This is the perfect opportunity to hear first-hand accounts from successful entrepreneurs. The Bettany Centre Entrepreneurship Speaker Series gives you the chance to hear from a variety of entrepreneurs from across a range of industries.
The speakers will give you an insight in to their journey, identifying their successes and any mistakes that they may have made along their way. You will also be given the opportunity to ask questions, allowing you to delve even further in to the backstory of these well-established entrepreneurs.
Attending these events will provide you with a great chance to network with like-minded individuals who share your passion for entrepreneurship.
The events are entirely free of charge and refreshments are supplied (face-to-face events only).
Sarah Jordan, Founder and CEO of Y.O.U Underwear – Thursday 21 November 2024
Sarah is the multi-award-winning Founder and CEO of Y.O.U Underwear, the Oxford-based ethical underwear business that certified as the top-scoring B Corp in the SWAG合集 and world’s highest-scoring fashion brand in 2021. Sarah was volunteering in Uganda in 2016 when she learned of the challenges women and girls face in not having access to underwear. From that, she set up Y.O.U Underwear as a social enterprise, with a mission to change lives one pair of pants at a time.
Sarah’s previous experience includes more than 25 years in senior leadership roles across the not-for-profit, commercial and education sectors, as well as leading her own strategic digital consultancy business. She is a qualified NLP practitioner and coach, Trustee of the charities Smalls for All and The Beam Foundation, and has run BOLD, a positive change agency helping women achieve success in all areas of their lives, since 2013.
Y.O.U Underwear is an award-winning Social Enterprise making stylish, organic cotton underwear for men, women & girls. They have a fully circular business; using 100% Fairtrade & GOTS certified organic cotton, recycling more items than they produce each year to prevent them going to landfill, and having a buy-one give-one model, where every purchase provides underwear to people in need. Y.O.U stands for Your Own Underwear as they believe everyone deserves exactly that & so far, they’ve donated over 55,000 pairs. Y.O.U certified as the top-scoring B Corp in the SWAG合集 in 2021 & are the highest-scoring fashion B Corp in the world.
