Yolanda Achlada

Yolanda's research focuses on the Entrepreneurial Mindset in large, established, multinational corporations. The project's interest is unlocking the entrepreneurial potential through inclusive global talent strategies to create a corporate environment in which the workforce is inspired to innovate, manage with creativity and achieve the balance of exploration and exploitation.

Having nearly twenty years of experience as a Human Resource Executive in well-established organisations in the Banking sector, Yolanda has also collaborated with entrepreneurs of small-medium enterprises, as a qualified coach, in their endeavours to grow. She set out this research to investigate if an Entrepreneurial Mindset is a "mission impossible" for a large organisation or an opportunity at times of adversity.

Yolanda has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and a Master's Degree in Human Resource Management. She is a qualified assessor for Assessment Centres, a Global Career Development Facilitator, and holds a CIPD and an Association for Coaching membership. She is an advocate of Montessori philosophy and voluntarily collaborates as a Steps Ahead and a Career Ready Mentor. As an Enterprise Adviser she supports the senior leadership team of educational organisations strategically to develop and evaluate their careers plan.

Master of Science in Human Resource Management, Cardiff University, 2002

Bachelor of Science in Economincs, University of Athens, 2001