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 […]
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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 […]
IOEE Academy status
“Becoming an IOEE Academy is well worth the work for that recognition- that rubber stamp of approval from a known and trusted enterprise organisation.” Yvonne Bennett (46) runs Liverpool based The Wedding Planners Guild UK, which recently achieved the sought-after status of IOEE Academy. In this, the first of a series of blogs about establishing […]
Infinite possibilities for mentoring relationship
Karen Jones, along with business partner Joanne Spencer, runs Infinite You Limited, a change management company that supports organisations and their people through challenging times. She explains the Infinite You remit: “The focus of our work tends to revolve around organisations going through change. It’s about helping managers support their staff. That might be through […]
HR Director goes it alone
Lynn Colledge, who became an HR professional in 1990, worked her way up to achieve her driving ambition to be an HR Director in 2005. In fact, Lynn went one step further by securing this dream position at Birmingham Royal Ballet, a job she recalls fondly: “It was a lovely job, very interesting, but there […]
Bags of opportunity for the self-employed?
What’s it like to be self-employed in the UK today? That’s is exactly what Julie Deane OBE, founder of The Cambridge Satchel Company, has been tasked with finding out. The Government has commissioned Julie to carry out an extensive independent review into the subject. She’ll explore why people become self-employed and the types of work […]
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A gem of a business
Polish-born jeweller Kamila Lipska has her own online jewellry store – www.mylippi.com, and has lived for five years in Barcelona. However, it was to London that she headed in search of someone willing to share their business experience with her. She attended the London Meet a Mentor event in October 2014. Although she studied marketing […]