There's a chance to discover if you are a natural born leader or someone who has the potential when one of the country's top business women addresses the Salisbury Big Business Event.

Lara Morgan is most widely known for building her own global leading brand licensing business, Pacific Direct over the course of seventeen years before selling a majority share for holding of the company for £20 million.

She is the guest speaker at the 90 Minutes lunch event being hosted by Salisbury Chamber of Commerce, on Wednesday, April 20th. It's an event open to all who wish to purchase tickets. The Chamber and the Salisbury Journal is also sponsoring free places for Young Chamber members and some aspiring youngsters from the city's schools.

Lara describes herself as a proud mother of three, who is determined to be a voice for growth enterprise support as well as driving sales pride in Britain through Companyshortcuts.

Lara is a world-class and high impact, memorable and much liked speaker with a practical open and approachable style.

She has her own investment portfolio backing both her own ideas, but also investing in driving great British innovations such as Company Shortcuts, Dryrobe, KitBrix and GATE8-luggage. Scentered, for mood and mindset management, Spiezia a 100% organic health and wellbeing brand and Lara’s legacy business, Activbod (a unique range of personal care sports recovery products) make up her portfolio of interests. Lara invests in products that genuinely improve the lives of others and as a particular desire to raise the heart rate of the nation.

She is particularly interested in helping accelerate companies fast growth and motivating fast-growth and proven business-owners to set higher leadership goals. She is a catalyst ambassador for UKTI, helping ambitious businesses export.

A regular commentator on current affairs and business issues with Sky and BBC News, Lara has appeared on BBC2’s ‘The Apprentice: You’re Fired’.

She has been a finalist in Ernst and Young Entrepreneur 3 times and was a finalist in the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year Award. She is the author of the recently published Amazon best selling business book, ‘More Balls Than Most’ and was a co-founder of Start Up Britain. Taking it all in her stride, Lara also manages to stay fit currently resting having come 10th in the world in 2011 World Triathlon Championships.

To book tickets go to Salisburybigbusiness.co.uk