Carol Foussat

Background

Carol Foussat is the Programme Leader of the Business Growth Programme. She has been working on the programme since 2005 and has helped dozens of companies transform their businesses and themselves. Carol first came to Cranfield in 1998 to do the two year Executive MBA, specialising in organisational change and leadership - two topics she believes are totally inter-twined. She covers these subjects on the Business Growth Programme.

While running the BGP keeps her busy, Carol also runs a couple of BGP Advisory Boards for business owners who have been through the programme and want to continue the learning and development journey with fellow past participants. This coaching and mentoring work is also done for other companies.

Current activities

Carol Foussat is the Programme Leader of the Business Growth Programme. She has been working on the programme since 2005 and has helped dozens of companies transform their businesses and themselves. Carol first came to Cranfield in 1998 to do the two year Executive MBA, specialising in organisational change and leadership - two topics she believes are totally inter-twined. She covers these subjects on the Business Growth Programme.

While running the BGP keeps her busy, Carol also runs a couple of BGP Advisory Boards for business owners who have been through the programme and want to continue the learning and development journey with fellow past participants. This coaching and mentoring work is also done for other companies.

Carol's background includes corporate planning in British Steel, strategy at the Department of Trade and Industry, economic and strategy consulting at KPMG Management Consulting, business development, strategic marketing and strategy at the AA, strategy and website creation/innovation for Centrica, working with Intrapreneurs at Henley College and leadership assessment for The Thinking Partnership. Her achievements include setting up theaa.com in 2000, having responsibility for delivering 1,000,000 car insurance policies and 500,000 home insurance policies, chairing meetings with senior politicians, and assessing senior management at various companies including Virgin Media, and the FSA. And redesigning the Business Growth Programme! She holds a Cranfield MBA, where she received the Strategy Prize, and holds a Cambridge MA in Economics. She is accredited in various psychometric tools. She has two children, one dog and two small allotments which are never free from weeds!

Carol also runs an entrepreneur's club for ambitious owner managers.