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BIANCA TUDOR
MANAGING PARTNER,
ELITE CONSULTING & COMMUNICATION
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT,
ELITE BUSINESS WOMEN AND
ELITE BUSINESS WOMEN INVESTMENT FUND
Women are a pillar of society
Bianca Tudor is managing partner at ELITE Consulting & Com-
succeeding, they have expertise, and they are building amazing,
munication; Founder & President of ELITE Business Women and
structured businesses. It was like a shout out to all the women
elite Business Women Investment Fund; member of the Advisory
out there. And I am happy to see that, after our campaign ended,
Board of Women in Business in the Danube Region; winner of
the number of women entrepreneurs in Romania grew from 30 to
1000 success stories – Global Exchange Contest 2016; and also
40 percent within the following four years.
Senator at the World Business Angels Investment Forum.
I am not claiming all the credit, but it was a lot of work. For our
With notable results and international plans, Bianca Tudor man-
events for example in Lisbon, London, Brussels, Rome, Milan, we
aged to inspire and change the approach of women in business,
partnered with embassies and organizations for entrepreneurs
giving them the confidence and courage to enter the entrepre-
and women entrepreneurs, with SMEs and with governments.
neurial field. Currently with a network of 12,000 companies, in
It was a lot of diplomacy and negotiation. For me, it was a huge
six countries in Europe, Elite Business Women is involved in new
effort to understand how to approach each partner and sector
global collaboration initiatives linking Europe and the Gulf coun-
and to bring them to the table and to have them on our side. It
tries. She talked with Dieter Brockmeyer, Co-founder of Diplo-
was a huge learning curve.
doing this? How can you talk about how to scale up a business
When you give an example people will follow, not all of them,
matic World Institute, where he serves as Director for Innovation;
for example, in the UK? They are so developed and what can you
but if only one will change their life I am happy to see that. This
about her vision for the world.
YOU RECENTLY RECEIVED A ROMANIAN
BUSINESS AWARD. WHAT WAS IT ABOUT AND
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU?
It is for our activity to help companies to scale up internationally,
for business internationalization. It is an activity we started
in 2017. With our campaign we have succeeded to promote
role models for businesswomen and how women are building
NOW YOU HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED FOR IT…
Yes, after many years. But after almost five years, Romania
understood the fact that we started this campaign to help companies.
It was nothing we did because it was a trend. When we
started it was not a trend. Many people asked me, why are you
bring and teach them how to build businesses and how to network.
Our business club, the Elite Business club in London, was
very well received in the UK. I am happy to see that even after so
many years they are writing and saying that they would love to
attend the next event.
YOU ALREADY MENTIONED THE NETWORKING,
BUT THAT IS ONLY ONE ASPECT. TELL US A BIT
MORE ABOUT YOUR COMPANY
is what I wanted to do in my life after having my first job in a
bank at 19 years, staying for seven years in the corporate field.
I started an ecosystem of entrepreneurial education, global collaboration,
in scaling up businesses of women. We are a pillar of
the society. If we are independent financially, then everything is
blooming around us.
We managed to bring tools to help women to grow their businesses
and the first one was a business. We managed to scale
up a lot of businesses in there. Another tool is the Elite Academy
Mentorship Program. We have mentors from multinational com-
companies. We started from zero and as a national company in
I started with the mission to create an educational ecosys-
panies who are bringing the structure, the procedures a company
Romania. We scaled up in Europe in the following year and we
tem. Because I have seen what major impact education had in
needs to grow. If you don’t have the foundation, very well struc-
gathered more than 3,000 women in Romania and 11 European
my own career and life. I was the first woman in my family to
tured, you cannot build something big on it.
countries.
graduate higher education not because my mother and grandmother
were not smart enough, but because they did not have
And when I started the company, I have seen many SMEs around
Within two years we have organized many conferences bringing
the opportunity to do it. After I had graduated with my Master’s
me collapsing because they were not able to have procedures,
together women who are succeeding in their businesses to make
degree, my mother, at 45 years of age, entered the university and
the structure and responsibility designed for every team mem-
sure they are heard. We wanted to make sure women know,
she managed to graduate.
ber. So Elite Mentorship Academy is something that I love. I am
even though we do not speak so much about women, they are
happy to see that corporations are helping SMEs grow.
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