Sarah Haderi

Founder & CEO @Frontiere Istanbul

🔥 Startup Founder💸 MarketingProducerBusiness Owner💼 C-level Executive👍 Sales & BizDevAssistant EditorSound designer🐦 DesignSinger🧨 Consulting🎥 Entertainment🧮 Education✨ Business OwnerPresentation DesignerCommunications ManagerPR ManagerContent ManagerInfluencer Marketing ManagerDigital Ads ManagerEvent ProducerCreative ProducerMarketing Analytics ManagerProduct DesignerGraphic DesignerBrand DesignerMotion DesignerArtist ManagementLife CoachingSales ManagerBusiness Development ManagerExecutive CoachVideo EditorArt ProducerBusiness AnalystCustomer ResearcherSoft Skills TrainerMarketing DirectorCEOAdvisorFounder

With a diverse background in food and beverage industry, I have established myself as a founder with a unique passion for the art of hospitality. In my early years, my training has consisted mostly of learning languages. As I learned Italian, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, many times I even worked as a translator, sometimes also simultaneous translating in big audiences. As the saying goes, language is the road map of a culture and it has always served to me as a guide to understanding the nuances of a particular culture and provided a path to deeper cultural understanding and appreciation. The second major training I had in those years was managing large group of people. I volunteered four years as an animator- teacher for younger children. Volunteering offered me opportunities to develop new skills, gain valuable experience and helped me build self-confidence and self-esteem by giving me the opportunity to make a difference and feel valued. My first job has been in sales when I was 16 years old. I continued to work in that area for a few years where I received a lot of marketing training. That chapter made me realise that marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It’s the art of creating genuine customer value. Gradually my ambition to create my own business grew. I wrote my first project when I was 20 and I opened the first Bed & Breakfast in Albania, rewarded as Best New Business of the Year by the Minister of Tourism and Culture. Lowen Inn Bed & Breakfast received three years in a row the reward Guest Review Awards with rating of 9.4. Owning a B & B helped me develop a range of skills, from hospitality and customer service to financial management and problem solving. While running my first business I participated in many hospitality conferences representing my country as well as my brand, such as IHIF Berlin, MIPIM Cannes, IHTF Amsterdam, ICTH Barcelona etc. Overall, participating in hospitality conferences provided valuable networking opportunities, exposure to n