Karen Williams Middleton is a at the Division of Management of Organizational Renewal and Entrepreneurship (MORE) at Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg Sweden. Karen holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Tufts University and a Masters in Business Administration (with honors) from Babson College.
Karen defended her thesis, Developing Entrepreneurial Behavior, in December 2010 – emphasizing the importance of legitimacy and reduction of uncertainty behavior development through interactive learning and pre-emptive action, supported by a role-set. Karen holds an operational role as a Course manager in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Dynamic Organizing at the venture creation programs at Chalmers University and the University of Gothenburg, and continues to conduct research in the areas such as entrepreneurial behavior and learning.
has spent 25 years working in the education and development sectors in South Africa. She is passionate about finding innovative ways to for young people and economic development opportunities for adults. Her particular area of experience is in managing creative teams to produce systems, processes, materials and projects in the field of entrepreneurship.
Margie is a founder of the Triple Trust Organisation , established in 1988, to assist South Africans marginalized by apartheid to establish businesses. She founded the South African Institute for Entrepreneurship in 1996 to continue the work of growing young South Africans to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and assist them to convert these into habitual behaviours. She is still a director on both of these organisation’s boards. Margie is currently responsible for strategy and innovation at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation which was established in 2005 by Mr Allan Gray, founder of Allan Gray Limited. This company, founded in 1973, is one of the largest privately owned investment management firms in Southern Africa with R232 billion assets under management. The Foundation, established in 2005, selects young South Africans with high potential, pays for their education at school and university and provides them with access to entrepreneurial rolemodels, information, mentors and mindset activating activities.
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