In order for businesswomen in Guyana to grow they need to see each other as partners and collaborate instead of just competitors and to “look at the bigger picture of things and not be small minded,” Lucia L Desir says.
“We also have to get to a stage where you overlook petty things. You cannot allow yourself to be caught up with the small things… Look to the bigger picture and find a way to work and see the bigger picture…,” she said to the Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview.
Desir, who along with Barbara Dublin-Peterkin, recently formed the Guyana Chapter of the Women Entrepreneurs’ Network Caribbean (WEN Caribbean), hopes that their work with the network would see women in business moving forward and more scope for women in the world of business being created in another 20 years.
Desir, Managing Director of D & J Shipping Service and Dublin-Peterkin, CEO of B’s Beauty and Naturopathic Centre and Visions of Excellence Personal Development Centre, represented Guyana at the Caribbean Women Entrepreneurs’ Forum in Washington DC in March 2012, sponsored by the US Department of State’s Global Women’s Issues Division.
