Jo Fairley

GREEN & BLACK’S CO-FOUNDER, SPEAKER AND LEADING ENTREPRENEUR

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Jo Fairley writes regularly for Telegraph Online, among her media portfolio. Here are some of the articles she's written about women and business and/or entrepreneurialism, appearing under the ‘Wonder Women’ experts section. Simply click on the article title below to read. Others can be sourced at the Telegraph.   

Why you should think about women's achievements today (your own included)

Construction needs to ditch its macho image and nail the gender imbalance fast

Women do need to man-up and stop using the word 'just'

High-achieving women have these 6 personality traits. Do you?

Mark Zuckerberg is right - personal goals are great. So what should you be striving for?

My Bizhub: Inspiring Entrepreneurs: an interview with Green & Black’s co-founder Jo Fairley

Digital detox baths: are we finally ready to be cleansed of our tech addiction?

How to have a sense of humour in the office (even when everything's gone wrong)
 

TWITTER

  • Josephine Fairley
    Blushing! But WHAT a great audience!!! https://t.co/eSKcjkzryW
    about 2 months ago
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    AMAZING setting for #WestWomen2018 Awards tonight - can’t wait to hear their stories and inspire the incredible wom… https://t.co/oVSNwJu9h4
    about 2 months ago

INSTAGRAM

Who needs #sudoku when you have kitchen tiles to lay out for the builder finishing off your kitchen refresh...? Thank you @theclockworkcrowhastings for the fab tiles! #shoplocal
Who needs #sudoku when you have kitchen tiles to lay out for the builder finishing off your kitchen refresh...? Thank you @theclockworkcrowhastings for the fab tiles! #shoplocal
Was somehow not expecting THAT on our cross-Hyde Park #saturday walk #christo - it’s HUUUUUUGE! A must-see (I ❤️ Christo)
Was somehow not expecting THAT on our cross-Hyde Park #saturday walk #christo - it’s HUUUUUUGE! A must-see (I ❤️ Christo)
SWIPE FOR MOUTHWATERING PICS! Chefs’ toques off to you @skyegyngell and @jeremyleeqv for turning up to cook at the fantastic Fork to Fork festival at Kensal Rise’s Ark Franklin Primary Academy in aid of The Open Air Classroom Project to teach kids about food and gardening... It’s still open till 6 today (16/6) - entry £10 - and in addition to food from @spring_ldn and @quovadissoho there are stalls for @dishoom @restaurantmoro @ottolenghi @theledbury @homesliceldn @hixrestaurants @oddonos_gelati and SO many more... #notyouraverageschoolfete
SWIPE FOR MOUTHWATERING PICS! Chefs’ toques off to you @skyegyngell and @jeremyleeqv for turning up to cook at the fantastic Fork to Fork festival at Kensal Rise’s Ark Franklin Primary Academy in aid of The Open Air Classroom Project to teach kids about food and gardening... It’s still open till 6 today (16/6) - entry £10 - and in addition to food from @spring_ldn and @quovadissoho there are stalls for @dishoom @restaurantmoro @ottolenghi @theledbury @homesliceldn @hixrestaurants @oddonos_gelati and SO many more... #notyouraverageschoolfete
The beautiful and clever @atlantabartlett - who has more style in her little finger than most of us can dream of having in our entire being - opened her new @paleandinterestingstore shop on #landgate in #rye this evening. SWIPE for pictures of her wares, her interior design projects as the utterly fabulous, airy fabrics her mother @sashawaddell has sourced in India which are going to be all over every interiors magazine, I predict, in the blink of an eye. The loveliest end to a long and demanding week... #TGIF
The beautiful and clever @atlantabartlett - who has more style in her little finger than most of us can dream of having in our entire being - opened her new @paleandinterestingstore shop on #landgate in #rye this evening. SWIPE for pictures of her wares, her interior design projects as the utterly fabulous, airy fabrics her mother @sashawaddell has sourced in India which are going to be all over every interiors magazine, I predict, in the blink of an eye. The loveliest end to a long and demanding week... #TGIF
#nofilter - just a VERY pretty sunset. My mother used to use the phrase ‘sky-blue-pink’ and this makes me think of her...
#nofilter - just a VERY pretty sunset. My mother used to use the phrase ‘sky-blue-pink’ and this makes me think of her...
Lovely Sambucus nigra ‘Black Lace’ #inmygardentoday - love the purple leaves and apparently you can make pink #elderflower cordial with them but I don’t think I can bear to cut them off (and anyway I am kitchenless while the cupboard doors and worktops get a makeover for the first time in 17 years...) #summerflowers🌸
