Taking ambition to the next level

As women entrepreneurs, we all have ambitions for ourselves and our businesses. For some, that ambition could be to build a business that can take care of ourselves and our families, and create a legacy of opportunities for our children in the future. For others, that ambition takes the form of fulfilling a personal passion for creativity, providing a vehicle to design beautiful products for the world to buy. But there is another group of women entrepreneurs for whom ambition means something very different. These women are driven to keep building, innovating, growing, diversifying - they constantly push boundaries, looking to create the next big thing that can change the world and people’s lives. They have ambitions beyond their own businesses and are deeply driven to achieve success in all aspects of their entrepreneur journeys. This type of woman entrepreneur may be smaller in number but their impact is significant, as they are leaders who inspire others to follow in their footsteps. Dan Sullivan, a leading global business coach and founder of The Strategic Coach, says: “I estimate that for every 400 entrepreneurs in the world, one of them will become an ambition entrepreneur who will continually create entirely new kinds of products and services, new approaches, new ideas, and new strategies, which will then be utilized by the other 399 entrepreneurs for the rest of their careers.” So the question is, are you simply ambitious, or are you an ambition entrepreneur?