Enterprise Tuesday: Building resilience in entrepreneurship – why investing and developing your resilience can be a key predictor of success
4 Feb 2025
18:30 -21:00
Times are shown in local time.
Open to: All
Cambridge Judge Business School
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
Join us for Enterprise Tuesday
Entrepreneurs and innovators, often spend considerable time focused on business model strategies, funding, and go-to-market plans, but they frequently overlook the importance of resilience. Research has consistently shown that resilience is a key predictor of entrepreneurial success and entrepreneurs with high levels of resilience were more likely to achieve their goals. Additionally, they tend to report higher levels of job satisfaction.
Entrepreneurship is a constant cycle of successes and setbacks so founders must be able to adapt in the face of constant change. Cultivating resilience is essential for entrepreneurs as it enhances the ability to navigate both the personal and professional challenges associated with starting and growing a venture. Resilient entrepreneurs are more adept at recovering from setbacks, ensuring they remain flexible and responsive.
In this session, we discuss the importance of developing resilience, viewing challenges and setbacks as opportunities for learning and growth rather than personal failures.
Register now and get ready for an evening filled with insightful conversations and networking opportunities within the Cambridge community.
Speakers
Dr Sarah Mardle
CEO and Founder, Alma Business Consulting
Dr Sarah Mardle is a seasoned leader with extensive experience in healthcare, from scaling start-ups to executive roles in multinational organisations.
After many decades in the industry, she founded Alma Business Consulting to empower entrepreneurs through tailored consultancy and coaching, combining strategic insight with hands-on expertise.
A certified coach and dedicated mentor, Sarah contributes to the University of Cambridge’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, supporting programmes like Cambridge Judge Business School’s Ignite and Accelerate.
Her passion for fostering resilience and leadership in entrepreneurship is grounded in a career marked by innovation and sustainable growth.
Mari Williams
Leadership Therapist and Coach, The Mind Architect
Mari Williams, The Mind Architect is a Leadership Therapist & Coach, and a Mediator. She is author of ‘It begins with YOU’ and host of the podcast ‘The Alternative Leader’.
She specialises in working with business leaders and HNWI’s. She enables them to identify what isn’t working for them both at home and in their career.
She helps them find calm in the chaos and removes embedded beliefs and behaviours that no longer serves them allowing them to lead their life intentionally.
Mari lives in Cambridge and loves to learn and to travel.
Matthew Cleevely
Partner, Cleevely & Partners Ltd
Matthew Cleevely MEng (Oxon) MPhil (Cantab) MIET – experienced entrepreneur and mentor. As the founder and Chair of 10to8, a global appointment and scheduling software business, he successfully grew the SaaS business to a highly successful exit in 2023.
He is a member of the Cambridge Angels and manages the investments of the Cleevely family office. Matthew advises early-stage technology businesses, has an academic interest in government policy and economic growth through entrepreneurship, and has a side-line in managing the sale of technology businesses (sold 6 in the last 6 years).
He is investor/director in a handful of tech/bio companies is Cambridge
Rob Thomson
Director, Flagstaff Advisory
Rob has just completed two years as AGL Communication’s Chief
Executive Officer after 34 years in the British Army.
Educated at Cambridge University (History) and Kings College London (Defence Studies), Rob was commissioned into the Royal Green Jackets in 1988, which became The Rifles in 2007.
A frontline soldier, he has served on operations at home in Northern Ireland and abroad in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
He was awarded his Distinguished Service Order for service in Afghanistan in 2009 and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2014, also for service in Afghanistan.
Most recently, Rob has been more of a soldier diplomat, first as the UK’s Defence Attaché in Paris and then as the Administrator of the UK Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus and Commander British Forces Cyprus.
Rob has a love of history and all aspects of leadership, inspired in part by his time as an instructor at the British Army’s Royal Military Academy Sandhurst but also by the privilege of command. He has led teams of very different shapes and sizes. He is learning to be a coach.
He is now advising, consulting and coaching on leadership, strategy and communications.