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Academy for Chief Executives breeds Yorkshire Winners

The Academy for Chief Executives, the UK’s leading executive coaching and mentoring organisation, welcomes the news that two members of the Academy Group 45 for South and West Yorkshire have scooped a handful of coveted awards. Bonmarché CEO Beth Butterwick won Yorkshire Woman of the Year (Larger Business) at the inaugural Barclays Women in Business […]

20 Ways to Add Value

By Phil Jesson In the future, there will only be two types of companies:- Those who are perceived as cost creators Those who are perceived as value creators The former are in for a hiding and many of them will not survive for obvious reasons….they will be seen as a “cost”. Value creators will survive […]

Enterprise City High Growth Programme boosts local economy

The Enterprise City High Growth Programme is a business mentoring programme managed by Birmingham City Council and delivered by Deloitte with the Academy for Chief Executives. Local entrepreneur Mick Davies of MAD Computer Solutions has successfully used support from the programme to grow his business, creating local jobs and increasing turnover. Case Study Mick Davies […]

The Academy for Chief Executives: first choice for Leaders intent on improving their effectiveness

As we discussed in our blogs towards the end of December 2010, the start of 2011 heralds a new era in the development of the Academy for Chief Executives. Andrew Morris, who has been a leading figure in the media and events industry for over twenty years became our new Chief Executive on 1st January. […]

Stimulating Business Growth – top down or bottom up? by Andy Coote

The Government is in the process of reducing the size of the public sector. In October central government learned of the cuts to be made in their budgets in the Public Spending Review. Earlier this week, local government in England found out how big the cuts to their budgets would be. The FT published a […]

Sharing Brian Chernett’s ideas for success in the current economic climate – by Gordon Bromley

The members of my Surrey-based leadership group, Entrepreneurs Board 8, enjoyed an engaging and thought-provoking session from Academy for Chief Executives’ founder, Brian Chernett, recently. With over 40 years’ experience of leading businesses himself and coaching business leaders, and following publication of his new book, ‘The Entrepreneur Within‘, Brian perfectly combined his relaxed style with […]

Kevin Kelly wows over 60 Chief Executives at Academy for Chief Executives 2nd Thought Leaders Conference – by Brian Chernett

The second in a series of Thought Leader Conferences organised by The Academy for Chief Executives (ACE) took place earlier this month. ACE provides a unique forum in which CEOs expand their expertise through leadership training, executive coaching and mentoring. The conferences have been designed to showcase the innovative learning processes which not only develop […]

Real Life Experiences: Leaders learning from each other

New South London area Academy Chairman, Peter Lynagh, was delighted to be given the opportunity to discuss the launch of his local leadership group by South London Business recently. The interview which follows is reproduced on our blog, with their kind permission: The Academy for Chief Executives (ACE) has recently started a new group in […]

North West Academy for Chief Executives offers challenging advice for local businesspeople at Autumn events in Manchester and Preston

The Academy for Chief Executives North West region is offering local businesspeople the chance to ‘Eat their Ugly Frog first!’ with three free events this autumn – in Preston and Manchester. Says Alan Dean, Chairman of the Academy group in Cheshire, Merseyside and Manchester ‘With challenging times for business right now we wanted to offer […]

What’s in a name? by Sue Knight

A thin strip of dusty road cuts its way through the coconut palms between the warm waters of the Arabian Sea and the magical Keralan backwaters. This road is busy with water trucks, fishermen, bike riding villagers shouting their wares, three wheeled yellow and black autos, farmers leading their tethered cows to fresher fields, taxi […]