Role Model Event at City and Islington Sixth Form College

About the Business Leaders

These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Jo Bishop for 25 students at City and Islington Sixth Form College aged Age 16 - 17.

Event description

Inspire our Business A level students and enrich their studies on entrepreneurship

Additionally, as well as the entrepreneurs talking about their specific business and how they started, could we ask them to cover some of the other topics on our scheme of work around:

• Role of an Entrepreneur – expanding the business, innovation within (intrapreneurship), barriers to entrepreneurship, anticipating risk and uncertainty
• Entrepreneurial motives and characteristics – characteristics and skills required, financial and non-financial motives
• Business Objectives – survival, profit maximisation, sales, market share, customer satisfaction, cost efficiency, employee welfare, social objectives