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Henley Business School is ready to provide the chance to ‘Be Exceptional’
Henley Business School has achieved a globally respected reputation and presence including 16 international campuses and offices in the 70 years since its post-war foundation as the first business school in the UK, writes John Burbedge
Today part of the renowned University of Reading (itself among the top 1% of academic institutions in the world), Henley Business School has now formed a working partnership with The Business Magazine – like-minded organisations aiming to promote and enhance business awareness, knowledge and the abilities of local Thames Valley professionals.
“Helping our customers become exceptional is at the heart of everything we do, and that goes across the board, regardless of business type, individual needs, or company location,” explained Mike Davis, head of open programmes for Henley Business School.
“It just seems logical that with our main faculties based at the University of Reading and at Greenlands in Henley, and The Business Magazine providing the leading business media and events in the region, we should combine as a unique partnership making it easier for the Thames Valley businessworld to benefit from our joint activities.”
The tangible result of our partnership will soon be obvious with regular published insights into Henley Business School’s strategic management, leadership, coaching, HR and entrepreneurial programmes being featured in The Business Magazine. Reciprocal arrangements will also be made to involve both partners in staging and publicising relevant seminars, roundtable discussions and networking events.
Henley is a full-service accredited curricula business school but Mike Davis is particularly proud to be able to announce a fresh range of open programmes, for young ambitious companies and entrepreneurial executives.
These professionally developed and recognised programmes, the majority ranging over two to five days, are being run as focused, interactive ‘business-improvement breaks’, with residential costs at the beautiful Greenlands campus beside the Thames included in the overall learning packages.
Mike Davis
Keen to be more active with the local business community
Davis was celebrating his first year at Henley Business School, when I interviewed him, and his appointment is a tangible sign of the fresh emphasis that this local centre of academic excellence is placing on enhancing its involvement with the Thames Valley business community.
A member of the executive education leadership team for the school, Davis states: “We want to be well-known for being business active as well as for our academic excellence.”
Previously head of business development for training specialist TACK International and Ashridge Business School, as well as over 20 years spent within the hospitality sector, Davis has brought a broad range of business experience and knowledge of the learning and development industry to his new role.
Henley Business School has also already joined the sponsorship of The Business Magazine's new Thames Valley SME100 Growth Index, based on evaluated sales growth figures from Companies House, which will launch its findings in the November edition.
“We are looking to establish really good links across the Thames Valley and The Business Magazine provides a great opportunity for us to do that. Our synergy and alignment in terms of the magazine’s readership and its active involvements, and what we do within the business community made it sensible for us to create this link, this partnership approach.
“We would like to be the local business community’s learning provider of choice, but in a way that provides the region with a useful place to learn, and a reference point for all the business relevant things going on that they can gain from – providing the business learning environment of the region, if you like.
“We are very international with regional hubs all over the world, but strangely the majority of companies that use us for open programmes – individual development and management leadership, for example – are not from the Thames Valley region, which is actually quite surprising.
“The Thames Valley is vibrant, doing very well, and we see ourselves as an integral part of that success story. So, we have reasoned that we need to be creating better links with local business organisations of varying sizes, establishing better home-grown foundations.”
Davis admits that some business schools suffer from a perception of expensive elitism, but he stressed that Henley Business School is not like that. It merely offers quality-learning opportunities competitively priced to suit the budgets of all types of business.
“If local businesses have not sampled any of our learning programmes, all we ask is that they give us the chance to show them the true nature of Henley Business School.”
Details: Mike Davis
mike.davis@henley.ac.uk 01491-418889
www.henley.ac.uk
www.businessmag.co.uk
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – SEPTEMBER 2015
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