Role
Professor Michael Hayman is a campaigner for small businesses and the UK growth agenda. He has served in volunteer roles at the forefront of the national enterprise effort. He is chair of the Small Business Charter, a national body he helped to create working with government, business schools and small businesses. The Small Business Charter is delivering the Help To Grow: Management Course which provides the expertise of world-class business schools to small businesses around the UK.
Career overview
Michael is an entrepreneur, broadcaster and author.
Co-founder & Chair of the campaigns firm Seven Hills & co-author of Mission (Penguin Random House).
Chair of the Small Business Charter, the award for the UK’s world-class business schools.
Chair of Entrepreneurs at the private bank and wealth manager Coutts.
Chair of the Global Britain Challenge for the British Chambers of Commerce.
Member of HM Government’s Help To Grow: Management Advisory Council.
Chair of the Advisory Council, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Honorary Professor, University of London where he also holds an Honorary Doctorate.
Hosts the podcast Change Makers,contributing editor Country & Town House magazine and a feature writer for CityAM.
Co-founded the national campaign for early stage enterprise, StartUp Britain. Supported the development of Start-Up Loans & Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme.
Former commissioner City Growth Commission, non-exec at regeneration agency Creative Sheffield & Honorary Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Awarded MBE for services to enterprise promotion, entrepreneurship & education, Deputy Lieutenant for Surrey & Freeman City of London.
Research areas
- Small business
- Purpose and impact
- Marketing communication
Publications
Co-author of Mission: How The Best In Business Break Through (Penguin Random House).
Press expertise
- Business
- Careers
- Celebrity
- Economics
- Education
- Marketing