Discover the past winners of our prestigious Business woman of the Year Award and our inspirational Woman of Achievement Award. Our alumni demonstrates the extraordinary talent and the outstanding achievements of our winners from all across the UK, over the past 42 years
Business Woman
Roni Savage
Founder and CEO, Jomas Engineering
Freeths Woman with Edge
Julianne Ponan MBE
Founder and CEO,
Creative Nature
Woman of Achievement
Figen Murray OBE
Business Woman
Jennie Johnson MBE
CEO - Kids Allowed Ltd
Freeths Woman with Edge
Debbie Francis
Managing Director - Direct Rail Services
Woman of Achievement
The Women of Grenfell
Justice4Grenfell and The Hubb Community Kitchen
Lifetime Achievement Award
Pauline Edden
Business Woman
Sally Preston
Founder and Managing Director - Kiddylicious
Jaguar Woman with Edge
Fiona Allan
Chief Executive and Artistic Director - Birmingham Hippodrome
Woman of Achievement
The Women of the RAF
Special Recognition Award
The Women of the Suffragette Movement
Business Woman
Fleur Sexton
Co-founder & MD of PET-Xi Training
Woman of Achievement
The Women of the Emergency Services
Business Woman
Jacqui O’Donovan
Managing Director –
O’Donovan Waste Disposal
Woman of Achievement
Margaret
Aspinall
Chair of the Hillsborough Family
Support Group
Business Woman
Dr Sharon Redrobe OBE
Founder & CEO – Twycross Zoo
Woman of Achievement
Baroness Helen Newlove
Victims' Commissioner
Lifetime Achievement Award
Baroness Stedman-Scott OBE
Conservative Member House of Lords/
Ambassador for Tomorrow’s People
Business Woman
Jenny Campbell
Founder and CEO, YourCash Europe
Woman of Achievement
Claire
Lomas MBE
British Paralympian
Business Woman
Julie Kenny CBE
Director – Pyronix
Woman of Achievement
Margaret Humphreys CBE
Founder – Child Migrants Trust
Business Woman
Emma Elston MBE
CEO – UK Container Maintenance
Woman of Achievement
Martine Wright MBE
British Paralympian
Business Woman
Julie White
Managing Director – D-Drill
Woman of Achievement
Lucy Shuker
British Paralympian
Business Woman
Suzie Norton
Producer – Electric Flix
Woman of Achievement
Karen Darke
British Paralympics' cyclist,
paratriathlete, adventurer and author
Business Woman
Dame Asha
Khemka DBE
Principal and CEO of West
Nottinghamshire College
Woman of Achievement
Hilary Lister
First disabled woman to sail solo around Britain
Woman of Courage
Katie Piper
Founder of Katie Piper Foundation and
Presenter
Business Woman
Hilary Devey
Chief Executive and Chairman
Pall-Ex Group
Woman of Achievement
Professor Christine King CBE
Vice Chancellor of Staffordshire
University
Business Woman
Karren Brady CBE
CEO West Ham United FC, Senior
Non-Executive Director Syco
Entertainment
Woman of Achievement
Vicki Heywood CBE
Warwick Commission
Business Woman
Dorian Chan
Chairman – Wing Wah Restaurants
Woman of Achievement
Judy Naake
High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire
Business Woman
Carol Burke
Managing Director – Unipart Manufacturing
Woman of Achievement
Dame Maureen Brennan
Executive Headteacher
Business Woman
Hilary Devey
Founder Pall-Ex
Woman of Achievement
Jeanette Orrey MBE
Children’s food campaigner
Business Woman
Sarah Tremellen
Founder and CEO, Bravissimo
Woman of Achievement
Denise Leigh
Opera Singer
Business Woman
Louise Potter
Board of the High Peak Theatre
Trust/ Owner
Woman of Achievement
Karen Pickering MBE
Olympic Swimmer
Business Woman
Jane Lodge
University of Birmingham
Woman of Achievement
Polly Vacher MBE
Aviator
Business Woman
Valerie
Goodchild Governor
Woman of Achievement
Dorcas
Munday MBE
Author - Phab
Business Woman
Lisa Burke
Network Marketing Executive –
doTERRA Atlantic & Med Europe
Woman of Achievement
Margaret
Humphreys CBE
Founder – Child Migrants Trust
Business Woman
Julie Jasper
Chair of Audit and
Governance Committee
Woman of Achievement
Baroness Tanni Grey Thomson
Paralympian
Business Woman
Fiona Hudson
Kelly Founder – Smart Assessor
Woman of Achievement
Dilys Williams
Business Woman
Suzy Brain England OBE
Chair of Doncaster and Bassettlaw Hospitals
Business Woman
Bridget Blow
Chair of the Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra and Director of England
Netball
Woman of Achievement
Professor
Deirdre Kelly OBE
Woman of Achievement
Christine Leung
Business Woman
Perween Warsi- CBE
Founder and CEO of S & A Foods
Woman of Achievement
Joan Brander MBE
Founding Trustee – Winged Fellowship Trust
Business Woman
Beverley Hodson OBE
University of Gloucestershire – Chair of the
F & G P Committee
Woman of Achievement
Nancy Doyle
Business Woman
Janet Williams
Woman of Achievement
Dorothy Hadley MBE
Lifelong Charity Fundraiser – Guide Dogs
for the Blind
Business Woman
Tracey Kimberley
Woman of Achievement
Judith Dance
Business Woman
Bronwen Curtis
Lay member for the Judicial Conduct
Investigations Office
Woman of Achievement
Yvette
Price – Mear
Founder - The Pet
Bereavement Support Group
Business Woman
Patricia Gillespie
Woman of Achievement
Irene Kotchin
Business Woman
Anne Sendall
Woman of Achievement
Terry Hadleigh
Business Woman
Jane Moyle
Jane Moyle Photography
Woman of Achievement
Bertha Smith
Business Woman
Shirley Hamilton
Techni-plant Limited
Woman of Achievement
Annette Smith
Woman of Achievement
Anne Pitman
Woman of Achievement
Joan Adams
Woman of Achievement
Elizabeth Nowakowska
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