Manchester-based hospitality guide and main occasion administration specialist, Liz Taylor, has been chosen to affix the College of Central Lancashire (UCLan) as an Entrepreneur in Residence.

Becoming a member of a group of enterprise figureheads from throughout the northwest area, Liz will name upon her 35 years of expertise on the forefront of the UK’s occasion business, her in-depth information of the hospitality sector and acumen as a enterprise founder and entrepreneur, to reinforce the scholars’ expertise on the college.

Liz Taylor, CEO of Taylor Lynn Company and MD of Liz Taylor Consultancy mentioned: “I’ve all the time felt you will need to nurture younger expertise and contribute to the schooling of younger folks; and never simply these learning in programs related to my business. However all these college students at UCLan with whom I can share my experiences and concepts on what it takes to change into a profitable entrepreneur.”

UCLan selects its instructional contributors in a stringent vetting and recruitment course of, with solely those that can genuinely add actual perception, time and expertise to college students being chosen for the celebrated Entrepreneur in Residence programme. The entrepreneurs have interaction with college students from a wide range of programs by means of a mixture of masterclasses, keynotes, and Q&A periods. As well as, they could present modern tasks for college students to work on and advise on curriculum related to their business.

Professor Sue Smith, performing affiliate dean and director of the centre for SME and enterprise growth, College of Central Lancashire, mentioned: “We’re delighted Liz has joined our rising variety of Entrepreneurs in Residence who signify among the most interesting entrepreneurs within the northwest. We’re actually trying ahead to working with Liz in serving to our college students and UCLan thrive from her information and experience.”

Liz Taylor is a CEO and founding father of two thriving companies in Manchester – Taylor Lynn Company a number one company and personal occasion administration firm. TLC works with a variety of personal shoppers, along with world leaders, blue-chip firms, charities, sports activities manufacturers, retail giants, and media companies to create occasions proper throughout the UK and Europe.

And as MD of Liz Taylor Consultancy, Liz supplies a luxurious hospitality consultancy providing area of interest advertising and marketing to excessive degree manufacturers. LTC has labored with companies reminiscent of GG Hospitality’s Lodge Soccer and Inventory Change Lodge, Victor’s Eating places, Tom Kerridge’s Bull and Bear, Lone Star Boutique Lodge & Suites, Barbados, St Brelade’s Bay Lodge, Jersey, and the Cheshire occasions venue, Tatton Estates.

This distinctive set of expertise, plus over three many years as one of many north west’s main businesswomen makes her the perfect candidate for the Entrepreneur in Residence programme, which can utilise her real-world experience to reinforce college students’ studying.

Liz added: “As an entrepreneur in residence I will have interaction with college students extra commonly and in a extra structured and significant means, working alongside some extremely profitable businesspeople. Hopefully, I can carry one other perspective to the desk and spotlight the advantages of working within the occasions and hospitality industries which have given me not simply an thrilling and worthwhile profession path, however the alternative to journey the world and meet fascinating folks from all walks of life.”

Pictured from left foreground are: Alison Hitchen, Pam Steed, professor Steven Rhoden, Michelle Bondesio, Russell Hogarth and from proper foreground: Rupert Gatty, Glen Higson, professor Sue Smith, Liz Taylor and Joanne Boyd.