DCU Ryan Academy
Recent Events
US Embassy Visit – February 2010
"Robert Faucher, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy Dublin paid a visit to the Academy on 23rd February to address a gathering of chief executives and senior business people on the subject of US foreign and domestic policy and its implications for Irish business. Robert wove his address around the likely agenda for the upcoming meeting of the US President and Irish Taoiseach in the White House on St Patrick's Day 2010. His talk was fascinating and was followed by a lively question and answer session. Many of the attendees stayed around afterwards to meet Robert and to network."
Robert Faucher & Patrick Mc Dermott, DCU Trust
Robert Addressing the audience
Networking @ the event
Mid-Summer Networking Event
Mr. Eamon Gilmore, TD and Leader of the Labour Party delivered a lecture on ‘Fostering Entrepreneurship’ to a large gathering on Thursday 11th June. His speech was thought provoking and attendees appreciated the opportunity to gain an insight into the thinking and policy of the Labour Party Leader. All in all, it was a unique opportunity to meet “Ireland’s most popular leader”.
To view the speech, please download the attached pdf.
Lunchtime Lecture Series
This is a series of lunchtime lectures designed for business leaders and entrepreneurs. The aim is to stimulate debate on the current economic environment and the role of entrepreneurial leadership in resolving key issues facing companies operating in Ireland today.
To date, we have hosted 5 successful events in this series, Ciarán Dyar, Brody Sweeney, Tony Foley, Pat Brazel with the final lecture presented by Maurice Mason and Declan Ryan. This series of lectures is currently over for the summer and will resume again in September 2009.
The capacity audience were enthralled by Maurice Mason and Declan Ryan's story of the Low Cost Airline industry
Pat’s presentation drew fascinating lessons from the software industry and demonstrated how critical innovation will be to Ireland’s economic recovery.
Tony Foley delivered a strong dose of reality on how we managed to get ourselves in this economic “mess” and what we need to do to start the recovery. Entrepreneurship is going to be high on the agenda!
On 16th April, Brody Sweeney visited the Academy to deliver a lovely honest and enlightening presentation on what entrepreneurial leaders do in a recession.
The first lunchtime lecture was held on Thursday 12th March. Ciarán Dyar gave us some great insights in Responsibility Based Leadership and a lively debate resulted.
