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Stephanie YOUNG
Senior Director,Scottish Enterprise
Glasgow (Scotland)
Having worked for Scottish Enterprise Glasgow, Scotland’s largest regional economic development agency, since 1998, Stephanie Young was appointed Senior Director, Employability in April 2000. Her key driver has been the ambitious task of developing Glasgow as a Learning City and developing Real, a partnership vision for both the physical and virtual learning environment. Real has developed by combining an understanding of the forces shaping the demand for learning alongside a more sophisticated understanding of the desires, goals and motivations of individual learners. It has taken a multidisciplinary approach, learning and working with experts and practitioners in the disciplines of psychology; sociology; economics; education; architecture and design. The Real network has 39 community learning centres and 130 centres in city businesses with a membership of 70,000.
Stephanie’s work on learning and skills issues also encompasses leading the National and Glasgow Construction Skills Action Plan, as well as leading wider efforts on behalf of Scottish Enterprise to develop the construction industry. Additionally she led the development of the Skills Strategy for the Clyde shipyards and Scotland’s Literacy and Numeracy Strategy. She is a Board member of the UK wide Sector Skills Development Agency and the Scottish Network for Able Pupils (SNAP).
Stephanie is a graduate of Edinburgh and Leicester Universities, a Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow and a Fellow of the RSA. She began her career working as a Marketing Executive in the knitwear industry, and in 1986 moved into the field of economic development. She has been an adviser to both conservative and labour governments on learning issues.
Prior to joining Scottish Enterprise Glasgow, Stephanie was Director of the Advisory Scottish Council for Education and Training Targets (ASCETT). Before joining ASCETT in October 1994, she held a variety of senior positions in Scottish economic development in both Scottish Enterprise and the Enterprise Trust Network. Her experience spans all aspects of strategic planning, organisation development and human resource management. She lectures internationally on lifelong learning, and writes for the national press, professional journals, and has contributed to a number of books on education and training. She is the founding Editor of the Journal of Lifelong Learning Initiatives (JOLLI), the only lifelong learning journal aimed at practitioners and is currently writing a book on lifelong learning, due for publication next year.
Pancho NUNES
Associate Professor in Strategic Management
Coordinator of the strategic management team, E.M. Lyon
Lyon (France)
Dr. Pancho Nunes graduated from the Business School of Marseille, France and holds a PhD. in Strategic Management from the University of Grenoble, France. After being a consultant in the field of strategy and organization in the early 1990s, he joined E.M.LYON, one of the top 4 business schools in France, as a faculty member in the department of Strategic Management.
Beyond teaching in the MBA and Mastère programs, Pancho is now leading various international executive education programs of E.M.LYON. For the last 8 years, as Program Director, he has designed educational programs for companies such as the Compass Group (world leader in catering), Seb Group (world leader in home appliances), SITA (European leader in waste management) and France Telecom, Suez (energy and environment), and delivered a number of customized programs for junior and senior managers at companies like Arcelor (steel) Renault (automotive), Schneider Electric (electric equipment), and Total-Fina (oil).
Since 1992, Pancho has been heavily involved with the coaching of individual entrepreneurs at the Centre for Entrepreneurs and the creation of numerous start-ups in various business fields. He has developed extensive experience in entrepreneurial development. He is currently a board member in four companies and start-ups. He has recently created his own consultancy, PreSense, within the area of “sense making” for public and private institutions.
Since 1995, Pancho has been heavily involved in the not-for-profit sector, developing and training managers for public or private associations. As an example, he is currently involved with the development of strategic and entrepreneurial spirit of local managers at CNEAP, a major French educational network related to the French Ministry of Agriculture.
Pancho’s current research interests are concerned with the creation of value in the national or international context and the development of intrapreneurship. He has written several articles about international strategy and is co-author of the book "The Dynamics of International Competition" (Sage, 2000). Pancho is a member of the Strategic Management Society, Academy of Management, and the French “Association Internationale de Management Stratégique”.
More recently, Pancho has written about the conditions for developing intrapreneurial mindset within organizations. Pancho’s interest with intrapreneurship started back in the late 1980s when he was doing his doctoral research about how to organize companies in such a way that people would take initiatives. Then he developed on-the-field experience about intrapreneurship with companies like France Telecom, HP, Kodak and more recently Group Seb. Today he is preparing a book about why intrapreneurial attempts within companies fail, due for publication in 2005.
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