by Glenn | Mar 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Winning hearts and minds: Getting onto your LEP’s agenda I’ve heard it many times – in person and on discussion sites such as LinkedIn groups “my LEP will not listen, they don’t seem to understand how important this issue is!!!”...
by Glenn | Jan 17, 2014 | Local Growth, Uncategorized
Its difficult to break out of the mindset of grants and revenue-funded advice, isn’t it? Here at Athey Consulting, we’ve been doing some thinking about how to stretch budgets further to increase the benefits to local communities. Here’s 5 ideas on...
by Glenn | Jan 3, 2014 | Athey Consulting, Uncategorized
2013 has been a year of great learning experiences and challenges! I transitioned from from full time executive leadership back into consultancy. My unique offer was made even more special by having a lot of grounded experience running a LEP. As a result, I have a...
by Glenn | Oct 24, 2013 | Local Growth, Uncategorized
In this article, Glenn Athey asks “what does the UK Government want from Local Growth Strategies?” that are currently being put together by Local Enterprise Partnerships. LEPs face one fundamental question – how they would deliver local growth better than...
by Glenn | Jul 23, 2013 | Consultancy, Uncategorized
LEPs – I’ve been through it at the sharp end! As you might have gathered from my CV, I’ve just finished working for 18 months at Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Enterprise Partnership, with 14 of those months spent as the guy running it. I...
by Glenn | Jul 23, 2013 | International, Uncategorized
Diversity and local context reigns, and national one size fits all policies will not catalyse economic growth and renaissance – this is the fundamental lesson from studying international development and the lessons for UK economies in 2011 I spent 6 months as a...