Julia Chanteray runs The Joy of Business, providing practical
support and advice to businesses in Brighton, Sussex and London.
She was the resident business expert on Channel
4's Risking It All programme, where more than 2 million
people watched Julia on each of the five episodes.
She is very active in the Brighton business community, where she is President of the Chamber of Commerce.
Julia's background
Julia started her business career setting up social enterprises
in a very deprived area of Edinburgh, where she worked for
9 years. She did her MBA while working full time on setting up a housing association and other businesses owned by the community.
She then moved to the private sector and worked as Operations
Director for a technology company, taking it from 7 members
of staff to 50 staff and an AIM floatation in 18 months.
Julia's work
She's worked with hundreds of companies in Brighton, Sussex and London, all of whom have benefited from her range of
expertise and ability to quickly see what the real issues
are. Julia especially likes to work with companies who
have a great product or service, but are having difficulty
getting to where they want to go.
Julia in Brighton's business community
Julia is very active in the business community in Brighton.
She's currently President of the Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce, and was previously a director of the Business Community Partnership and South East Dance.
Julia is a popular speaker at business events, and as you'll see from the blog, Julia Chanteray talks, she has lots of opinions about business. See more about Julia Chanteray as a public speaker
Julia's passions
Julia is passionate about all kinds of business issues, but
she is particularly interested in:
- Networking and social capital, and how this helps you
build opportunties for your business.
- How you can build up confidence, and how this helps you
to make a success of what you do.
- The ethics of business, and how to ensure that you are
a force for good in the world.
- Innovative ways of marketing your business
The businesses Julia works with
Julia supports businesses who want to expand and grow
to the next stage. This might be someone who is working
on their own and wants to take on their first member of staff,
or someone who wants to build a small business into a bigger
one. Clients are usually businesses that have been going
for a while, and are ready to go to the next stage.
If this sounds like you, you should get
in touch for a chat about how Julia could help you - it
could make all the difference.
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