Women We Watch In Tourism

Women We Watch is the first global podcast featuring women leaders in Tourism and Hospitality business and their achievements in entrepreneurship, gender equality, innovation, crisis management and so much more. Each Episode presents the professional journeys of these women leaders, their business models, experiences, leadership qualities and practical transferable strategies for listeners. It features diverse range of women leaders who are movers and shakers, across age groups, geographical regions and sectors within the industry who will share sharp, unfiltered insights and unconventional wisdom. Besides their professional and entrepreneurial journeys, these changemakers will share their human journey — with all its failures and setbacks. The show prides itself on being the ideal platform for women in tourism to seek inspiration, knowledge and to transform their potentials. WWW podcast in jointly presented by World Women Tourism and The Flapper Life. World Women Tourism is World Women Tourism, a network intelligence platform that provides opportunities to women in tourism to connect, grow and flourish. The organization visions to impact the trajectory of women in the tourism industry through promoting diversity, knowledge sharing, building networks, capacity building and opening up business opportunities.For more information, visit us at https://www.worldwomentourism.comThe Flapper Life is a boutique travel studio that paints the destination of your dreams on a blank canvas and takes you to the destination in an unlimitable style. For more information visit us at : https://www.theflapperlife.com

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Jean Winter: Dare to be Brave

February 21, 2022 • Season 2 • Episode 6

Women are creating innovative companies at unprecedented rates and they are at the forefront of many market trends. They have the education and skills to build prosperous companies, but struggle for the capital and funding.

In the past year, the amount of funding to women-led startups declined, as the overall amount of venture dollars poured into startups inched higher. The startups that have drawn a larger share of VC dollars are those with a team of all male founders. A Harvard business Review found that 90% of VC decision makers are men, who, in turn, invest 86% of their capital in all-male teams. The burning question is this: What must happen for this to change? And also, more importantly why are women getting a smaller piece of the VC pie? What are their biggest challenges?

To speak about these pertinent issues, we have on today’s episode Jean Winter.

Jean is the founder of Jean's Private Kitchen, Geneva’s first underground dining concept which successfully expanded to France, Hamburg, Singapore and now to Dubai. She started the private dining concept from her home catering to mostly clients from UN/WHO/WTO/Footballers/VIPs in the Geneva region, relying purely on word of mouth with no advertising and gradually grew her clientele base to more than 700 private clients in Geneva alone. As a celebrity chef, she now hosts VVIPS, government officials and royalties, purely based on word of mouth.

Jean is also a food consultant to the Singapore Embassy & Consulate UAE and other international organisations. She played an integral part at the Singapore Pavilion, Expo Dubai, recreating the Singapore hawker experience.

The negative impact of the pandemic on female-owned businesses drove Jean to invest in people over stocks and shares. As an angel investor and VC, Jean has supported many women-led businesses affected by the economic downturn.

Jean is also the CEO of Touch Consultancy, UAE’s 1st Disability Inclusion Consultancy, an inclusive platform that represents people of determination. Based on three distinct pillars of representation, growth, and community outreach, the company promotes stories of people of determination in a way that respectfully educates society about disability.

Despite her fame as a renowned, celebrity chef, Jean is strongly grounded on her core values of honesty, kindness, humanity, charity, loyalty and good manners. And this is the reason why without a website or paid marketing/advertising, Jean draws 1000s of followers and major clients.

Jean Winter can be reached on:
Instagram: @jeansprivatekitchen and @jeanwinterconsultancy

This podcast is jointly presented by:
World Women Tourism https://www.worldwomentourism.com/
The Flapper Life : http://theflapperlife.com