Member Profiles
Maggie O’Carroll
Executive Director Train 2000 Ltd
Maggie is the founding member of Train 2000 –- the Centre for Women’s Enterprise and Employment and has led its development as an award winning women’s economic development agency and social enterprise since its inception in 1996. She has run her own successful consultancy business, Options Management Associates, but in recent years has focused her work on the development of women enterprises research, policy and support infrastructure on a local, regional, national and international basis. She has worked with organisations across the European Union, South Africa and Japan.
Maggie has a Masters in Community Enterprise from Cambridge University, is a guest lecturer at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University and Liverpool John Moore’s University where she is currently a doctoral student in Enterprise Education.
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Senior Research Associate, Brown University
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is a Senior Research Associate at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University. Abusharaf’s work has received support from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.
She was a 2000–01 postdoctoral fellow of the Pembroke Center and has been a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, and the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.
Dinah Bennett
Dinah has spent many years working in the field of women’s entrepreneurship and women’s enterprise development. Having worked on a women’s development programme in the Sudan she moved to Durham where her research has led to the development of relationship management courses for banking, 2 BBC television programmes and the co-authoring of the book “Hallmarks of Successful Business”.
Now a Senior Tutor at Durham Business School and Director of Women Into the Network (WIN), Dinah teaches and researches, both nationally and internationally, in the areas of marketing, networking and relationship management. Dinah has won several awards for her work including an individual lifetime award, The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion, which recognises outstanding contribution to the development and promotion of an enterprise culture.
Alison Price
Alison Price is Head of Enterprise Education at Leeds Metropolitan University, providing academic leadership for the HEFCE funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, the Institute for Enterprise. Alison has over a decade’s experience of enterprise teaching and curriculum development, which has been enhanced by US experiences gained from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) entrepreneurial programme at Sloan Management School.
Most recently, she worked within Business Start-Up at Leeds Met directly supporting graduates to start-up business and prior to that, she was engaged with the DTi programme “Science Enterprise Challenge” for the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York, stimulating entrepreneurial approaches to programme development and teaching materials.
Alison has published within the field of strategic management, corporate social responsibility and small business development. Her most recent research and consultancy has included projects for National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship; Higher Education Academy/ Department for Education and Skills (DFES); and the Small Business Service. She is currently working on several book chapters to promote enterprise education.
Professor Tom Cannon
Professor Cannon is a recognized leader in business education in Britain and across the world. He was one of the first UK academic to focus on female entrepreneurship research with his colleague Sara Carter with “Female Entrepreneurs – A Study of Female Business Owners: Their Motivations, Experience and Strategies for Success”, (1988).
His previous appointments include the Directorship of Manchester Business School, the headship of Stirling University Business School and as Chief Executive of the Management Charter Initiative – HM Government’s lead body for management and leadership education. He currently holds visiting Chairs in Britain, the USA and Asia as well as non-executive Directorships in several UK companies.
He chaired the New Vision for Business study initiated by the Rt Hon Tony Blair MP, and has completed major studies of Leadership and Management in a Changing World; Entrepreneurship; and Management Values and Ethics for UK government Departments. His company, Ideopolis International, has pioneered new thinking about the future of cities, which has influenced policy makers across the world.
His 24 books include best sellers like
- “The Ultimate Book of Business Breakthroughs”,
- “Welcome to the Revolution”,
- “Guinness Book of Business Records”,
- “How to Get Ahead in Business”
as well as more mainstream academic texts on Business Strategy, Marketing and Business Ethics.
He has published almost 100 academic papers and writes regularly in the national and international media including, The Times, Guardian, The Times Higher Education Supplement. His views on management, business and economic issues are reported frequently on TV and radio.