Enterprise Tuesday 2017: Joining the dots

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• Sir Tim Smit KBE, Executive Vice Chairman & Co-founder, The Eden Project
• Tuesday 07 February 2017, 18:00-21:00
• LT0 Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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None can doubt that Sir Tim Smit KBE , Executive Vice Chairman & Co-founder, The Eden Project, is a man of vision. It is demonstrated through his award winning successes, of which the Eden Project is well known. But, with vision, you have to see ahead where to join the dots if it is all to have meaning, potential and possibility. How do you make the necessary connections which will count when you have to get people on side, despite the odds and when maybe they don’t see what you do see as possible? How do you convince people of your belief and develop a narrative of optimism that they can buy into? Tim will explain how he develops trust, inspires people and builds his team and wider networks in our upcoming Enterprise Tuesday session on 7 Feb 2017.

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About Sir Tim:

Sir Tim Smit KBE was born in Holland on 25 September 1954. He read Archaeology and Anthropology at Durham University. Tim worked for ten years in the music industry as composer/producer in both rock music and opera. In 1987 Tim moved to Cornwall he and John Nelson together ‘discovered’ and then restored the Lost Gardens of Heligan. Tim remains a Director of the gardens to the present day.

Tim is Executive Vice-Chairman, and Co-founder of the Award winning Eden Project near St Austell in Cornwall. Eden began as a dream in 1995 and opened its doors to the public in 2000, since when more than 18 million people have come to see what was once a sterile pit turned into a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture symbolic of human endeavour. Eden has contributed over £1.7 billion into the Cornish economy. Eden is proud of its success in changing people’s perception of the potential for and the application of science, by communicating and interpreting scientific concepts through the use of art, drama and storytelling as well as living up to its mission to take a pivotal role in local regeneration. It demonstrates once and for all that sustainability is not about sandals and nut cutlets, it is about good business practice and the citizenship values of the future.

Tim is a Trustee, Patron and Board Member of a number of statutory and voluntary bodies both locally and nationally. He has received a variety of national awards including The Royal Society of Arts Albert Medal (2003). In 2002 he was awarded an Honorary CBE in the New Years Honours List and In January 2011 he was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Her Majesty the Queen in recognition of his services to public engagement with science. This appointment was made substantive in June 2012 when he became a British Citizen. He has received Honorary Doctorates and Fellowships from a number of Universities. Tim was voted ‘Great Briton of 2007’ in the Environment category of the Morgan Stanley Great Britons Awards. In 2011 Tim was given a special award at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, which recognises the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. Tim has taken part in a quantity of television and radio programmes and has been the subject of ‘This is Your Life’ and a guest on ‘Desert Island Discs’. He is a regular speaker at conferences, dinners, Awards Ceremonies and other events. Tim is the author of books about both Heligan and Eden and he has contributed to publications on a wide variety of subjects. He lives in Lostwithiel, Cornwall and in his free time he enjoys reading, film, music and art.

This talk is part of the Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• Enterprise Tuesday 2016-2017
• Entrepreneurship Centre
• Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School
• LT0 Cambridge University Engineering Department

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