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Rachel Elnaugh
Rachel Elnaugh is passionate about enterprise and is one of Britain’s highest profile female entrepreneurs. Her multi-million pound business success – and later failure, her observation of contestants under pressure in the BBC TV Dragon’s Den and her desire to help others into business wherever she can make Rachel a compelling and engaging speaker.
Red Letter Days
In 1989 Rachel Elnaugh founded Red Letter Days. In doing so she created the concept of giving experiences as unforgettable gifts. Today, the UK ‘experiences’ market is worth more than £200 million annually employing thousands of people throughout the country.
Rachel Elnaugh is one of the country’s leading and most successful female entrepreneurs and had what the UK and international media has dubbed ‘the most exciting job in the world’. A morning in the boardroom was followed, a couple of hours later, by jumping out of an aeroplane or taking a look behind the scenes at Manchester United. All in the line of duty of course, to ensure people who received one of her famous Red Letter Days gift boxes get the experience of a lifetime.
Her most popular presentations
Rachel Elnaugh – The Entrepreneurial Journey. From helping in the family firm as a teenager to demands as a national speaker, Rachel talks of her early career, the excitement of growing Red Letter Days and the disappointment of failure. She reflects on what it means to be a ‘celebrity entrepreneur’, the pressures, the highs and the lows. Her audiences respect her candid reflections on the fallibility of the business owner and admire her determination to help and inspire others on their own entrepreneurial journeys.
Are You an Entrepreneur? Rachel challenges her audience to consider why they might want to start a business and what lies behind that desire. Drawing on her own early experiences and observations of business owners, Rachel explains how her new online Entrepreneurial Profiler Test is designed to place people in one of nine entrepreneurial categories. Armed with this information, people can research and start the kind of business they are most suited to – and avert any future failure.
Business Nightmares: Lessons Entrepreneurs Learned the Hard Way. Based on Rachel’s book due to be published in 2008, audiences get an insight into how the rich, the famous and the infamous have ridden the storms of business failure and lived to tell the tale.
“I am sitting at my desk looking at the influx of emails from women who attended our event, all of them singing your praises. They clearly got a lot out of your talk and have been thoroughly inspired.”
British Association of Women Entrepreneurs (BAWE) November 2007
