A presentation to help you introduce some entrepreneurial thinking into your senior management team. Suitable for public sector organisations or stale & complex corporates who want to be more agile in how they do things. Suitable for old school leaders or prospective leaders. Suitable for 3rd sector teams rolling out ambitious community projects.

1. Thoughts about entrepreneurial leadership
London Borough of Lambeth
12 February 2014

2. A bit about Learning Pool …
• Started life as an IDeA innovation project
• Became a private company in 2006
• Has over 400 public sector customers (including Lambeth)
• Provides an e-learning platform and content services
• Now employs 65 people across the UK & Ireland
• Has built the UK’s largest public sector community with 1m people

3. A bit about me …
• Started my career in local government
• Was person number 5 in a tiny team that’s now O2
• Spent 10 years in CIPFA’s commercial subsidiary
• Left to become a Silicon Valley dotcommer
• Became an entrepreneur later in life than most
• Have founded 4 startups of my own … so far!

4. Have a vision and communicate it

5. Be able to compartmentalise

6. Resilience is key

7. Make decisions quickly

8. Urgency and impatience have their place

9. It’s easier to stamp on a seedling

10. Focus … and focus on the right things

11. Be hungry like a wolf

12. Remember your people are your best asset

13. No-one knows what’s going to happen next

14. Final thought …
“You have to be optimistic to
be an entrepreneur”

15. What’s next for me
• Heading up a social innovation project for vInspired
• Building my non executive portfolio
• Balancing my paid and pro bono work for maximum job satisfaction
• Will more than likely start another business

16. • Email address mary@kickhq.com
• Read my blog at www.kickingassets.co.uk
• Connect with me on Twitter at @MMaryMcKenna