Steven Hess

An entrepreneur and educator at heart Steven now focusses his time and energy on executive coaching, business and personal growth and transformation consulting and mentoring the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Program. Prior he is a three-time founder, one exit to marketing services giant Omnicom, one he set up one of the first incubators and one he exited to a partner.  Steven has led strategy teams in the global consumer, media and automotive space and is now discovering the effects of mental and physical wellbeing on productivity, effectiveness and energy.

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Is this global pandemic time for the planet to pause?

In the midst of a global pandemic our leaders are necessarily focused on the immediate.  Survival – in life and in work. Entrepreneurs and executives alike are shoring up business, optimising current operations and cashflow; the need to stay afloat taking precedence over the long view. But with the passing of this crisis, may there come a sustained shift in values?

Portrait of the entrepreneur as a young founder

The word entrepreneur was first coined by the French some 200 years ago. Today its meaning and cultural context would be almost unrecognisable to its originators.