Every Mind, Every Idea: Diverse Founders and Futures

Event summary

A welcoming workshop for anyone curious about entrepreneurship, exploring ideas, or wondering whether enterprise could be for them.

Facilitated by Richard Calvert, this session explores how diverse identities, perspectives, experiences, and challenges can become sources of creativity, confidence, and impact. You do not need a business idea or prior experience to attend — just curiosity and an openness, to explore what entrepreneurship could look like for you.

About the series

This workshop is part of the BU Inclusive Entrepreneurship Series: Explore, Create, Connect, an interactive programme supporting early-stage ideas, inclusive pathways into entrepreneurship, and opportunities to build confidence, connect, and take ideas forward.

This workshop is part of the Inclusive Entrepreneurship series and is supported by Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF).

Entrepreneurship is not only for people with perfect pitches, big networks, or business backgrounds. It can begin with a personal experience, a problem you care about, a community need, or a different way of seeing the world.

In this practical and inclusive session, participants will explore how lived experience can shape ideas, confidence, and future pathways. Through discussion, reflection, and connection, the workshop will help participants recognise the value of their own perspective and identify possible next steps.

Come as you are. Leave with confidence, connection, and a clearer sense of what you could build.

This session is open to everyone.

It is especially suitable for anyone curious about entrepreneurship who may not see themselves in the traditional image of an entrepreneur, including people from underrepresented backgrounds and those with diverse lived experiences.

No business idea or prior experience is needed — just curiosity.

By attending, participants will have the opportunity to:

• Build confidence in exploring enterprise
• Recognise the value of their own experiences and perspectives
• Explore how diverse backgrounds can shape ideas and innovation
• Make new connections in an inclusive space
• Identify a possible next step into enterprise support or idea development

-Refreshments will be provided during the session.

-Data will be collected, with consent, from participants at the workshop for feedback and may be used for academic outputs ONLY.

-For further information on this event please contact Dr Sukanya Ayatakshi Endow [email protected]

About the facilitator

Richard Calvert is a strategist, consultant and visiting lecturer with over 30 years’ experience across brand, data, customer experience, digital strategy and organisational design. He has worked with global brands and teams, and his specialist areas include innovation, transformation, DE&I, and start-ups and scale-ups.

Booking

Spaces are limited, so booking in advance is recommended.

How to get to BU:

Talbot Campus is easily accessed via public transport and has bike storage points. Please see travel info.

Talbot Campus operates a pay and display car park for visitors.

Additional Information:
If you are a Blue Badge holder and intend to park in an accessibility bay between 7am – 4pm, Monday to Friday , whilst attending the event, will need to call a reception point to register your vehicle register number:
Talbot Campus - 01202 965001
Lansdowne Campus – 01202 968003
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