Category: case study

ARLLS: A youth leadership, social enterprise startup

Intro to Beacon and ARLLS Beacon Changemakers has been helping talented young East Africans into places at top African International Schools and UK Universities for over 15 years. More than just a scholarship programme, the Beacon team delivers a leadership programme to their scholars, in the hope that they will eventually lead ethical and positive…
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Building a youth sport events system

Every so often I start a personal project in an attempt to keep my technical skills fresh, usually solving a personal problem of some kind. Recently I’ve been working on a solution to an issue that affects me as the parent of a teenage bike racer. The problem is a simple one – finding local…
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Case Study: Technology Leadership Mentoring

Helping Tech Leaders Grow Through Conversation When I announced my transition into independent work in Spring 2024, one of the first people to get in touch was Martin Baker, someone I’d first worked with back in the early 2000s during my days at Epic. At the time, Martin had brought my team in to build…
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Case Study: The Portal – reimagining learning

Founder Sally Burns has been running a content creation business for some years, helping female founders and experts to create beautifully crafted content for their own audiences via the LearnWorlds platform. Sally’s vision to scale this up required a learning platform that emphasises collaboration and connection over completion and content monetisation (which excludes most of…
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