Last month IOEE Chief Executive Sarah Trouten was invited to join Manchester Metropolitan University’s (MMU) Business School’s Business and Enterprise Advisory Board. The Business School, which gained the title of IOEE Centre of Excellence last year, is the central focus for the university’s ambition to deliver entrepreneurial enterprise education across faculties. As a board member, […]
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Starter for ten
Earlier this summer, SFEDI’s Executive Chair Ruth Lowbridge was invited to the Edinburgh offices of workspace collective Desk Union, where she shared her favourite top ten tips for success with the team. Desk Union is a young, dynamic enterprise that supplies workspace, meeting rooms, networking rooms and boardrooms to individual entrepreneurs and freelancers as well […]
Ten Top Tips for Business Success
As our Executive Chair Ruth Lowbridge says, there’s no job description for being a good business owner. To help you navigate the role successfully, here are her Top Ten Tips, gathered over two decades of business leadership. 1 Be yourself You will have your own style of ‘doing business’ so don’t be put off just […]
G is for Innovation
Albanian-born linguistics academic, design thinker and entrepreneur Julia Goga Cooke runs GConsultancy Innovation, a self-described ‘eco-system of experienced innovation managers, journalists, communicators, trainers, facilitators, designers and consultants.’ GConsultancy, which is the end result of Julia’s extremely diverse and high-flying career, helps organisations to create the perfect conditions and capabilities for innovation. The business has recently […]
Award Nominations: Now Open
The Celebrating Enterprise Awards are an annual celebration of the enterprising spirit in action. Taking place in November in a prestigious House of Lords setting, 2015’s event is set to be bigger and better than ever before, and right now we’re searching for its stars. Do you know an individual who has gone above and beyond in […]
Westsidecoders Story
Nick Fulcher and business partner Shazaad Badil are leading Westsidecoders, a software development and digital training business in Birmingham West Midlands. Having attended the city’s Meet a Mentor event in July, Nick was keen to share his entrepreneurial story with us. It was while Nick was studying for his degree in Computer Science and Business […]
Entrepreneurs get a helping hand from history
What can be learnt from the past about how to create a future in which small businesses can thrive and grow? How can global understanding of entrepreneurship be interpreted to improve the landscape for SMEs right here, right now? This month, a two-day Symposium will be held in Durham to explore these questions and the […]
A Fashion Forward Enterprise
Jyoti Sheath, a 32-year-old Londoner with over a decade’s experience of working in fashion, is currently preparing to go it alone in the industry. Her business, Not Another, will sell bespoke trend-led occasion dresses. We caught up with Jyoti to find out how things are going as she moves towards the full-time life of an […]
Yvonne Bennett
“It’s important for training businesses to stay alert to new opportunities and be ready to diversify.” Yvonne Bennett runs the Wedding Planners Guild, which has recently achieved IOEE Academy status. In the second of a series of blogs, she tells us about the programmes she offers and the wedding planners themselves! “Wedding Planners Guild UK […]
The PRIME of life
As our Executive Chair Ruth Lowbridge MBE joins the board of PRIME Cymru, we talk to her about the role and how the charity’s work corresponds to the IOEE’s new Age Diversity Programme. Today’s over 50s are pioneers, a generation that’s redefining the way mature people operate and are perceived both in the workplace and […]