Author, TEDx Speaker, Entrepreneur and the Founder Of Like Minded Females, Sonya Barlow

Sonya Barlow is a TEDx speaker, diversity coach, author of Unprepared to Entrepreneur, Linkedin Changemaker 2021, and host of The Everyday Hustle (BBC Asian Network). Sonya is also the founder of Like Minded Females (LMF Network CIC), a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to empowering and educating women and minorities in the IT, business, and digital industries.

When the COVID-19 epidemic hit at the start of 2020, Sonya Barlow found herself jobless. Like-Minded Females Network (LMF) was founded by the London-based award-winning diversity campaigner and author in 2018 as a small initiative to bring together women from various backgrounds for career and confidence chats over brunch meetings.
LMF provides mentoring, community forums, and corporate consulting services to help educate and promote underrepresented individuals in the workplace. It also focuses on bridging the skills gap and developing inclusive cultures to address the problems women face in negotiating the workplace. Even during the pandemic time, Sonia led over 200 seminars and built the LMF Network to a global social group of over 50,000 women on her own.

She is introducing an ambassador programme to allow people from all around the world to participate, as they presently serve 84 markets, including India, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico.
Sonya is also the founder of her own diversity consulting firm, where she focuses on inclusive cultures, change management, and workplace confidence. Sonya is respected for her public speaking abilities, which include giving two TEDxTalks, organizing workshops for the United Nations General Assembly, and delivering important comments at European conferences.

Sonya has been named a Rising Star (2017), a UK Tech Business Woman of the Year Finalist (2018), a Pitchfanzine Winner (2019), and a finalist in the TechWomen200 (2019). She is passionate about fostering inclusive cultures, teaching life skills, and instilling confidence in others so that they can achieve personal achievement. Her Ted talk, “Failures Come Before Resilience,” is now available on YouTube at Sonyabarlowuk.