another busy week!

Goodness gracious - i have been slack in writing to you all! Apologies!

Here are the highlights:

The Good Deals conference:http://www.socialenterpriselive.com/section/news/money/20101116/good-deals-10-club-together-get-investment-say-experts

A conference to discuss investment in social enterprise. I said there was a "language barrier" between the investors and the entrepreneurs. We need to find ways to meet and understand, one another's value system and ways of communicating. Look, social enterprises ARE less likely to be highly profitable than hedge funds. Both are done for different reasons, in different ways. We are primarily motivated by instigating a social change and social impact, the hedge funders and investors are interested in tactical bets on the market to facilitate the highest return possible. Different sphere, different aims, different words.

Wednesday I ran a Find Your Purpose workshop at Sussex University as part of their Global Entrepreneurship Week. As a female social entrepreneur I feel passionately that it is possible to combine people, purpose, planet and profit. The workshop generated a lot of interesting career possibilities for the participants - many that they hadn't of. Perhaps they will invite me back to run a workshop on how to get your idea from concept to business plan? If you are at Sussex, I am running two workshops this Wednesday via CDEC: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/newsandevents/events, these are free to Sussex students! One is on Presentation Skills and the other Innovation Tools.If you'd like me to run a workshop at your careers service, do let me know.

Stay in touch - need to know you are out there!