September 08, 2011 at 09:01am
A Message From Our Founder
As founder of Smaller Earth and Your Big Year, Chris Arnold is exceptionally excited for this year’s event.
"Last Year’s finalists were so incredibly impressive and showed how people from different countries can work together to make things happen. They had a hugely positive impact on me and I am now expecting this year’s competitors to do the same. There are many ways to make positive impact and the most important thing is to try and do so at every opportunity."
Chris’s professional experience is in leading and developing Business. An entrepreneurial spirit has put him in a position of Director in a number of companies and he has a motivational style of leadership.
His increasing success and experience has provided him with the chance to acquire new skills, like guest speaker, and also to become part of a number of steering groups and boards for regional and international organisations. Amongst others, these have included being Chair of the Further Education Enterprise Hubs Project, being on the Regional Board of the National Enterprise Academy, and now being on the Steering Group for the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Congress - to be held in Liverpool!
His first goal however is to aggressively integrate cultural exchange and travel into education, citizenship and personal development. For Chris, traveling with a purpose and with the idea of giving something to an unfamiliar community is the best route to accelerated learning. He also clearly has a passion for facilitating entrepreneurship, as shown by some of the specific boards and steering groups he has worked on.
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