On Friday 9 October young entrepreneur James Davey visited Shiplake College, to give a talk to Year 12 pupils currently studying for a Business BTEC. The talk covered James’s own personal experience of setting up and running a business, addressing challenges that budding entrepreneur’s may face, and ways in which these can be overcome.
James’s business, The Davey Partnership, helps young people to achieve their full potential by coaching peak performance strategies and mindsets. The company works to create a knowledge partnership between young people of different ages to share self development skills that are relevant to the young person. James visited Shiplake not only with the intention of sharing his own experiences creating and setting up a business, but also to fuel ambition and achievement, as the Year 12 pupils move onwards into their professional lives.
As well as offering advice on the best ways to succeed inside the classroom walls, James spoke to the Year 12 pupils about different paths that are available for school leavers. He considered various career options as well as the possibility of starting a business, doing an apprenticeship or gaining experience through an internship. The pupils left feeling highly motivated, praising James’s honest and straight-forward approach and appreciative of his wealth of experience, which took into account real-life issues that he himself had faced when deciding to start his business venture alone. Teacher Mr Kevin Bloor was impressed with the talk, noting that his ‘contribution perfectly managed to strengthen the brand of the Business Department, whose mission objective is ‘learning today for tomorrow.’’
