Sylvia Tidy-Harris



Profile:
Full name: Sylvia Tidy-Harris

Area of interest: Business: start-ups and encouraging women into business

Journals/Organisation: The Daily Telegraph

Email: [mailto:sylvia@sthmanagement.co.uk sylvia@sthmanagement.co.uk]

Personal website: http://www.womenspeakers.co.uk

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Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/sylviatidyharri | http://uk.linkedin.com/in/070404 | http://en-gb.facebook.com/sylviatidyharris



Biography:
About: Entrepreneur and media pundit. She is a former "Your Business" columnist for the Telegraph and the founder of WomenSpeakers.co.uk

Education:

Career: Began as an air stewardess for Monarch Airlines at eighteen; personal and business manager to the cartoonist Bill Tidy; programme researcher for Granada, Central and BBC TV & Radio; worked as a charity fund-raising and an international tour manager; in journalism: wrote the 'business Viewpoint' columns for The Daily Telegraph between October 2005/April 2007, and has contributed business articles to the Daily Express and travel articles to Derbyshire Now/Today Current position/role: Managing Director of The Speakers Agency and womenspeakers.co.uk - see her profile here


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Other roles/Main role: Runs http://www.sthmanagement.co.uk

Other activities: Regional and national judge for the Orange National Business Awards (Entrepreneur of the Year; Woman of the Year), East Midlands Business Champion, an active FSB Amazing Volunteer and was also involved with the East Midlands Assembly, sitting on their Business Scrutiny and Survival Panel

Disclosures:

Viewpoints/Insight:

Broadcast media: BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio's 5 Live, BBC New 24, C4 News at 7pm, ITN news, Woman’s Hour, see more info

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Controversy/Criticism: Rachel Bridge: Baby leave - the mother of all issues, The Times, 2004; Emily Wilson: Life after birth, The Guardian, 2005

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Other: Daughter of cartoonist Bill Tidy



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Speaking/Appearances: Guested on BBC Radio’s 5 Live and The Jeremy Vine Show

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The Daily Telegraph:
Column name: Viewpoint *ended April 2007*

Remit/Info: Business

Section: City / Your Business

Role: Columnist

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Day published: Tuesday

Regularity: Weekly

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Links:

 * Look back (last regular column) - 24th April 2007
 * Maternity leave rights - 10th April 2007
 * The Entrepreneurial Attitude to Business test - 20th February 2007
 * Flexible working issues - 6th February 2007
 * Networking - 23rd January 2007



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Links:

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Tidy-Harris