Which familiar face has been appointed to help front new business school?
By Andrew Merrell | 15th October 2018
A familiar face to many in the Gloucestershire business community has been named as a key member at the University of Gloucestershire's new School of Business and Technology.
Stewart Barnes, managing director of QuoLux, has been appointed a director of the Centre for Innovation and Productivity at the multi-million-pound development at the university's Oxstall's campus in Longlevens.
A visiting fellow of the University of Gloucestershire since 2016, Mr Barnes has also become a prolific author of academic chapters, peer-reviewed papers, not to mention the widely acclaimed book LEADing Small Business - Business Growth through Leadership Development.
"It's a privilege to contribute to the vitally important body of work that explores the role of leadership in business," said Mr Barnes.
"This has been a passion of mine for many years; first through my own experience of the challenges of running, growing, and turning around businesses in the UK and internationally.
"Then, in supporting other firms, of all sizes and sectors, to develop their own leadership potential through our work together at QuoLux.
"The worlds of business and academia are very different, and yet each has so much to offer the other."
Since 2015, the University's business school has partnered QuoLux's leadership programmes LEAD, GOLD and GAIN, accrediting the 'real world' learning of the local leaders who participate to the highest academic standards of Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and MBA.
It is the first work-based learning MBA of its kind - the only 'practical MBA' designed specifically for the leaders of growing businesses. This year that MBA is being pitched to an international market too.
Mr Barnes himself is no stranger to life as a student at the university either - currently working on his PhD researching leadership in small and medium-sized businesses.
Malcolm Prowle, professor of business improvement and a director of the Centre for Innovation and Productivity, said: "Stewart also brings a good understanding of university business research in his role as PhD researcher and as a collaborator with myself and others on productivity research in business."
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