Peter Harrington

Family-man and serial entrepreneur, Peter Harrington has a deep interest in education. Following graduation from York University in 1989, he created his first business and over 15 years started and grew companies in the fields of research, marketing, design, print and consultancy.

Since 2005, Peter has been at the heart of Venture Simulations Ltd, a company that builds digital learning solutions and SimVenture business simulation technology for people seeking to acquire business start-up/scale-up skills. Whilst his professional roles involve much travel and reading, Peter is also at home when working with students and staff as an Entrepreneur in Residence at London School of Economics and London South Bank University

• Peter's profile of Romano
• Read about Frank Dawson's centre where Peter volunteered here
• Request a free personal licence in exchange for feedback here
• Simventure website
• Seth Godin on "getting into a famous college" and the importance of Non-Team Activities in his Akimbo podcast here
• Peter Harrington twitter
• Peter writes the blog 'The Hitchiker's Guide to Entrepreneurship'
• Margaret Heffernen whose TED Summit workshop on gratitude is described. Her books and TED talks are excellent.
• Richard Lucas's father JR Lucas dedicated one of his books (Space, Time and Causality to all his teachers

About your host Richard Lucas

Richard is a business and social entrepreneur who founded or invested in more than 30 businesses, Richard has been a TEDx event organiser, supports the pro-entrepreneurship ecosystem, and leads entrepreneurship workshops at all levels: from pre- to leading business schools. Richard was born in Oxford and moved to Poland in 1991. Read more here.