ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

James Barlow has worked in the University entrepreneurship space since 2002 and has been Commercial Advisor or Commercial Director for 16 start-ups, as well as consulting internationally on start-up strategy, enterprise education and training. Prior to working in Higher Education, James was a Performance Coach, Motivational Speaker and Strategy Consultant for FTSE listed companies and also worked in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Sales and Sales Management. He earned his BSc Honours Degree in Biochemistry from the University of Kent.  He is currently the Program Manager for Outreach at the NCIIA.

Here's what some IdeaLab participants had to say about the experience:

As a recent graduate in product design, I've only had experience conceptualizing and developing products and services alone, without considering the important steps of valuation and long term planning that we covered in this workshop.  Workshop participant, Portland State University, August 2011.

James is a fantastic facilitator, design thinker and idea coach, bar none. During our three-day IdeaLab, he engaged participants to reach deep and extracted an overwhelming stream of ideas making the workshop successful and vastly rewarding for all. He kept his finger on the pulse of the event and successfully made changes "on a dime" ensuring a contagious energy which kept participants working at high intensity and productivity levels. He opened minds and transformed zealous individual business people into collaborators. I would welcome any opportunity to work with James again. Workshop participant, Rice University, October 2010.