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Our Business Lab provides guidance and one-to-one sessions to student businesses (and alumni within two years of graduation) and our virtual office clients. This provision draws on the practices of coaching and mentoring to ensure that the businesses supported succeed.

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Advice provided to students

The advice and guidance provided covers a wide range of 'subject areas' most frequently:

Writing a business plan
Researching markets
Starting a company
Reviewing a business idea e.g. for Eureka Competition
Working for a start-up
Making and growing sales
Solving problems
Validating a business idea
Etc.

The sessions are provided by appointed Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiR). CEKE is open to conversations with you are a business owner and wish to support our work as an EiR.

Please note: It is not a place for counselling or similar.

Entrepreneurs in Residence

Our Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiR) are part of a network of SME leaders that aims to provide students and staff at Leeds Beckett University with access to business knowledge, experience and contacts. As well as providing inspiration and guidance for our students, and graduate start-ups, EiRs contribute their thinking and insights into new programme development, community engagement and knowledge exchange. They act as ambassadors for entrepreneurship on behalf of the business school and are a great source of mentorship to our student entrepreneurs within the Business Lab.

Among the activities undertaken by our EiRs are:

Provide mentoring to students, and aspiring entrepreneurs
Advise student start-ups on business model development, market strategy, fundraising and growth
Offer insights and feedback on business plans, pitches and presentations
Signpost/provide opportunities for live industry projects
Participate in Leeds Business School CEKE Advisory Board
Offer support and advice to academic staff for the design and development of the entrepreneurship curriculum
Participate in entrepreneurship research design or development

Join the team as an EiR if you wish to make impact on the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Emmanuelle Bastide-Wilson

Strategy for a furniture design and manufacturing business
Kirsty Collinson

Award Winning Entrepreneur
Phil Fraser

Business Sounding Board

Entrepreneurship Mentors

We have appointed experts and academics with business experience as entrepreneurship mentors to provide one-to-one support to our virtual office clients. To know more about our virtual office programme, contact us via ceke@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Lucile Allen-Paisant

Senior Lecturer / Leeds Business School
Dr Alfred Chinta

Course Director / Leeds Business School
Stephanie Dawson

Senior Lecturer / Leeds Business School

The Business Lab works on an appointment system

To book an appointment, contact the centre directly via email. Students will be required to provide essential information before they attend the business lab. For students attending for the first time, they will be requested to submit three pieces of information to help the business advisor prepare and provide advice to help the student.

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