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Motivational speaker
Entrepreneur
Business expert
Social campaigner
Princes Trust backer
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Sahar Hashemi, Iclif - May 16, 2014
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Sahar Hashemi OBE

Co-founder of Coffee Republic and Skinny Candy, UK Government Scale Up Taskforce, advisor for ECB Hundred Cricket, social change campaigner, global keynote speaker, bestselling author

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Sahar Hashemi OBE is such a huge business success she’s been named alongside internet inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and iPhone designer Sir Jonathan Ive as the world’s top original thinkers.
Sahar, a former lawyer, changed the way the nation consumed coffee and brought the first US style coffee bar to Britain. It didn’t take long for Coffee Republic to become a soaraway success, boasting 110 bars and a turnover of £30m.
Sahar’s entrepreneurial drive also took her inside Harvey Nichols, Selfridges, Top Shop and Waitrose where her sought after low-fat, sugar free sweets and chocolates called Skinny Candy were sold.
Sahar Hashemi is now a hugely in demand public speaker with extraordinary knowledge and understanding of the highly competitive business world. Her bestselling books are glowing endorsements of Sahar’s unique skills.
Her book ‘Start Up Forever, How To Build A Start Up Culture In A Big Company’ was The Financial Times Business Book of The Month. And her book ‘Anyone Can Do it’, which reveals how she turned Coffee Republic from an idea into a revolutionary brand, got to number 1 on the Amazon business chart – and won praise from the Institute of Directors and The Princes Trust.
She has co-chaired the government’s Scale Up Taskforce which ensures small and medium businesses get their voices heard in Westminster.
With a genuine passion for social change Sahar also works to get homeless people involved in running coffee shops. And she even finds time to sit on the advisory board of the ECB Hundred Cricket Competition.
Her string of extraordinary achievements saw Sahar appointed an OBE for services to the UK economy and to charity.

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