Lovely Sambucus nigra ‘Black Lace’ #inmygardentoday - love the purple leaves and apparently you can make pink #elderflower cordial with them but I don’t think I can bear to cut them off (and anyway I am kitchenless while the cupboard doors and worktops get a makeover for the first time in 17 years...) #summerflowers🌸
I think tonight was my most special work night ever (and there have been a few...) SWIPE FOR YUMMY PIX! To celebrate the launch of the stunning Eau de Citron Noir fragrance - based on an incredible black Iranian lemon - @hermes arranged for a group of us to have a pasta demo from the incredible cook (& author of one of my favourite cookbooks, A Table in Venice) @skyemcalpine at her home. Thank you Skye for your gracious hospitality, beautiful food - see before-and-after of the lemon meringue cake - and making me feel like I might, one day, actually MAKE pasta. Flowers and lemons everywhere - two of my favourite things... #luckyluckyme (Thank you too to @clairelgoodwin for making it happen - and so great to have @libertylndngirl and @clairebrayford as my dinner companions! Masterful placement...)
I think tonight was my most special work night ever (and there have been a few...) SWIPE FOR YUMMY PIX! To celebrate the launch of the stunning Eau de Citron Noir fragrance - based on an incredible black Iranian lemon - @hermes arranged for a group of us to have a pasta demo from the incredible cook (& author of one of my favourite cookbooks, A Table in Venice) @skyemcalpine at her home. Thank you Skye for your gracious hospitality, beautiful food - see before-and-after of the lemon meringue cake - and making me feel like I might, one day, actually MAKE pasta. Flowers and lemons everywhere - two of my favourite things... #luckyluckyme (Thank you too to @clairelgoodwin for making it happen - and so great to have @libertylndngirl and @clairebrayford as my dinner companions! Masterful placement...)
We had our raised veg bed raised another brick or two with reclaimed bricks, and the paths between made safer (mindful of opening the garden twice this summer) - much easier to weed, plant & keep tidy. However both of us ordered #lettuce plugs to grow on (from @rocket.gardens who are GREAT) - alongside the potatoes, radishes, corn, parsley, dandelions (under careful control, leaves only), parsley, dill, radicchio, tomatoes & courgettes (all the stuff that just tastes better from the garden). In about six weeks we are going to have a lettuce glut to end all lettuce gluts... #inmygarden #homegrown #freshfreshfresh #alitex
We had our raised veg bed raised another brick or two with reclaimed bricks, and the paths between made safer (mindful of opening the garden twice this summer) - much easier to weed, plant & keep tidy. However both of us ordered #lettuce plugs to grow on (from @rocket.gardens who are GREAT) - alongside the potatoes, radishes, corn, parsley, dandelions (under careful control, leaves only), parsley, dill, radicchio, tomatoes & courgettes (all the stuff that just tastes better from the garden). In about six weeks we are going to have a lettuce glut to end all lettuce gluts... #inmygarden #homegrown #freshfreshfresh #alitex
#nofilterjustreallygorgeous - my best #peony in my best #vase - happy Monday, everyone... #summerflowers🌸
#nofilterjustreallygorgeous - my best #peony in my best #vase - happy Monday, everyone... #summerflowers🌸
Thank you @mammawalton (who also took this picture) for these fabulous lightweight cross-body bags made with some of my vintage fabrics. Sally made me one of these about eight years ago and it’s my favourite bag - just right for a change purse, a credit card, water bottle, keys & a book. The original finally fell apart - I basically loved and used it to death, in equal measure. So happy with replacements (which all go with the blue I basically live in, down here by the seaside) #maker #vintagefabric #stitching #simplethings #carryabag
Thank you @mammawalton (who also took this picture) for these fabulous lightweight cross-body bags made with some of my vintage fabrics. Sally made me one of these about eight years ago and it’s my favourite bag - just right for a change purse, a credit card, water bottle, keys & a book. The original finally fell apart - I basically loved and used it to death, in equal measure. So happy with replacements (which all go with the blue I basically live in, down here by the seaside) #maker #vintagefabric #stitching #simplethings #carryabag
