Programme Leader Fashion Business, Istituto Marangoni School of Fashion, London, UK

Sennait is a highly professional and motivated member of the Higher Education and UK fashion business community – possessing a wide range of communication, marketing and team building skills. She is currently Programme Leader Fashion Business Istituto Marangoni School of Fashion London. Known to be forward thinking and creative among her peers, she possesses excellent presentation skills and is eager to develop new projects. 

With 12 years of experience within the fashion industry in buying and wholesaling with Burberry, Matthew Williamson, Pringle and Joseph, she moved into teaching in 2015. As the Academic Course Leader of the BA Business, BA Buying and BA Communication courses, creating a culture of innovation is a key pillar on her business courses that she runs and manages. In June 2021, Sennait won the Italian Chamber of Commerce award “Talent Under 40”. In September 2022, Sennait had her first TED X talk on SDG n.5 by UN (topic of gender equality and women empowerment).

Sennait firmly believes innovation comes from teamwork and encourages her team and students to share different ideas and perspectives, including innovation in coursework and applying it to real industry problems. She has collaborated with key incubators, such as Startupbootcamp, Limiteless Innovation and Techitalia, providing mentorship for the incubator programme of the Fall 2022 class of entrepreneurs.

In 2023 she published her new book on responsible business in fashion: Responsible Business in fashion in practice, by Routledge. She was nominated as leader of Change from the first edition of The Black carpet Awards, focused on Diversity and inclusion in Italy and awarded the Positive Leadership award in Jan 2023 by the Italian Embassy.