The 18th cycle of Going for Growth, the award-winning programme for ambitious female entrepreneurs focused on scaling their businesses, concluded with a special celebration in Dublin last week.
Going for Growth is designed to help female entrepreneurs realise their growth ambitions by increasing sales, generating additional employment and securing new export opportunities. The programme is sponsored by Enterprise Ireland and KPMG.
This year, 46 female entrepreneurs successfully completed the six-month programme. A further 29 female entrepreneurs completed Starting Strong, a programme aimed at ambitious entrepreneurs with more recently established businesses. They will be recognised at a separate celebration next week.
At the start of the cycle, Going for Growth participants had a combined turnover of €105 million, employed almost 600 people and half were already exporters. Over the past six months, each participant set ambitious goals and built on these strong foundations.
Thanks to the ongoing support of Enterprise Ireland and KPMG, Going for Growth is provided free of charge to participants. They are supported throughout their growth journey by voluntary Lead Entrepreneurs, all of whom are successful female entrepreneurs.
This year’s Lead Entrepreneurs for Going for Growth were Anne Cusack, Fidelma McGuirk, Jeananne O’Brien, Oonagh O’Hagan, Susan Spence and Tara Beattie.
