LabNotes

In February, Gregor Rae, Chairman and CEO of BusinessLab, gave an inaugural lecture to the International MBA student cohort at the University of Aberdeen. "The Art of the Pitch" is the first of two modules intended to help students improve and finesse their presentations to potential investors and employers. The second module is entitled "The Science of the Pitch".

The future is in Newcastle

Technology Watch website lauds the Microsoft Corporation - ActiveAge presentation at the Gerontological Society of America's annual conference in New Orleans, and cites Newcastle upon Tyne as 'the future' in terms of ageing.

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ActiveAge

The ActiveAge team has started another wave of research into robotics, which will provide the theme for the next ActiveAge publication. A Newcastle partner meeting has also been scheduled for the 26th of January, when plans for the 2011 ActiveAge Summit will be finalised.

Renewables

The BusinessLab research team has been looking into the growing renewable energy sector. The team is particularly interested in the markets and business models that are developing within this area - and the strategies and processes that are being deployed to capitalise on the opportunities.

More Agents for Swansea

The City and County of Swansea Council are training up a new cohort of Signature Agents. A total of 36 new Agents are being trained to deploy the Family Learning Signature with families across the city.

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Ian Leith

Programme Manager

Ian manages the Signature Academy, BusinessLab’s community of practice that supports the suite of capacity measuring tools and processes.

He has first hand experience of working closely with diverse learning cultures in organisations of all sizes in both the public and private sector – from local authorities, large Oil and Gas companies to rural micro businesses.  Ian has extensive experience of research at all levels and of working with organisations to understand barriers to learning and change management.

Ian’s work has a particular focus on family learning and community based research and has gained  significant engagement experience, through facilitating workshops and forums with a wide variety of groups and individuals.

Ian’s work focusses on understanding how to engage and consult with typically harder to reach groups and individuals. An example of this is the development of BusinessLab’s own range of Signature engagement tools, designed to gather, collate and analyse the perceptions and experiences of groups or individuals.