Successful serial entrepreneur Christina Ioannidis is turning her hand to connecting diversity, skills and networking via the use of an innovative suite of social networking tools.
Christina is an organisational and individual development consultant, with a background in telecoms, IT and FMCG who turned entrepreneur. She runs both Aquitude, a consultancy which works with corporate clients to assist them in harnessing diversity and innovation for competitive advantage and Bidiversity, a not-for-profit which aims to fertilise innovative thinking between different business sectors.
Most recently, she has moved into career development for women, by creating Club Purl, an invitation only networking group for women of differing levels of seniority and industries from around the world who can connect via LinkedIn, personal development webinars, privately hosted networking dinners and structured, one-of-a-kind, virtual “speed networking” calls.
Christina, London based and of Greek and Venezuelan heritage, is a committed and passionate networker, dubbing herself the “mistress of reinvention”, following her double corporate redundancy and the failure of her original bespoke accessories business. She is clear that she has learned the hard way that you need to move on in order to create credibility and reinvention – and that networking with your female peers can be one way of progressing.