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Sylvia
is the Athena Network Regional Director
for the West Chilterns region.
Sylvia was raised in a strict Baptist
family where her passion for helping
people achieve a better life was
awakened at a very tender age.
This
passion was temporarily suppressed
during an early and very oppressive
marriage when she longed for the
opportunity to find a channel for her
energies and abilities.
She
poured herself into her career in
nursing, midwifery and latterly as a
theatre sister in ‘Open Heart Surgery’.
When
the only option for further career
progression became an administration
role she decided to follow another
passion – health and fitness.
Sylvia opened a Health Food business
followed quickly by a Health Food
franchise in House of Fraser, Glasgow
and derived great pleasure from helping
people to feel fitter and more
energised.
Looking for new challenges and direction
after escaping her unhappy marriage,
Sylvia used her medical and selling
experience to secure a role in the
Pharmaceutical Industry where she
received excellent training in selling
and presentation skills and regularly
ran meetings to present new products to
Consultants, GPs and senior Healthcare
Professionals. Sylvia’s success led to
her being enlisted to train new
salespeople and build her own team.
Her
skills were greater enhanced by working
for Industrial Motivation Ltd. which
specialised in selling ‘campaigns’ to
companies to increase employee
involvement and motivation. She was
responsible for organising and running
breakfast meetings at which she
presented the campaign strategies to
senior company executives followed by
face to face meetings in the workplace.
She
was quickly promoted to Regional Sales
Manager responsible for recruiting and
training a sales team.
Sylvia is currently Business Development
Director for Assured Future, Independent
Financial Advisers, and is responsible
for all aspects of business growth
including the website, marketing
materials, PR, promotional events and
networking.
Sylvia is a born networker and has found
networking to be so successful in terms
of bringing new business to Assured
Future that she is now also Regional
Director of The Athena Network and has
set up 6 very successful networking
groups for business women in Bucks and
Berkshire.
Such
is the demand for these groups that she
is now launching 2 new groups in spring
2008 in Aylesbury and Maidenhead and has
already got ladies booking memberships
for both groups
Sylvia’s diverse experience in
networking has led to her developing
training courses to help others maximise
the vast potential of the whole
networking opportunity.
Sylvia is passionate about helping women
to realise their full potential, achieve
their goals and fulfil their dreams.
Sylvia Baldock
Regional Director - The Athena Network
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