Category: Interviews

Lord Alan Sugar and Sir Richard Branson were chosen in a survey by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) as the senior business leaders that the majority of managers would like to shadow for the day.

Ambitious fashion-lover Hannah Buckley who abandoned a successful career as an accountant to follow her dream and launch her own high street fashion website earlier this year, has ended 2011 by winning a national award to recognise her achievements.

In light of the recent events surrounding executive burnout and mental health issues – both in business and in sport – we asked West Ham United Vice-Chairman Karren Brady if, more than ever before, the pressures of football were mimicking those present in the corporate world.

When asked whether they believe they have the skills and experience to start up, nearly forty per cent of working aged females say they think they do, while a quarter agree that there will be good start-up opportunities where they live in the next six months. So why are so few women taking the leap into entrepreneurialism?

Carole Stone, author, broadcaster and founder of YouGovStone, has won the inaugural Institute of Directors and O2 ‘Britain’s Best Connected Woman’ prize, as voted for by delegates at this year’s Women as Leaders Conference.

Twenty three year old Arnold Du Toit has been named the winner of the PC World Business competition to find Britain’s best young entrepreneur.

Claire Young, the straight-talking, no-nonsense finalist from BBC1’s The Apprentice has been using her experience to promote entrepreneurship and enterprise to our younger generation since leaving the show. She is now set to takes that one step further with the launch of the new youth initiative Teenbiz, which provides funding to entrepreneurs aged 13 to 18 years old.

Vote for the outstanding leaders in British business – the National Business Awards in partnership with Orange have announced their five nominees of the Orange Leader of the Year award.

Dragons’ Den veteran Duncan Bannatyne was among the judges who voted business lawyer Suzanne Dibble’s venture Lawyers4Mumpreneurs a winner at the recent national Mumpreneur Awards ceremony.

The man who was dropped by Cameron as the Government’s Enterprise Advisor last year, after making inappropriate remarks to the press, continues to be a substantial shareholder and chairman of KashFlow, one of the UKs leading cloud accounting package for SMEs.

The growth in the number of female entrepreneurs has stalled and their numbers decline the more successful the ventures they set up become, a survey shows.

Having lived a real-life fairy tale and married a world-famous rock-and-roll star, many women would be content to sit back and enjoy the ride – not Trudie Styler. This dynamic woman, wife of the celebrity musician “Sting”, has proved herself to be a multi-talented entrepreneur, having just launched a film production company in New York, straight after the successful launch of a range of ready-to-cook meals back in England.

Lord Sugar has been crowned the UK’s nightmare career coach in a poll by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM), released today to mark the launch of their ‘Perform at Your Peak’ professional coaching campaign and the start of series seven of The Apprentice.

The winners in the 2011 MAN everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards have just been announced, celebrating the achievements of those women making a difference in the sector.

The ‘job interview from hell is back’ however, this year the show, which starts next Tuesday (May 10th) on BBC One, is a bit different, as rather than being rewarded with a job working directly for Lord Sugar the winner will run a business and receive a fifty per cent equity investment into a new business of up to £250,000. Here are the male candidates: