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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 […]

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 […]

Spread the Passion virus through your Business – by Brian Chernett

Are you passionate about your business? Do you believe in what you’re doing and how you are going about it? If you are, that’s good, though there may be plenty of room for improvement. If you aren’t passionate about what you do, that is a problem that may need you to rethink your current situation […]

What can we learn from “Natural Horsemanship”? – by Joanna Jesson

Members of experiential learning group DF9 (Directors Forum 9) were very surprised to find themselves sharing 2 days with 4 horses – working outside in a round pen!  Several of them were well outside their comfort zones.  Immediately they saw the horses, their heart rate went up.  The initial task was to learn how to […]

How to take advice by Jeremy Thorn

What was the best ‘incidental advice’ you ever had recently, that stopped you in your tracks? Not just the great ‘life-changing’ advice we can all look back on and share with others later.  Nor even all the grand tips of relevant good business practice, setting personal goals, managing work-life balance or building great relationships.  But […]

Deloitte and The Academy for Chief Executives selected by Birmingham City Council to deliver second Enterprise City High Growth Project

Due to the success of the first Enterprise City High Growth Project (ECHGP) in 2008/9, Birmingham City Council has again selected Deloitte and The Academy for Chief Executives to deliver development programmes to local businesses with major growth potential. Mike Burnage, Managing Director of  The Academy for Chief Executives stated, “I am delighted that Deloitte […]

How to improve the decision-making process by Peter Sutcliffe

The North East Academy for Chief Executives, Directors Forum speaker in July was Ian Moore who facilitated a fascinating and thought provoking experiential learning session on “Decisions Decisions“. We examined how we make decisions, how well we make decisions, how much bad decisions can cost us! and how we can improve the decision making process. […]

Why I say ‘no’ to being a solo entrepreneur, but ‘yes’ to leading a committed team by Charles McLachlan

Our individualistic celebrity culture dictates that we seek to make heroes of individuals and icons of their ideas.  Not convinced?  For a moment, just ust think of some of the celebrity entrepreneurs that readily come to mind: Dyson, Branson, Sugar, Gates, Jobs with their iconic products – Dyson: cyclone vacuum cleaner; Branson: Virgin Atlantic; Sugar: […]