Lee Sharma is the CEO of Simply Do Ideas; a unique and innovative online platform that provides a place for people with exciting enterprising ideas to take that spark of inspiration and turn it into a viable business plan. We first met Lee in May 2016, when Simply Do Ideas had just achieved IOEE Academy […]
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Spotlight On… Sean O’Tuama
Sean O’Tuama is the CEO and founder of Firemole; a Cork-based company that has developed a safety gadget that warns people if their electrical devices, such as mobile phone chargers, are getting dangerously hot, by sounding an inbuilt alarm. In only a year, Sean has gone from ‘idea stage’ to viable business, even passing on […]
Rocketeer Enterprise brings Digital Learning to Education
Rocketeer Enterprise is an IOEE Enterprise Academy on a mission – to change the world, one entrepreneur at a time. Rocketeer specialises in understanding how to benefit from being in the midst of the current digital and technology revolution, through supporting educational organisations, start-up companies, and wannabe entrepreneurs to succeed in the field of enterprise. […]
IOEE Academy launches pioneering school careers programme in Dorset
The Samee Project is a unique and inspirational social enterprise that aims to promote self-employment and freelance working as viable career options to young people in school education, and the organisation secured its status as an IOEE Academy in February this year. Four months on, we caught up with its CEO and founder, Sam Everard, […]
Not Just Travel: Taking the leap into self-employment
Anne King is a Personal Travel Consultant and runs her own business through Not Just Travel; one of the leading and fastest-growing travel agencies in the UK. After working as a PA for 20 years, Anne’s life took a turn on a family holiday in Florida that lead her to change her career, buying into […]
Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Written by Professor Paul Jones, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Deputy Director, Coventry University A frequent criticism of the academic community is the lack of value and relevance of their work towards the business community. Academic research is often criticised as being overly theoretical and lacking meaning for business world practioners. This criticism does have some […]
Enterprisingly Me
‘Enterprisingly Me’ is a monthly feature where you can follow my entrepreneurial adventures. Names have been changed to protect the innocent but everything you read really happened. I hope my story inspires you to take your first steps, or if you already have, then it lets you know you’re not on your own. Starting and […]
New IOEE Enterprise Academy brings enterprise thinking to voluntary sector
Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (CVS) is an IOEE Enterprise Academy with premises in the heart of the city. Business Development Manager Jules Sebelin talked to us about her organisation’s work and how its fresh IOEE status is shifting perceptions of how entrepreneurial thinking can create impact in the third sector. Nottingham Community and Voluntary […]
NOVUS embraces enterprise learning with IOEE and SFEDI Awards
David Morgan is Enterprise Partnership Lead at Novus, an IOEE Academy delivering SFEDI Awards qualifications. Working in more than 60 prisons located across five English regions, Novus deliver a diverse range of high-quality qualifications, preparing people to find employment upon their release and thrive in the world of work. The SFEDI Awards enterprise and employability […]
IOEE and EEUK launch first survey together
Working in partnership, during March the IOEE and Enterprise Educators UK conducted a comprehensive survey of each organisations’ membership. We asked this diverse set of individuals for both their views and their experiences as enterprise education professionals. Here, we’re sharing the survey’s most pertinent findings with you. Enterprise Educators UK is a national network of […]