ENTREPRENEUR BIZ TIPS: Entrepreneurship: A Plus (+) Leading to Quality of Life: Katerina Sarri at TEDxThessaloniki

Here’s Great Tip: Entrepreneurship: A Plus (+) Leading to Quality of Life: Katerina Sarri at TEDxThessaloniki

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Have you ever wondered what entrepreneurship is or what it means to be an
entrepreneur? What does Steve Jobs share in common with the young teacher
from a remote Cretan village Aggelos Patsias? For Katerina Sarri
entrepreneurship is not only about numbers. Αs a survey among people with
movement disabilities has shown, being entrepreneurs allowed them a better quality of life, higher self-esteem and self-satisfaction, and earlier adaptation, compared to those working in terms of hetero-employment. By shifting our view of entrepreneurship from the economic domain to a philosophy of life, Sarri supports, we can infuse the values that are inherent to entrepreneurship to our everyday life, even in the way we raise our children.

Associate Professor in Business Administration at the University of Western Macedonia, Katerina Sarri has devoted her academic career on the study of female entrepreneurship. Along with her academic activity, Katerina is national coordinator of the international programme for the development of young entrepreneurship in Greece, a member of the Associate Board of the NGO on women employment and entrepreneurship “Ergani”, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the General Secretariat for Gender Equality. Having studied at the Universities of Thessaloniki, Birmingham and Macedonia, Katerina has rich teaching experience while she has also worked as a business consultant. Her recent work includes a co-authored book titled “Female entrepreneurship: A view of the Greek reality”, whereby she posits major issues at the same time proposing strategies for female entrepreneurship in Greece. Her writings include publications in leading Greek and foreign journals, while she is also a member of the editorial board and a reviewer in international journals.

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