Business Management.
Birthlight Teaching Ltd - Company Director.
123 Soleil, a French Toddler Playgroup in Cambridge - Trustee
Her studies have taken her to the UK, Spain and Uruguay, providing her with experiences that have helped shape her understanding of different cultures and working environments. After graduating, she worked for various international companies in Monaco, Glasgow and London, dealing with a diverse range of products, from marble and granite to children’s toys. A move to Cambridge and her first pregnancy shifted her priorities, as she focused on the birth of her beautiful girl who was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate. Sylvie was introduced to Birthlight soon after, and was grateful for the opportunity to work part-time while looking after her daughter.
Now a mother of 2, Sylvie is Company Director for Birthlight Teaching Ltd, the trading arm of Birthlight Trust. Working with Birthlight allows her to enjoy a healthy family/work balance and contribute her organisational skills. She ensures care and fairness for Birthlight's members and trainees. Her key role within the company is the coordination of Birthlight teacher training courses worldwide which have increased exponentially over the past decade now spreading over 4 continents.
She was a chairman and now trustee of an association called 123 Soleil for French speaking families living in Cambridgeshire , the aim being the development of the French culture within families based in Cambridge so that bilingual children and their parents create a bilingual network and that the children can adapt themselves easily in both countries.
Reading, making craft with children, singing and swimming. The education of bilingual children is one of her main interests.
Sylvie feels very privileged to have learned to swim at the age of 6 in the Mediterranean Sea. The freedom experienced while swimming in the sea is very powerful and re-energising, and the sea remains an important influence on her life.
