Speakers
Ireland's leading professionals will work with the Endeavourees collectively for one day and will then provide each participant with one-to-one consultancy. The workshops will take place between November and December 2009 and will address Strategy and Business Models, Communications, Marketing and Branding, Financials, Sales, Technology, Team and IP/Patents/Legal issues
Dr. Tom McCarthy has been CEO of the Irish Management Institute (IMI) since September 2004. An Economist by training, Dr. McCarthy is a graduate of UCC and earned his doctorate from Queens University, Canada. Dr. McCarthy is a member of the Advisory Council on Science & Technology and in 2007, was elected a Fellow of The International Academy of Management. IMI is uniquely focused on improving the practice of management and is the premier provider in Ireland of executive education and management development programmes. Dr McCarthy's tenure as Chief Executive has seen the IMI become the first Irish Business School to be ranked among the top global providers of Executive Education in the prestigious Financial Times Executive Education - customised rankings, as well as the establishment of the National Productivity Centre at the IMI's Sandyford Campus and of the IMI's Innovation BizLab research centre.