Guest blog: Birgit Kehrer, Change Kitchen
I had a really stimulating time at the Social Enterprise West Midlands Summer School here in Leamington Spa and I learned lots of invaluable insights into issues of leadership, social enterprise collaboration, and many other things. The sessions were fantastic in helping to clear lots of issues in my head and give me ideas on how to develop as a director of ChangeKitchen CIC to make the enterprise even more successful and therefore achieving our social aims in a better way.
I met many interesting and great leaders at this Summer School and feel very happy to be part of a sector with so many inspirational and committed people and organisations.
The most inspirational points – which gave me a real buzz – for me where the two different talks by Peter Holbrook; one very funny after dinner speech and a more serious one on the second day, plus a good chat at the bar. I am encouraged and inspired that the Peter is new(ish) CEO of the Social Enterprise Coalition, as I feel he is a passionate leader with fresh ideas and a strong belief and commitment to social justice .
Peter is a great role model for leadership for me, so thank you for organising this, SEWM and thanks Peter, for sharing your vision. I feel even more positive about the future of the SE sector as a whole after Peter’s talk this morning and am excited to be part of it.
