Welcome to Ireland - 2015! - Self Reliant Leadership

Here we are in Dublin at Trinity College starting our two-week course on Leadership & Entrepreneurship in Ireland! We’ve got a great group this year – 7 MBA students, 6 business students, one teaching assistant, and a videographer for the first day. The students are diverse in background, perspective, and future goals.

Our focus will be on working with start-up organization on real work, and studying the leaders of those organizations. This year, we’re privileged to be working with:

Emmet Brown, CEO, Nuritas
Conor Toolan, CEO, iData
Eoin Costello, Startup Ireland

In addition, we have a pretty robust itinerary for Dublin & Belfast:

Sat, May 23
- Kilminham Jail
- Guinness Storehouse
- Welcome Dinner
Sun, May 24 – FREE DAY!
Mon, May 25 –- guest lecturers
- Sarah Scannell, Dublin Commissioner for Startups Office
- Enda Madden, CEO/Founder
- Andrew Parish, Entrepreneur – former CEO
- Kieran Daly, Entrepreneur – former CEO
- Jack Teeling, Founder & CEO, Teeling Whiskey Company
Tue, May 26
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade at Iveagh House – Ruaidhrí (Roy) Dowling, Director of US Affairs
- Tour Dail by Michael O’Brien
May 26-28
- Work with assigned companies on projects and leader study
Fri, May 29 – Travel to Belfast – guest lecturers via Bryan Keating
- Titanic Dock Tour)
- Gary Hamilton, ex CEO Omiino / Xilinx
- Colm McGoldrick, ex CEO Mail Distiller currently M8A lead for Proof Point
- Prof Alistair Fee
- 00 Bryan Keating, CIP Partnership
Sat, May 30 – 9:30am – Tour Belfast via Black Cabs
Sun, May 31 – Travel back to Dublin (FREE AFTERNOON!)
- Tour The Teeling Whiskey Distillery
Mon, June 1 –group projects & leader study
- Free afternoon? (Monday is a national bank holiday for cultural & sporting events).
June 2-3 – work with assigned companies on projects and leader study (4 days total)
Thu, June 4 –
- Address by Minister for Foreign Affairs & Trade Charlie Flanagan T.D. at Dublin Castle.
- US Embassy Annex briefing via Jen McAndrew, Deputy Director of Public Affairs, and Finola Cunningham, Foreign Commercial Service Director
- Digital Hub (aka NRDC) – Amy Neale and Sarah O’Farrell, Community Coordinator)
- Farewell Dinner with keynote speaker