It’s that time again, time for the Glass Slipper Awards 2019
Where the achievements of inspirational women across the North East will be recognised at The Chronicle Sunshine Fund’s Glass Slipper Awards 2019. The headline sponsor this year is North and the afternoon awards ceremony will take place on Friday 22nd February 2019 at the Hilton Newcastle Gateshead.
nesma boss, Veronica Swindale, is absolutely delighted to be nominated for the North East Champion award and from the list below you can see what great company she is in. The North East Champion award recognises and celebrates the achievements of a talented individual that does genuinely inspiring things in the North East through their job role. They should be an ambassador for the region spreading the word about all the incredible things taking place focusing the spotlight on the region. The North East Champion is an individual making a real difference ensuring the North East maintains its position as one of the UK’s leading cities.
Veronica is the Managing Director of nesma. A company she set up in 2010 following a successful career in sales and marketing, after recognising the need for good quality professional education in marketing and communications in the North East. nesma is now an accredited teaching centre for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Digital Marketing Institute and she has extended its reach into Scotland and Cumbria. The centre has taught and inspired over 200 students and contracts with over 15 specialist tutors and has shown solid growth throughout this period.
Veronica coaches, teaches, consults and facilitates as well as driving the business forward and has achieved some of the highest awards a marketer can get. She is a Chartered Marketer, a Fellow of CIM and was awarded the CIM Ambassador of the North in 2017 for her commitment and service to the CIM both nationally and regionally. She has been a trailblazer for the CIM Leadership Qualification and ensured that nesma was selected as one of only seven study centres across the UK to deliver this qualification. In November 2018 she announced a strategic partnership with CIM to deliver nine new training courses from the Newcastle Study Centre in addition to adding four new CIPR qualification courses to the nesma portfolio this year.
Here’s just a snippet of the nomination for Veronica…
“The North East has spawned many brilliant people, ideas, inventions and innovations that are responsible for changing the world. In light of the changing nature of the way we now do business, continuous improvement will always enable us to seize opportunities and stay ahead. It’s clear that innovation is an incredibly valuable commodity and being able to adapt is essential but there will always be room to improve! Veronica’s crusades tirelessly to do this one student at a time by working hard to provide a learning space that cultivates students to think differently. Encouraging them to do new and better things and she brings new ideas and courses to the North East to align with its pioneering spirit”.
“Veronica supports a number of initiatives to make sure that marketing is at the centre of every business and enterprise in the North East, she is always looking for new ways to help and share what she knows. Her unbreakable passion to build informed and strategic marketers in the North East is beginning to have the positive reach she has dreamed about as now nesma is training and inspiring the teams and proteges of its Alumni”.
Here’s the full list of finalists!
Outstanding Business Leader
Alison Westworth, GLL
Yvonne Ormston, NEAS
Emma Quinn, Piffy & Egg
Unsung Hero
Jane Thistlethwaite
Donna Swan
Petra Williams
Woman in the Community (people’s choice details coming soon!)
sponsored by NCJ Media
Catherine Boland, Founders4Schools
Steph Eduesi, Healthwatch
Jill Mckinney, Sunderland Software City
Louise, Oasis Community Housing
Young Achiever
sponsored by Newcastle College
Alice Holliday, FIRST
Nicola Japp, Accenture
Isabella West, Hirestreet
North East Champion
Veronica Swindale, nesma
Tracy Chandler, Emirates
Helen Golightly, NE LEP
Jennifer Hartley, Invest Newcastle
Remarkable Woman
Sandra Beck
Kate Stanforth
Gemma Lowery
Lifetime Achievement
sponsored by North
To be announced at the event…
Everyone on this list is remarkable in their own right and Veronica feels very privileged to sit among them.
