Leona Watson, owner of Cheeky Food Group, a company that uses the fun and interaction of cooking together to provide team building, conference and client entertaining activities across Australia and New Zealand.
Leona Watson is the owner of Cheeky Food Group, a company that uses the fun and interaction of cooking together to provide team building, conference and client entertaining activities across Australia and New Zealand.
In this video interview we discuss:
How Cheeky Food Group makes team building fun
How her large-company experience helped her start her business with almost no budget
How to leverage in business, step back and delegate
How to manage the mood in your business by managing yourself
and more
About Leona Watson
Leona was originally a marketer, working with Microsoft in the UK, Optus, CBA, Volvo, Virgin Mobile, and ING Direct, managing budgets of $15M+. Then Leona launched her ‘food’ career as a Cook on a charter yacht often cooking at a 45 degree angle!
In 2001, she founded Cheeky, using the fun and interaction of cooking together to provide team building, conference and client entertaining activities across Australia and New Zealand. Leona throws over 500 cooking parties every year enticing groups of 7 to 700 people to cook, laugh and sizzle together.
From a mere $5,000 investment to a $3,500,000+ company with big plans for the future, Leona has won the Australian BusinessWomen’s Award for Outstanding Business Growth in 07 and is a Board member to the Entrepreneur’s Organisation. She also presents professional motivational sessions.
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