Annabel Karmel MBE

Annabel Karmel is proof-positive that you don't need a business degree to build a successful brand. After growing her business empire from scratch at her kitchen table, the mother of three is the UK's No.1 children's cookery author, best-selling international author, and expert on devising delicious, nutritious meals for babies, children and families.

Since launching her revolutionary cookbook for babies - The Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner in 1991 - a feeding 'bible’, which has sold over 6 million copies and become the 2nd bestselling non-fiction hardback of all time, Annabel has raised millions of families on her recipes.

With over 50 published cookbooks, Annabel’s vision has always been to ensure every child gets the nutrition they need for their development and long-term health, and her unique, tasty recipes have made her a true pioneer in her field.

With a vast digital following, an impressive Baby & Toddler Recipe App and award-winning supermarket food ranges, Annabel is a leading pillar for parents looking to give their family the very best start. Annabel has also developed baby and children’s menus for some of the world’s leading hotels, leisure resorts and nurseries.

In 2006, Annabel received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for her outstanding work in the field of child nutrition. From kitchen table to global stage, Annabel is loved and trusted all over the world for raising healthy, happy eaters.

Annabel is a long standing patron of Julia’s House, a hospice which provides specialist respite and palliative care for children with life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses, and she also supports the important work of The Lullaby Trust.

Through Annabel’s profound work in food education and child nutrition, she has become recognised as one of the UK’s leading female entrepreneurs and a role model all over the world.

Having built an incredible community - and global business - from her kitchen table with three children in tow, Annabel has used her learning's as a force of good to support other women in business, particularly mothers.

Annabel has mentored dozens of mothers who have faced that very same challenge of building and scaling a business whilst raising children. Her passion to help other parents culminated in the publication of her very first business book, Mumpreneur (Ebury) in 2015. This guide has served to equip parents with practical tools and guidance to reach for their business dreams and goals.

In 2016 Annabel won Private Business Woman of the Year. Some remarkable businesswomen were nominated for this sought after accolade. And in 2018 Annabel featured in the LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders series. 2019 saw Annabel scoop the award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship at the Global Thinkers Forum Award for Excellence.

Inspirational and approachable, Annabel is the perfect role model to empower mums to take that first step in starting a business.

Food and family life
· Raising a healthy happy baby - eating during pregnancy, weaning, fussy eaters, finger foods, lunchboxes, food allergies etc
· How to be a 21st Century Mum
· Cookery demos
 
Motivational / Entrepreneurial / Start-up
· General entrepreneurship
· Believe in yourself – get confident and draw on your experience
· Finding your business niche / do your homework and make a plan
· How to develop your brand
· Making the most of networking
· Mastering the juggling act of being a parent and working
· Building and growing your business
· How to test and perfect a product
· Finding your guilt threshold as a working parent
· The value of persistence / embracing failure and succeeding from it
· How to make it as a mumpreneur (broad coverage of the above topics with a ‘mum’ focus)
·Why women are awesome at running their own businesses

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