Karen Arnold

Karen Arnold (born 1964)[1] is a British company director and a promoter of entrepreneurship and business education. Since 2006 she has been the chief executive of The Enterprise and Skills Company Limited, based in Wimborne Minster, Dorset.[2]

Life

Arnold grew up in Port Isaac, Cornwall, and studied economics and accountancy. Her Enterprise and Skills Company, founded together with Dr John Knowles, is devoted to promoting entrepreneurship among teenagers.[3] This includes organising competitions in which teenagers briefly set up and run their own businesses.[4]

She has been quoted as saying: "The new buzz word is employability and it is never too soon to encourage students to understand that as well as achieving their academic grades, they need to have a broad portfolio of employability skills which include working together, problem solving and other key skills.”[5]

Arnold has been a director of the Dorset Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and a governor of Weymouth College and of The Bishop of Winchester Academy.[6]

Awards

In 2009 she received the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion,[7][8] and in 2014 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Bournemouth University for services to education and the charitable sector.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ company check ltd (26 November 2015). "MS KAREN ARNOLD director information. Free director information". Company Check. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  2. ↑ Will Frampton (13 October 2014). "Students get down to business for Enterprise Challenge". Daily Echo.
  3. ↑ Tim Saunders, Startups shining bright, Dorset Business, Friday 31 July 2009. Accessed 26 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Will Frampton, Students get down to business for Enterprise Challenge, Bournemouth Daily Echo, Monday, 13 October 2014. Accessed 26 November 2015.
  5. ↑ Plymouth students create smoothies and perfume in apprentice-style challenge, Plymouth Herald, December 13, 2013. Accessed 26 November 2015.
  6. ↑ Citation for doctorate, Bournemouth University. Accessed 26 November 2015.
  7. ↑ Tim Saunders (4 May 2009). "Karen's Queen's Award honour". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  8. 1 2 "It's a doctorate for Karen" (12 November 2014). Cornish Guardian . Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  9. ↑ "University tourism and business graduates celebrate" (7 November 2014). Bournemouth Daily Echo. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
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