{"id":19949,"date":"2023-03-29T15:41:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=19949"},"modified":"2024-07-30T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T08:35:23","slug":"join-our-next-mba-guest-lecture-on-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2023\/03\/join-our-next-mba-guest-lecture-on-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Join our next MBA Guest Lecture on Entrepreneurship and meet Fife Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Join us for our next MBA Guest Lecture Series event focused on Entrepreneurship taking place both in the MBA Suite in the Sibson building at our Canterbury Campus and via Zoom on Friday 12 May from 12.30 &#8211; 14.00 (BST).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This interactive event will be\u00a0led by Kent MBA Entrepreneur Scholars\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2022\/10\/19\/babatunde-adenaike\/\">Babatunde Adenaike<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2022\/10\/19\/festus-bello\/\">Festus Bello<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our Scholars alongside\u00a0MBA Director,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/people\/2401\/kemp-debbie\">Debbie Kemp<\/a>\u00a0will welcome a global live audience, bringing together our community of MBA students, alumni, Kent Business School staff,\u00a0and the broader community of business leaders.<\/p>\n<h3>Our first speaker &#8211; Fife Banks<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifebanks.com\/#section-home\">Fife Banks<\/a>, from Abuja, FCT Nigeria, is Managing Partner\/CEO of BravelCONS Global. Not only does Fife lead the team there, he is also the Managing Partner at BRAVE by BravelCONS Global Multi-Family Office LLP\u00ae.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2023\/03\/Fife-Banks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19951\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2023\/03\/Fife-Banks.jpg\" alt=\"Fife Banks\" width=\"1200\" height=\"765\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Harvard University Certified Consultant with more than a decade of commercial experience, Fife has worked with multifunctional teams in multicultural contexts across industries including oil and gas, energy and renewables, technology and education, government and international trade. He is a consummate business executive, policy advisor, management consultant, learning and development professional and executive coach helping clients across the public, private and development sectors develop &#8216;shared and sustainable prosperity&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, at the US-Nigeria Investment Summit held in New York in September 2021, Fife was described as being &#8216;one of the most promising emerging CEOs from Africa who is building extensive commercial and political relationships, securing strategic synergies and nurturing profitable partnerships worldwide&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he is the Chairman, Young CEOs at the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and was recently appointed the first and only National Prosperity Policy Fellow at the National Chamber Policy Centre, Abuja FCT, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Fife and other successful and exciting entrepreneurs (details coming soon) will present at the hybrid, interactive event. Those who attend will have the chance to submit questions to the panel and network in Q&amp;A sessions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>This is a free event &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJApceuppjosHNSVhTShCYLKF5WkPKVDkWg_\">register your you place<\/a> today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Our MBA Guest Lecture series runs across the year covering three main themes: Sustainability in November, Diversity\/Women in Leadership in March and Entrepreneurship in May.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/mba\"><strong>Our MBA<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0is underpinned by our high-quality research and informed by the global outlook of our international community. It builds on your current experience to transform you into a responsible business leader.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for our next MBA Guest Lecture Series event focused on Entrepreneurship taking place both in the MBA Suite in the Sibson building at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2023\/03\/join-our-next-mba-guest-lecture-on-entrepreneurship\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79181,"featured_media":19956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9890,9875,124],"tags":[263896,151374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19949"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20614,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19949\/revisions\/20614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}