Maryanne Johnston
Effective Spoken Communication
CivTech® 2.0 from the Scottish Government’s Digital Directorate launched in May 2017 with a series of Public Sector Challenges ranging from remote visitor monitoring at historic sites to outpatient re-design and a unique system to combat bird of prey persecution. Nine new Scottish companies presented their products and services to solve these real-world problems. […]
My warmest congratulations go to Dianne Teo of T30 Fitness Training and Jack Ng of Sansible Wearables on their success at the Scottish EDGE final last week. Their outstanding pitches won them £50k each to expand on their business plans! I have worked closely with Dianne and Jack over the past few weeks and months […]
Many congratulations to the successful APC candidates who I worked within the Autumn! I was delighted to hear of the five candidates’ success, four from Galbraith and one from Bell Ingram. Both firms maintain an excellent pass rate. I ran a half-day session with them where we worked on delivery and handling questions. The […]
Highlands and Islands Enterprise is sponsoring 4 places on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Entrepreneur Development Programme in January 2018, a week-long, high level, intensive executive education course teaching skills for high impact entrepreneurship held in Boston. I have been working with the 4 HIE sponsored companies who applied for the programme. My involvement has mainly […]
I was delighted to lead a session this week at Making IT Work For Women. The event, presented by Informatics Ventures and Women’s Enterprise Scotland, was the inaugural annual summit on female participation and thought leadership in the fast-growing tech industry. Making IT Work For Women aims to inspire and stimulate discussion, address some of the issues […]
Huge congratulations go to Dave Hughes, founder and CTO of Novosound on winning Converge Challenge 2017! Dave was presented with his prize, which includes £50,000 cash and £28,500 worth of business support, by Scotland’s First Minister at the Converge Challenge Awards Dinner in Glasgow. Novosound aims to revolutionise the ultrasound industry by developing systems that […]
“A champion is not made when they succeed; a champion is made when you look back at the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months they have spent preparing.” Eluid Kipchoge – Kenyan long-distance runner and 2016 Olympic marathon gold medallist. The levels of sporting success enjoyed by elite athletes like Andy Murray, Paula […]
We have hit the ground running this month with workshops both north and south of the border for Scottish Enterprise, CivTech, Citi, London Business School, Royal Society of Edinburgh, SmartestEnergy, Bell Ingram, Galbraith…phew! Great variety and always a pleasure to work with such enthusiastic groups and individuals. We are looking forward to continuing our busy […]
My warmest congratulations go to Michael Harkins, creator of the alternative swimming aid Turtle Pack, on his huge success at the Scottish EDGE final last week. Michael’s outstanding pitch won him the top prize of £100k and to put the icing on the cake, Turtle Pack also won £10k from the Wildcard EDGE. I have […]
