Sharon Woma

The Founder of Excellent Women, Sharon Woma was inspired whilst in the US in the summer of 2004 to consider launching a business aimed at developing women, impacting every area of their life, the concept ‘whole life development' was borne.The business provides access to high quality training for women from every walk of life, whether she is in the boardroom or community centre.We are committed to removing barriers to accessing training for women from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, including women from ethnic minority communities.

Sharon Woma, Managing Director and Trainer:Sharon has over 17 years of experience in business, administration and finance and owns four small businesses (Naytiv Junction Jewellery & Gifts, Eden Business Services, Excellent Women and Thomas Woma Ltd).She currently works as a consultant, mentor, trainer and business advisor for Nottingham based enterprise agencies and has recently completed market research examining the support needs of ethnic minority business (on behalf of First Enterprise Business Agency).Sharon was one of the 20 people selected from around 800 across the UK to go to the US in June 2004 on a business training programme at a prestigious business school (Babson College Boston USA).
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Sharon has since become an Ambassador for the New Entrepreneur (NES) scheme (http://www.nesprogramme.org/), which helps people from disadvantaged backgrounds all over the UK to become self-employed.

Sharon Woma invites interested parties to email her at rountable@excellentwomen.co.uk.

Author: Sharon Woma, Excellent Women - 31/01/2005 15:23:58

Sharon Woma a local ‘Excellent Woman' was invited to meet the Treasury's Economic Secretary, John Healey MP and top Treasury officials on Tuesday 16th November during National Enterprise Week.

As part of the government's initiative to address the country's entrepreneurial gap with the United States, Sharon and 19 other scholars from the New Entrepreneur Scholarships travelled to America at the end of June this year.The Scholars were chosen as part of the New Entrepreneur Transatlantic Scholarship programme that was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in March of this year.
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Sharon was inspired to set up Excellent Women Ltd, a business training company aimed at women owner-managers whilst in America, Babson has a prestigious centre for Women's Leadership.Her contact with local business women in Nottingham as a mentor for Nottingham Business Venture and Advisor at First Enterprise helped her to recognise a need for high-quality business training and networking opportunities that would be affordable for every woman.Sharon values the opportunity to visit the Treasury and share her experiences about the trip and her development as a result of the visit."Without the NES programme", she stated "I would not have the business I have today, start-up funding was a major contributor to me getting the business off the ground, this coupled with the American experience has more than doubled the potential of my business.2005 is set to be a fantastic year for business".She has enlisted a number of experienced dynamic women trainers for forthcoming events and is currently promoting the launch of the Excellent Women Network Group to be held in January 2005; she welcomes women in business to join her on this journey.She can be contacted at her offices at 82-84 Radford Road Nottingham.

The NES programme was adopted this year as a mainstream programme funded by the Learning and Skills Council and run on their behalf by a partnership of the National Federation of Enterprise Agencies (NFEA), the Association of Business Schools and the Princes Trust.

At this event five new recruits were welcomed onto the Champion task-force; Nottinghamshire based Jean Shaw of Principles HR and Sharon Woma of Excellent Women Ltd, along with Roy Milward, Milward-Brown & Associates Ltd; Caroline Newman-Belshaw, ITV Central and Ian Page, QBC Ltd.