Black History Month summit speaker: Sonia Brown

Sonia Brown MBE has over 20-years experience in marketing, branding and life skills development. She is an authority on many areas of business, leadership, sales and marketing, as well as supporting individuals to achieve success in all areas of life.

She founded the National Black Women’s Network; Let’s Talk Business Networking Forum and Sistatalk the UK’s leading online forum for women looking to connect with leading companies, decision makers and industry peers. More recently she launched the Inspirational Women’s Super Summit at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh and designed EVOLVE; a six-step business growth programme aimed at solo and micro entrepreneurs.

She contributes to a number of radio shows, magazines and newspapers on women, diversity and enterprise issues. She leads on the APPG Women in Enterprise Diversity & Inclusion Sub Committee; is a trustee for the Chinese Information and Advice Centre and member of the Global Punjabi Society.

Sonia was named one of the Top 50 diversity figures in public life on the Economist Global List and is the International Alliance for Women (TIAW) World of Difference 100 Award Recipient for the economic empowerment of women.