AN award-winning Moray businesswoman has come up trumps by forming a collaboration with one of the world’s biggest drinks companies.
Sarah Frame-O’Hare who owns Strategy Cards, is now working alongside Coca-Cola and has developed a new set of cards for one of the firm’s mentoring programs.
Her enterprising idea was spotted at a conference and the new set of cards will be used by the Coca-Cola 5by20, an initiative to enable the economic empowerment of five million women entrepreneurs by 2020.
Frame-O’Hare set up Strategy Cards Limited in November 2016, which combines card game-based tools with more than 30 professional topics, covering business planning, digital marketing, General Data Protection Regulation, International Organisation for Standardisation standards, mentoring, HR and more.
The cards are designed for managers, trainers and consultants to quickly, and creatively use for strategy planning and in team meetings and workshops.
Frame-O’Hare said she was delighted to be working with Coca-Cola: “It all seems a bit surreal, but of course I am delighted to be working with such a huge firm that has such strong values about supporting women in business.
“My cards were spotted at a conference I attended by Angie Foreman who runs the Coca-Cola 5by20 project for Scotland.
I have been working with Angie on creating a set of cards that can be used to carry forward the mentoring programme and roll it out even further across the country.
“It’s a great opportunity for the business, but I love the fact that the cards we have created will be used to support women in business. In some way, that is more of a win for me.”
Foreman, the Coca-Cola 5by20 programme director for Scotland said she instantly recognised that Frame-O’Hare’s Strategy Cards would be beneficial to the mentoring scheme.
She said: “I met Sarah at the Association of Scottish Business Women’s Unstoppable Women Conference in June. As a conference exhibitor for the Coca-Cola 5by20 programme I made a point of visiting the other stands, and that’s where I met Sarah.
“As a trainer and facilitator, I know how important it is to have stimulating tools and resources that create opportunities for conversation and creativity, needless to say when Sarah showed me her array of business focused strategy cards and how they worked, I was hooked.”
Frame-O’Hare’s cards will now be used for the launch of the Dundee Coca-Cola 5by20 mentoring programme where each mentor will receive a pack of Mentoring Strategy Cards as part of their tool-kit.
Last November, Frame-O’Hare won Member of Achievement and Most Enterprising Business at the Moray Business Women Annual Awards.
In September she will attend the Association of Scottish Business Women Annual Awards to find out if she has won the award for Most Enterprising Business for the whole of Scotland.
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