LOVE ENTREPRENEURS - Key Persons
Eleri's passion is the creation of something from nothing and the challenges that go along with that. By profession, she is a highly proficient international oil and gas lawyer, is fluent in 5 languages with a diversity of business building skills, legal and negotiating skills and sales & marketing experience spanning 15 years. She spent seven years working in international law in Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Kirgizstan and was the legal adviser to the British Ambassador to Kazakhstan for a long time, five years spent in international sales focusing on selling and developing land, two years developing a private equity boutique lending and wealth management business and fourteen years building a property portfolio. During this time, a wealth of marketing skills, business acumen and sales skills both face to face and over the telephone have been employed both by negotiating international oil and gas deals and conducting arbitrations and also by setting up International Property Finders (IPF) - a highly successful business focusing on the sale and development of foreign property and ex EU land to the UK and European Investor market. Negotiations and sales have been conducted in a number of foreign languages including Russian, German and French.
Yvonne Bignall, award-winning personal development educator and life motivator for both lifestyle and business, is the founder of YvonneB Limited, an outlet for the work she has created based on her 7F Principles: be fit, be fearless, create freedom, pay it forward, enjoy friends and family, have fun, and have faith. These principles are aimed at one goal, the one goal that Yvonne sees as integral to all other goals worth achieving: Confidence. If you have confidence, you can create the life you want. And the good news is confidence can be built! Yvonne believes in, lives by and teaches the power of building confidence every day.
Yvonne also uses her training design qualifications to assist businesses in creating workshops/courses to CPD standards, an evidence based process that ensures learning is engaging and accessible to all. As a CPD Ambassador she also assists businesses with their membership to CPD if they wish to gain accreditation.
For 22 years, she worked in the health, leisure, and well-being industry, gradually acquiring the wisdom needed to effect change in people the way that she does. As someone who believes that learning never ends, she has taken up the studies of social psychology, positive psychology, leadership skills, and MAPP for business growth. Of her numerous accomplishments, she is particularly proud of completing the 2015 London Marathon, her successes in the fitness figure world, as well as her soft skills training & business awards.
Her food for thought quote… "Don't get comfortable, get moving. Find your passion, create your dream and live the life you were gifted to live"