Enjoy this podcast from Connect: Health Tech - Live with organisational psychologist, award winning, international best-selling author, executive coach and Founder of APS Intelligence Ltd. John Amaechi OBE

Paula interviewed John to get his unique perspectives on leadership and the future of work. With his background in organisational psychology, leadership, and high-performance culture, John has empowered countless individuals and organisations to unlock their full potential.

John discusses the role of leaders and managers as giants within workplace culture - creating behaviour change and navigating successful transitions.

Listen to find out:

• How can you reframe your thinking and build the tools and knowledge to be adaptable?
• What promises has your workplace made you and is it fulfilling them?
• What changes do the next 10 years hold for the way we work?

In this episode we explore the Maxwell Centre’s Impulse programme for tech innovators that supports research translation from the perspective of Head of Entrepreneurship, Yupar Myint.

Yupar shares her career journey, from undertaking an MBA and delivering entrepreneurship programmes in Europe to leading on the development of the successful Impulse programme. Yupar gives insights into the programme format, what skills and learning participants gain and the benefits of post-programme support through networking opportunities and mentoring.

Yupar has more than 16 years of experience in building up entrepreneurship programmes and international collaborations. She has been involved in developing the IECT Hermann Hauser Summer School in Austria and has served as a programme director and mentor since 2015. Yupar worked previously at CfEL, Judge Business School where she led Ignite for over 11 years and during her leadership Ignite has generated over 250 business ventures. More than £200 million in funding was raised and approximately 4,300 jobs were created by the alumni ventures.

From 2008 to 2013, she served as a programme director at EFER in the Netherlands that trains European professors to teach entrepreneurship. Yupar completed her MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School in 2002 and her research interests include understanding the social capital effect in entrepreneurial development and training.

Yupar is passionate about developing entrepreneurial thinking and the value of mentorship throughout your career.

In this episode we explore Cambridge Judge Business School’s EnterpriseTECH and EnterpriseTECH STAR programmes as innovative programmes that support research translation from the perspective of Head of Entrepreneurial Learning Programmes Dr Rebecca Myers.

Rebecca shares her journey from being a mature student to becoming an organic chemist working in the University’s Chemistry Department for nearly 20 years to leading on the development of two successful entrepreneurship programmes that serve the research community: EnterpriseTECH and EnterpriseTECH STAR.

Rebecca gives insights into the inner workings of the programmes from their early days and how the learning and skills participants gain act as a catalyst in furthering entrepreneurial journeys.

Rebecca joined the Entrepreneurship Centre in 2018 intending to build educational programmes on entrepreneurship that serve the research community. The first was EnterpriseTECH in 2018, which has had close to 450 students attend. Then came EnterpriseTECH STAR in 2019 to help researchers begin the journey towards forming their own new ventures.

For close to 20 years, Rebecca’s home was the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. She is an organic chemist by training having done her PhD with Professor Chris Abell FRS. Rebecca then worked with Professor Steven Ley CBE FRS in the Department of Chemistry. She was also the Associate Director of the Cambridge-CRUK PhD Training Programme in Medicinal Chemistry led by Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian FRS for ten years. Her research and publications cover many areas of medicinal chemistry, particularly around cancer research.

Rebecca values collaborative efforts and is passionate about cultivating meaningful research impact and creating opportunities for researchers to thrive beyond academia.