Lovely visit from (almost) the entire Holden clan - Patrick, Becky, Will, James, Harry, Barley, Leo, Oisin, Uma, Alice (and her bump), Tom & Rosie - and so impressed that ALL of them came in for a fantastic swim. (Mind you, Patrick and Becky break the ice on their farm in Wales to swim so it must have seemed positively tropical...) Also a great day to christen the new tabletops for our courtyard table (made brilliantly by @stewart_walton and his @harborfurniture project) with much toast & many #croissants #oldfriends
Lovely visit from (almost) the entire Holden clan - Patrick, Becky, Will, James, Harry, Barley, Leo, Oisin, Uma, Alice (and her bump), Tom & Rosie - and so impressed that ALL of them came in for a fantastic swim. (Mind you, Patrick and Becky break the ice on their farm in Wales to swim so it must have seemed positively tropical...) Also a great day to christen the new tabletops for our courtyard table (made brilliantly by @stewart_walton and his @harborfurniture project) with much toast & many #croissants #oldfriends
When your husband remembers on the day with a sinking heart that he has a speech to give in London, what are you to do with a Saturday that’s gone pear-shaped? Sneak off to the Gin & Rum Festival @sussexcoast Coast College, of course. Been wanting to taste these @schweppesgb new tonics - and they are surprisingly good... (Not so sure about the violet gin - very synthetic, whereas the tonics aren’t. Also discovered the reason I loathe the normal Schweppes tonic is that it contains Aspartame...) #craftgin #ginandtonic #chinchin
When your husband remembers on the day with a sinking heart that he has a speech to give in London, what are you to do with a Saturday that’s gone pear-shaped? Sneak off to the Gin & Rum Festival @sussexcoast Coast College, of course. Been wanting to taste these @schweppesgb new tonics - and they are surprisingly good... (Not so sure about the violet gin - very synthetic, whereas the tonics aren’t. Also discovered the reason I loathe the normal Schweppes tonic is that it contains Aspartame...) #craftgin #ginandtonic #chinchin
What a way to display brooches!!! Just one of the MANY tempting stalls @wealdentimes Summer Fair at Hole Park yesterday, which is still on today (Saturday 9th). There are SO many enterprising women of Kent, Sussex and beyond showing their wares... (And lovely to see you @charliekayetyler - with your eye-popping goodies! Hope it goes well.)
What a way to display brooches!!! Just one of the MANY tempting stalls @wealdentimes Summer Fair at Hole Park yesterday, which is still on today (Saturday 9th). There are SO many enterprising women of Kent, Sussex and beyond showing their wares... (And lovely to see you @charliekayetyler - with your eye-popping goodies! Hope it goes well.)
Completely wonderful things, discovered at the fantastic @roullierwhite in East Dulwich where @theperfumesociety had a great event last night with fab Colognes brand @cadentia_uk (Roullier White is an incredibly well-edited homewares & fragrance store - a real joy to shop in). I LOVE these wooden boards - called Parole Boards because they are made (beautifully) by prisoners, giving them a skill transferable to life outside. The big one (‘Big Ronnie’) is about three feet long and coming my way if I can figure out how to get it on the train...! And the pizza boards are very clever. (SWIPE for the bread board, with its crumb tray.) Heart-warming stuff...
Completely wonderful things, discovered at the fantastic @roullierwhite in East Dulwich where @theperfumesociety had a great event last night with fab Colognes brand @cadentia_uk (Roullier White is an incredibly well-edited homewares & fragrance store - a real joy to shop in). I LOVE these wooden boards - called Parole Boards because they are made (beautifully) by prisoners, giving them a skill transferable to life outside. The big one (‘Big Ronnie’) is about three feet long and coming my way if I can figure out how to get it on the train...! And the pizza boards are very clever. (SWIPE for the bread board, with its crumb tray.) Heart-warming stuff...
Just-picked #oakleaf lettuce and rocket from the garden tonight - these leaves were too pretty to chop so we just dipped them in #vinaigrette (so happy to be eating dinner outside every night now) #greens #saladdays #summerfoodi
Just-picked #oakleaf lettuce and rocket from the garden tonight - these leaves were too pretty to chop so we just dipped them in #vinaigrette (so happy to be eating dinner outside every night now) #greens #saladdays #summerfoodi
