May 2011

For immediate release

Mind Your Own Business

Leeds Metropolitan University is hosting an event on Tuesday 14 June to

support business leaders in the creative sector in exploring ways to grow and
adapt their businesses within the current world economy.

The ‘Mind Your Own Business’ conference, held at the Mint Hotel and funded
by the West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network (WYLLN) , will be led by Dr
Chris Seeley, a world renowned facilitator of action learning with successful
projects across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

Taking a ‘World Café’ style format, the event will allow participants to hold
discussions in small groups around a table, allowing them to share
knowledge, generate ideas and stimulate innovative thinking whilst
networking. Topics, facilitated by Dr Seeley, will include how mind spaces
can be created and how practices can be sustained.

Julia Calver, Head of Cultural and Creative Industries Unit at Leeds

Metropolitan University, commented: “It is really import during these
challenging times to find ways of re-thinking and re-visiting our thinking and
approach to problems, so we are delighted to be exploring this with a world
class facilitator in an inspiring venue with innovative creative practitioners,
organisations and academics from across the region.”
Dr Seeley is currently working in collaborative high technology and
sustainability projects with clients that include the International Labour
Organisation and the Welsh Assembly Government. Increasingly, she has
found herself using the visual arts, storytelling, clowning, improvisation and
forum theatre in her educational, business and development work practices.

The event will run from 12 to 5pm and includes lunch and refreshments.
Places are free of charge and limited to 70 places. Please contact
J.Calver@leedsmet.ac.uk for further information and to book a place.

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For further details please contact Carrie Braithwaite in the News and Media
team at Leeds Met on 0113 812 3022 or email c.braithwaite@leedsmet.ac.uk

Notes for editors:

 Leeds Metropolitan University has 30,000 students and 3, 000 staff.

 The WYLLN is a partnership of higher education institutions, further
education colleges and other organisations throughout West Yorkshire
all committed to providing quality vocational progression for learners to
progress into higher education.
 The University has achieved its best ever Research Assessment
Exercise results. Sports-Related Studies is in the top 6 institutions in
the country with research rated at the highest levels of 4* and 3*.
 Leeds Met has been rated the top university in the UK for its language
support, accommodation quality and learning spaces in the 2010
Autumn Wave of the International Student Barometer and sixth in the
world for the quality of its lectures.
 The University’s award-winning learning environments include
Broadcasting Place, voted the best tall building in the world in 2010 by
the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
(CTBUH) and also winner of the 2010 Leeds Architecture Awards New
Building category, the iconic Rose Bowl building, awarded Best
 Commercial Property Development in the 2009 Yorkshire Property
Awards and the pioneering Carnegie Village student accommodation.
 Leeds Metropolitan is one of only a handful of UK universities to have
been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard.