Dr Stephen King is a semi-retired senior academic and experienced manager. He has spent most of his career at the University of Leeds, England. Before joining the University of Leeds he worked as a business analyst for Rover cars and a Senior Research Fellow at the Advanced Technology Centre, University of Warwick. Even further back he has worked as a programmer for large software houses on banking and communications systems and as a lecturer in Computer Science at Bradford University where he developed a taste for teaching and research. So he is a techie turned manager and academic with a passion for programme design and connecting students to practise and practitioners. Stephen has held a number of senior roles in Leeds University Business School (LUBS) most notably as Head of Management Division (the largest division) and as Director for both the Full-time and Executive MBA programmes. He also founded and led the School’s only overseas-delivered programme: the MSc in Business Management run in conjunction with the German Graduate School of Management and Law in Heilbronn, near Stuttgart in southern Germany. He is a firm believer in the mantra of MBA pioneer Harvard’s Professor Srikant Datar that education should be about three things: Knowing, Doing, and Being. He strives to ensure that all students that work with him grow in all three dimensions. More recently he has led the successful MSc in Enterprise & Entrepreneurship at the Centre for Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Studies at LUBS. He also has experience in healthcare innovation and has taught innovation to Medical School students at Leeds University.Stephen has extensive international education experience, having taught for 6 years on the Leeds MBA delivered in Singapore, as well as leading and teaching on the MSc Business Management in southern Germany for 12 years. He has led MBA study tours to China and Brazil as well as hosting MBA alumni and recruitment events in India, China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Nigeria.