From Bedroom Startup to Boardroom Influence - Theresa Wallace on 30 Years of Lettings Change

About this episode

Theresa Wallace shares her journey from a bedroom startup to becoming a Compliance Director and Chair of The Lettings Industry Council.

This week on The Viking Chats, I’m joined by someone who has quite literally grown alongside the modern private rented sector - Theresa Wallace, Compliance Director at Savills and Chair of The Lettings Industry Council (TLIC). Releasing in the week of International Women’s Day and on the eve of annual WIEA event, this episode couldn’t be more timely. Theresa’s journey begins not in a corporate boardroom - but in a bedroom. In the early 1990s, after converting properties with her husband ...

People in this episode

Guest: Theresa Wallace

Topics covered

• property
• lettings
• women in business
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• International Women’s Day
• WIEA event
• private rented sector

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