GETTING TO KNOW YOU
Getting to Know
Janine Garner
What inspired you to start
your business? What are your
goals and values?
My corporate journey is not
uncommon – I worked like a
maniac to get to where I wanted
to be - at the top of a highly
coveted corporate sector. What I
found when I got there, however
was that although the spirit for
commercial collaboration may
have been present…as the old
saying goes, the corporate flesh
was weak. After 20 years in
corporate, I came to a realization.
If I wanted to surround myself with
the kind of thought leadership,
diversity, knowledge and idea
sharing that I knew was needed
in commercial life I had to strike
out on my own. This was how
the firstly the LBDGroup was
born. There was a niche for a
community of like-minded, results
oriented businesswomen who
wanted to interact commercially
at a level that wasn’t currently
available – either within their
own corporations or with other
entrepreneurs in their own sectors.
The growth of LBDGroup
and the level of