Enterprise Tuesday – The power of diversity: How inclusive teams drive early-stage venture growth

Join us as we look at how diverse, inclusive teams can enhance your venture’s growth in those vital early stages. Discussion will focus on building a working environment, leadership team and hybrid teams where diversity and inclusivity can thrive, and the benefits each of these offer.

Ready to polish your entrepreneurial potential and meet likeminded others? Join us in person at CJBS. Doors open at 18:00 and we encourage you to arrive promptly as places are limited. We will allocate seats on a first-come, first-served basis.

Chaired by: Thomas Roulet, Associate Professor in Organisation Theory, Cambridge Judge Business School​

Guest speakers:

• Annie Hanekom, Director of Leadership, Wild Monday
• Prashant Shah, co-CEO & co-founder o2h group
• Antony Quinn, co-founder of The Communication Practice

If you are unable to attend this session after you have registered, we ask that you to cancel your seat as soon as possible to free it up for someone else.

About Enterprise Tuesday

Enterprise Tuesday is a popular series for local entrepreneurs. The talks are open to everyone but prior registration is essential. We strongly recommend registering early to ensure you get a seat. There is limited seating capacity of 80 places for each talk.

Have a question? Please email the team at [email protected].

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Speakers bios

Annie Hanekom, Director of Leadership, Wild Monday

Annie is the Director of Leadership at Wild Monday Resilience Ltd. She brings 20 years of experience in
the space of personal and team leadership development in both the NGO and corporate sectors.
She has served a diverse range of clients across Europe, Africa and the US. Annie has developed a keen interest and focus in her work around the business impact that senior and emerging leaders have in their management and leadership responsibilities, encouraging a systemic approach, broad stakeholder view and bringing challenge and realism to one on one work. She is also particularly attuned to the requirements of inclusivity and diversity in the workplace, and the need to maintain mental and physical wellbeing.
Annie has a strong business sense, is pragmatic in her approach, driving for sustained behaviour change. She was certified as a coach from The Centre for Coaching at New Ventures South in 2005, has an ICAgile Professional Certification, is a certified Enneagram practitioner and works with individuals in a coaching environment as well as facilitating broader team-based interventions as an Accredited Senior Practitioner in Systemic Team Coaching with the Global Team Coaching Institute with Peter Hawkins.

Annie does not adhere to a single model, working with a range of theoretical disciplines, using the axial approach to coaching. She makes use of self-assessment or mental models to support deep self-enquiry and driving to enable greater self-awareness as a basis for her approach. By exploring the uncomfortable spaces of individual or collective shadows, Annie works with individuals in their organisational context to unlock latent capability and talent that can be expanded and amplified to enable individuals to better navigate the complex business environment and find ways in which to consistently add value. Annie also works extensively with the mind, body, heart triad unlocking our instinctual responses and brining greater awareness to our behaviour in a mindful way.

As a keen runner and former triathlete, Annie believes in a holistic approach to personal leadership and development, that is required to live with conviction and focus

Prashant Shah, co-CEO & co-founder o2h group

Prashant is the co-founder of o2h which has three core business segments covering ventures, discovery and technology. The team at o2h is curious about seeding new ideas at the intersection of life science and technology. o2h is located out of two proprietary research centres in the UK and India which have been purpose designed for seeding early stage innovation.

Prashant has previously co-founded companies in the life science and technology sectors and began his career with the Strategy group of Accenture in London where he worked across various industry groups. He has a BEng, MSc and an MPhil in Management from the University of Cambridge.

o2h Ventures has launched the first fund in the world solely focused on early stage biotech therapeutic and related AI opportunities. The geographic scope shall be UK wide including London and Oxford but will target the growing Cambridge biotech cluster. The fund operates from the 2.76 acre heritage Mill SciTech Park, Cambridge, where it can provide incubation, integrated lab facilities and support as part of a vibrant community to help the companies it invests to achieve a critical value inflexion point.

Antony Quinn, co-founder of The Communication Practice

Antony is a co-founder of The Communication Practice, a drama-based training company specialising in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) in the workplace. The Communication Practice helps organisations build inclusive cultures that allow everyone to reach their full potential. Their vision is to co-create a world where everyone feels like they belong at work.

Antony became a corporate role-play actor and facilitator in 2016 after a long career in software development, UX design and genomics. He studied economics in France, computer science and interaction design in London, genetics in Cambridge, and improvised theatre with improv pioneer Keith Johnstone. Alongside his native English, he speaks French, Spanish and Italian.