Today my funny, clever, talented mother Vivienne June Powell-Richards Fairley (yup, a mouthful) would have been 90. WHAT a celebration we’d have had. But sadly, so sadly, she only made it to 56. She was a potter and an artist and most of all a wonderful, silly, fun mum to us lot. This is my favourite picture of her (and of us), in which she’s wrangling me and my two brothers (and pregnant with another), while cuddling an elephant - back when they let you do that at London Zoo!!!! Happy Birthday, Mum ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Today my funny, clever, talented mother Vivienne June Powell-Richards Fairley (yup, a mouthful) would have been 90. WHAT a celebration we’d have had. But sadly, so sadly, she only made it to 56. She was a potter and an artist and most of all a wonderful, silly, fun mum to us lot. This is my favourite picture of her (and of us), in which she’s wrangling me and my two brothers (and pregnant with another), while cuddling an elephant - back when they let you do that at London Zoo!!!! Happy Birthday, Mum ❤️❤️❤️❤️
AMAZING view to make a heart soar - unexpected bonus of a fascinating afternoon judging @pwc_uk Business Awards was the view from their rooftop terrace #london #towerbridge #ilovemyjob
AMAZING view to make a heart soar - unexpected bonus of a fascinating afternoon judging @pwc_uk Business Awards was the view from their rooftop terrace #london #towerbridge #ilovemyjob
For around two months in summer the evening light sometimes bounces off the house opposite, back through the light fitting in our hall and makes rainbows in the walls and ceilings, making me feel six again with a childlike sense of wonder 🌈🌈🌈
For around two months in summer the evening light sometimes bounces off the house opposite, back through the light fitting in our hall and makes rainbows in the walls and ceilings, making me feel six again with a childlike sense of wonder 🌈🌈🌈
#nofilter - managed to prise myself away from the garden for a dip #itsstillfreezing
#nofilter - managed to prise myself away from the garden for a dip #itsstillfreezing
#goodmorning #nofilter - plan to spend a lot of time out there today...
#goodmorning #nofilter - plan to spend a lot of time out there today...
Who needs #sudoku when you have kitchen tiles to lay out for the builder finishing off your kitchen refresh...? Thank you @theclockworkcrowhastings for the fab tiles! #shoplocal Was somehow not expecting THAT on our cross-Hyde Park #saturday walk #christo - it’s HUUUUUUGE! A must-see (I ❤️ Christo) SWIPE FOR MOUTHWATERING PICS! Chefs’ toques off to you @skyegyngell and @jeremyleeqv for turning up to cook at the fantastic Fork to Fork festival at Kensal Rise’s Ark Franklin Primary Academy in aid of The Open Air Classroom Project to teach kids about food and gardening... It’s still open till 6 today (16/6) - entry £10 - and in addition to food from @spring_ldn and @quovadissoho there are stalls for @dishoom @restaurantmoro @ottolenghi @theledbury @homesliceldn @hixrestaurants @oddonos_gelati and SO many more... #notyouraverageschoolfete The beautiful and clever @atlantabartlett - who has more style in her little finger than most of us can dream of having in our entire being - opened her new @paleandinterestingstore shop on #landgate in #rye this evening. SWIPE for pictures of her wares, her interior design projects as the utterly fabulous, airy fabrics her mother @sashawaddell has sourced in India which are going to be all over every interiors magazine, I predict, in the blink of an eye. The loveliest end to a long and demanding week... #TGIF #nofilter - just a VERY pretty sunset. My mother used to use the phrase ‘sky-blue-pink’ and this makes me think of her... Lovely Sambucus nigra ‘Black Lace’ #inmygardentoday - love the purple leaves and apparently you can make pink #elderflower cordial with them but I don’t think I can bear to cut them off (and anyway I am kitchenless while the cupboard doors and worktops get a makeover for the first time in 17 years...) #summerflowers🌸 I think tonight was my most special work night ever (and there have been a few...) SWIPE FOR YUMMY PIX! To celebrate the launch of the stunning Eau de Citron Noir fragrance - based on an incredible black Iranian lemon - @hermes arranged for a group of us to have a pasta demo from the incredible cook (& author of one of my favourite cookbooks, A Table in Venice) @skyemcalpine at her home. Thank you Skye for your gracious hospitality, beautiful food - see before-and-after of the lemon meringue cake - and making me feel like I might, one day, actually MAKE pasta. Flowers and lemons everywhere - two of my favourite things... #luckyluckyme (Thank you too to @clairelgoodwin for making it happen - and so great to have @libertylndngirl and @clairebrayford as my dinner companions! Masterful placement...) We had our raised veg bed raised another brick or two with reclaimed bricks, and the paths between made safer (mindful of opening the garden twice this summer) - much easier to weed, plant & keep tidy. However both of us ordered #lettuce plugs to grow on (from @rocket.gardens who