The Powerhouse Picnic – 29th June 2022 – Women in Business Event
You’re invited... Summer 2022 sees the start of a new annual event called “The Powerhouse Picnic” with the amazing Lucy Kennedy and a host of enterprise talent sharing their story. The Powerhouse Picnic is on 29th June 2022 in the Woodford Dolmen Hotel
This event is free and open to business owners and their key staff across Ireland and gives the opportunity to connect and gain knowledge from one another in a semi-formal networking environment. The panel includes Anna May McHugh , Kim McKenzie Doyle,
Liz Morrissey, Catriona Cullen & Sandra Nolan.
The invite is open to all businesspeople and their key staff.
The event is free of charge and includes refreshments on arrival by the award-winning team at Woodford Dolmen Hotel- Registration is Essential
Schedule
• 5.45pm Registration Area Opens (All Clients are asked to arrive at 5.45pm Sharp)
• 6.00pm Networking , Refreshments & Light Supper
• 7.00pm The Powerhouse Panel with Lucy Kennedy
• 8.00pm Closing Words – Lucy Kennedy & Melissa Doyle
Bio of Speakers
Lucy Kennedy, TV and radio presenter and number one bestselling children’s author of ‘The Friendship Fairies’ and ‘The Friendship Fairies Go To School’.
Anna May McHugh, The Ploughing Queen; Anna May McHugh lives close to the village of Ballylynan, Co Laois and has lived in this area all her life. She was married to John McHugh (RIP), has one son, one daughter and 4 grandchildren. Anna May was educated in St Patrick’s National School, Ballylynan, St Brigids Secondary School in Athy, Co Kildare where she also completed a commercial course. Her journey through the ploughing started in 1951 when she took a job as secretary to the founder of the National Ploughing Association, she was appointed Secretary in 1956 when the NPA became a limited company and elected Managing Director in 1973. Anna May has been at the helm of the Ploughing Championships as it has evolved from a small ploughing match and agricultural trade exhibition to what is now widely recognised as the biggest agricultural event in Europe with 240,700 attendees last year, over 1,700 trade exhibitors and 350 ploughing competitors. Anna May is a Board Member of the World Ploughing Organisation, Chairperson of the Diocesan Finance Committee, and a Director and Chairman of KFM Radio, she served on the board of Teagasc for 5 years, Laois Enterprise Board for 15 years and she is actively involved in a number of community organisations. Some of the awards that Anna May has received include: Laois Person of the Year, Millennium Laois Person of the Year, Rehab People of the Year Award – outstanding contribution to society 1998, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011, Irish Tatler woman of the Year – Hall of Farm Category 2013, Irish Independent – Event Industry Award 2009, Lions Club – Melvin Jones Fellow 2013/14, FBD Women and Agriculture Awards – Lifetime Achievement Award, Veuve Cliquot Business woman of the Year Award, Irish Security Premier Award, Ireland’s Women Executives Award – WXN – Irish Times Trailblazers Award 2014 and honorary doctorate degrees from universities.
Kim McKenzie Doyle, Founder and CEO of The B!G Idea - Kim Mackenzie-Doyle
Kim Mackenzie-Doyle is a creative advocate, an internationally recognised product designer and winner of multiple worldwide design awards. Kim is a firm believer in the power of creativity to effect positive change. As a former President and current Director of the Institute of Designers Ireland, she represents the design community on a number of government-led initiatives including the Expert Group for Future Skills Needs.
Currently Kim is Founder and CEO of The B!G Idea, a multi-award-winning creative education programme for 15-16 year olds that bridges the gap between industry and education. Her reputation has attracted an incredible team and a formidable Board of Directors who have developed a ground breaking creative programme that is bringing the most in-demand skills in the world to young people nationally.
Liz Morrissey of ELM Beauty and Morrissey’s Pharmacy Carlow, Managing Director of Morrissey's Pharmacy, a second-generation Pharmacy business and Owner of ELM Beauty a 5* Beauty salon. Liz has run the family business for over a decade now and opened her second business in 2016. She has a background in Marketing and Banking which are areas that play a big part of her success as a businesswoman.
Catriona Cullen of Cullen Nurseries
After 10 years as a Quality Manager in the food industry, Caitriona stepped back from her career to help out in the family business and create a work life balance.
Instead, she found herself in the driving seat guiding their growing (pun intended) family run tree nursery through a global pandemic.
Cullen Nurseries are now an award-winning nursery focused on growing and supplying native trees and hedging plants to a nationwide customer base.
Sandra Nolan of Prettymess.ie The owner of PRETTYMESS.IE. She started her retail career in Ireland over 30 years ago. From there she moved to America and join her husband in his very successful Wholesale/Retail Business where they supplied all over the USA and Canada. She did all the Biggest Trade Fairs NY, Las Vegas, Chicago, Montreal, even P Diddy or Sean John as he was known back then showed his merchandise alongside her. From a very early age, she realised that if you have passion for what you do it, it shows and customer responds to that. People buy people. Sandra and her husband would spend 8 months a year in the states and 4 in Turkey where they owned Hotels. Being in the Hotel Business was a great learning opportunity for her to hone her Customer Service Skills. But it was going from a Go-getter Businesswomen, Jet Set lifestyle, having everything you ever wanted, and being in a very controlling abusive marriage that left her a shell of a person to where after her daughter was born, she wanted to end it all. But she knew she could never leave my daughter and that’s where she slowly took control back and the steps to rebuild her life.
Sandra divorced, walked away from millions, and planned her escape from Turkey with her daughter to start all over again at 49. She worked on herself swimming up and down the pool every day repeating positive affirmations until they did not seem so foreign to her anymore and she did this when the negative learned thoughts arise. For the last 5 years she has battled in Turkish Courts against her ex-husband on Kidnapping Charges, which thankfully she has won all of them, but they keep coming. She has 3 passions in Life: her daughter, Fashion and empowering girls and women. Prettymess.ie is not just about selling clothing for her it is about helping all girls and women to feel pretty and beautiful again, helping them to start investing in themselves. She hopes that Prettymess.ie, will give her that opportunity to do it on a much bigger scale. At 49 she is starting all over again and hopes that it will be a spark in women who have suffered total devastation from Abuse to see that they too can rebuild, restart their lives again no matter what age you ar