12. Women's Spotlight: Tara Myshrall - Svetlana Ratnikova
On this month´s Women´s Spotlight, Tara speaks with Svetlana Ratnikova Founder and CEO of Immigrant Women in Business (IWB), Co-Founder of RTG Group Inc., Social Entrepreneur, Mentor, and Impact Investor. Her passion is positive change, big ideas, business growth combined with proven expertise to build and retain top-performing teams that bring exceptional value to organizations.
Svetlana’s drive is to make the world more compassionate, innovative, and sustainable. She is a motivator, communicator, relationship builder and developer of top talent. Svetlana also supports entrepreneurs of small to medium-sized businesses, leaders, and professionals to achieve their aspirations and bring their dreams to life. She enjoys working directly with young people to help them to explore enterprise as viable and sustainable paths to secure their socio-economic futures.
She truly believes that inspiring motivation is what gets the best from people and foster collaborative atmosphere that lets people to stretch their limits.
On the show, Svetlana speaks among other things, how the way she was raised gave her the leaderships skills she has today. Her father taught her discipline and always be “hungry”. She also tells how she started her first business in Russia and how was different than it would be in here.