are GREAT) - alongside the potatoes, radishes, corn, parsley, dandelions (under careful control, leaves only), parsley, dill, radicchio, tomatoes & courgettes (all the stuff that just tastes better from the garden). In about six weeks we are going to have a lettuce glut to end all lettuce gluts... #inmygarden #homegrown #freshfreshfresh #alitex #nofilterjustreallygorgeous - my best #peony in my best #vase - happy Monday, everyone... #summerflowers🌸 Thank you @mammawalton (who also took this picture) for these fabulous lightweight cross-body bags made with some of my vintage fabrics. Sally made me one of these about eight years ago and it’s my favourite bag - just right for a change purse, a credit card, water bottle, keys & a book. The original finally fell apart - I basically loved and used it to death, in equal measure. So happy with replacements (which all go with the blue I basically live in, down here by the seaside) #maker #vintagefabric #stitching #simplethings #carryabag Lovely visit from (almost) the entire Holden clan - Patrick, Becky, Will, James, Harry, Barley, Leo, Oisin, Uma, Alice (and her bump), Tom & Rosie - and so impressed that ALL of them came in for a fantastic swim. (Mind you, Patrick and Becky break the ice on their farm in Wales to swim so it must have seemed positively tropical...) Also a great day to christen the new tabletops for our courtyard table (made brilliantly by @stewart_walton and his @harborfurniture project) with much toast & many #croissants #oldfriends When your husband remembers on the day with a sinking heart that he has a speech to give in London, what are you to do with a Saturday that’s gone pear-shaped? Sneak off to the Gin & Rum Festival @sussexcoast Coast College, of course. Been wanting to taste these @schweppesgb new tonics - and they are surprisingly good... (Not so sure about the violet gin - very synthetic, whereas the tonics aren’t. Also discovered the reason I loathe the normal Schweppes tonic is that it contains Aspartame...) #craftgin #ginandtonic #chinchin What a way to display brooches!!! Just one of the MANY tempting stalls @wealdentimes Summer Fair at Hole Park yesterday, which is still on today (Saturday 9th). There are SO many enterprising women of Kent, Sussex and beyond showing their wares... (And lovely to see you @charliekayetyler - with your eye-popping goodies! Hope it goes well.) Completely wonderful things, discovered at the fantastic @roullierwhite in East Dulwich where @theperfumesociety had a great event last night with fab Colognes brand @cadentia_uk (Roullier White is an incredibly well-edited homewares & fragrance store - a real joy to shop in). I LOVE these wooden boards - called Parole Boards because they are made (beautifully) by prisoners, giving them a skill transferable to life outside. The big one (‘Big Ronnie’) is about three feet long and coming my way if I can figure out how to get it on the train...! And the pizza boards are very clever. (SWIPE for the bread board, with its crumb tray.) Heart-warming stuff... Just-picked #oakleaf lettuce and rocket from the garden tonight - these leaves were too pretty to chop so we just dipped them in #vinaigrette (so happy to be eating dinner outside every night now) #greens #saladdays #summerfoodi Today my funny, clever, talented mother Vivienne June Powell-Richards Fairley (yup, a mouthful) would have been 90. WHAT a celebration we’d have had. But sadly, so sadly, she only made it to 56. She was a potter and an artist and most of all a wonderful, silly, fun mum to us lot. This is my favourite picture of her (and of us), in which she’s wrangling me and my two brothers (and pregnant with another), while cuddling an elephant - back when they let you do that at London Zoo!!!! Happy Birthday, Mum ❤️❤️❤️❤️ AMAZING view to make a heart soar - unexpected bonus of a fascinating afternoon judging @pwc_uk Business Awards was the view from their rooftop terrace #london #towerbridge #ilovemyjob For around two months in summer the evening light sometimes bounces off the house opposite, back through the light fitting in our hall and makes rainbows in the walls and ceilings, making me feel six again with a childlike sense of wonder 🌈🌈🌈 #nofilter - managed to prise myself away from the garden for a dip #itsstillfreezing #goodmorning #nofilter - plan to spend a lot of time out there today...

PODCAST

For the Guardian's Meet the Mentors podcast series Jo gave her tips to milliner Sahar Freemantle on how to make it big. Listen below...

For the Guardian's Meet the Mentors podcast series Jo gave her tips to milliner Sahar Freemantle on how to make it big. Listen below...

THE STORY
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