Keanna’s winding route to entrepreneurship (via a Dual Accredited degree)
Written by Dave Waller Monday 12 August 2024![Image of graduates](https://www.managers.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/unnamed-6.jpg)
Few things are more inspiring than a young parent challenging themselves to further their education.
In September 2023, Keanna Lawrence was ready to quit her business management degree at Solent University. She’d had a young daughter midway through the course. Now her budget was stretched by nursery bills and she was tired of having to ask people to help with childcare.
But a single coffee with the head of the university’s mentorship programme completely changed her thinking.
“He asked what I wanted to do,” Keanna recalls. “I said I was interested in procurement and project management, but that I’d like to run my own recruitment agency eventually. He said: ‘Why don’t you start one now?’ I just looked at him blankly. I was thinking: ‘I can’t do that.’”
But she could.
Read on: How CMI resources helped Keanna to “dig deeper”
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