Sahar Hashemi, founded Coffee Republic, the UK\u2019s first US style coffee bar chain with her brother and built it into one of the UK\u2019s most recognised high street brands, and one of the first players in the \u2018coffee revolution\u2019 that transformed the UK high street.<\/p>\n
In 2019 Sahar published her latest book Startup Forever. She explains the purpose of the book. \u201cIn my work, I\u2019m always asked the same questions: \u2022 \u2018How can we grow big but act small?\u2019 \u2022 \u2018How can we encourage innovative thinking and drive growth by finding different and new ways of doing things?\u2019 \u2022 \u2018As we face disruptive change, how can we be more agile? More resilient? Less stuck in our ways?\u2019 \u2022 \u2018How can I get my people to think outside the box, to experiment, and take the initiative?\u2019 \u2022 \u2018How can I get everyone in the company to think more like entrepreneurs?\u2019 The ten shifts in the book are my answers to these questions. The solutions I have picked up on my journey are, in fact, strikingly common sense. They are simple shifts in how to approach everyday work with an entrepreneurial mind-set together with day-to-day actions anyone can take to put this more entrepreneurial mind-set to work.<\/p>\n
Sahar left the day to day management of Coffee Republic in 2001 and published a bestselling book called Anyone Can Do It- building Coffee Republic from our kitchen table, which has been translated into 6 languages and is 2nd highest selling book on entrepreneurship on Amazon after Richard Branson\u2019s book.<\/p>\n
In 2011 Sahar Hashemi was nominated by Director magazine as one of the Top 10 Original Thinkers, taking her place alongside individuals such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and Jonathan Ives, Vice-President of Design at Apple and designer of the iPod. It praised her view that, \u201cEntrepreneurially minded talent shouldn’t have to leave large corporations in order to achieve fulfilment. Entrepreneurial behaviour, including ideas like bootstrapping, prototyping and celebrating failure, can help turn stuffy corporations into creative environments. They can also transform automatons into valued, engaged employees\u201d.<\/p>\n
In June 2012 Sahar was awarded an OBE in the Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours list \u201cfor services to the UK economy and to charity\u201d. Sahar was named \u2018Pioneer to the life of the nation\u2019 by Her Majesty The Queen and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos. She is a mentor to Change Please, a charity that provides pop-up coffee bars run by homeless people, giving them the help and support they need to turn their lives around.<\/p>\n
In her speeches Sahar outlines the habits that are the basis of Startup Forever which encourage entrepreneurial behaviour in organisations of all types and sizes. These habits will make companies nimbler, more creative, more customer-centric more resilient and better places to work. She ignites the audience with a \u2018can do\u2019 spirit and the tools and habits to \u2018make it happen\u2019<\/p>\n
Sahar Hashemi, founded Coffee Republic, the UK\u2019s first US style coffee bar chain with her brother and built it into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43628,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[],"speaker-category":[16607,16604,16593,16591,16601],"speaker-topic":[16642,16660,16619,16632,16644],"speaker-type":[16667],"speaker-gender":[16669],"speaker-language":[16572],"class_list":["post-51784","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker-category-economy-politics","speaker-category-entrepreneurship","speaker-category-globalisation","speaker-category-leadership","speaker-category-tedx-speakers","speaker-topic-branding","speaker-topic-change-management","speaker-topic-event-happening","speaker-topic-innovations","speaker-topic-motivation-strategy","speaker-type-keynote-speaker","speaker-gender-woman","speaker-language-english"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n