Stephanie serves on the Board of Directors for the International Women's Media Foundation, which champions strengthening women's roles and voices in global media.

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