Episode 06 Ketan Makwana Business Disruptor and International Speaker

The gift this week is my guest Ketan Makwana, I first saw him speak at an event in London 2 years ago. He is a well-known speaker both internationally and on the TEDx circuit. To put that is context, In 2017 he travelled just under  120,000 miles did 42 cities and over 250 events.

The man is a serial entrepreneur and mentor and has started, scaled a sold multiple businesses in the last seven years.

Our story begins in 2011, for various social economic and political reasons August that years saw riots on the streets of London.

Ketan's rise to prominence was due to his response to that summer madness. He could see the issue was in part to the emerging skills gap between education and employment.

In 2012 Ketan founded and delivered an event called Youth Enterprise Live. It was a project backed by the Prime Minister of the day David Cameron. The project was the UK’s largest event focussed on Education, Employment and Enterprise for 15-30-year-olds.

It was an outstanding success. In our conversation, you will hear how that event was conceived and how at the last moment a hitch put it all at risk.