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Debbie Wosskow
One of the most prominent serial entrepreneurs in the UK, launching and scaling businesses
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Gender: Female
Nationality: United Kingdom
Languages: English, French
Travels from: United Kingdom
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- Debbie Wosskow OBE is recognised as one of the most prominent serial entrepreneurs in the UK, known for successfully launching and scaling businesses in the areas of digital disruption, the sharing economy and female empowerment.
Biography
Meet Debbie Wosskow
Debbie Wosskow OBE is one of the UK’s best known female entrepreneurs. She has built and exited three businesses as Founder CEO (Mantra (2007), Love Home Swap (2017) and AllBright (2022) – raising capital at all levels from Angel to VC to PE.
Debbie is a prolific angel investor and the co Chair of the U.K. government backed ‘Invest in Women Taskforce’. Appointed by the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, she has raised an initial funding point of £250m to support female powered businesses, the largest in the world.
She is the co-founder of WJV, the boutique investment and strategic innovation firm, championing diversity, wellness and economic empowerment and a Founding Advisor to Smart Society Ventures.
Debbie is Executive Chair of The Better Menopause, empowering women’s performance at midlife through science-backed products. She is a Non Executive Director of Channel 4 and a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company.
She is the co- Author of the business bestseller ‘Believe, Build, Become – How to Supercharge your Career’ (Penguin 2019). Debbie is a Board Member of The Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board and The Women’s Prize for Fiction, where she Chairs the Development Board.
She is a Former Evening Standard ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ and Author of the ‘Wosskow Review on the Sharing Economy’ for the UK government (2015) and former Chair of Sharing Economy UK.
Debbie was awarded an OBE in June 2016 & received Freedom of the City of London 2019.
She graduated with an MA in Philosophy and Theology from New College, Oxford.
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Scaling a Business
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Gender Equality in the Workplace
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Building a high performance culture
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Modern Feminism
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Entrepreneurship
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Believe. Build. Become.: How to Supercharge Your Career
Want to be your own boss? Or want to be THE boss? Start here.
Believe. Build. Become. is a hands-on manual designed to help any woman develop the skills and mindset she needs to become a successful leader.
Based on the AllBright Academy courses created by entrepreneur Debbie Wosskow (OBE, Founder of Love Home Swap) and leading businesswoman Anna Jones (former CEO of Hearst), Believe. Build. Become. offers a chapter-by-chapter system for readers to work through, focusing on the skills and confidence required to master the mindset of leadership. Debbie and Anna also reveal their own journeys to success – the gritty reality, the lessons learned and how they really got to the top.
This is an inspirational, practical and accessible guide to becoming the boss you want to be.
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