Ross Duncan – International Ambassador for Dyslexia

December 23, 2020

Banking on the future but with interest

Keith Gray is the Honorary Life Governor of the Royal Canadian Golf Association. Now retired, he held down a successful career as a banking executive, starting off at the bottom rung as a bank messenger/junior clerk and steadily moving up the career ladder. During his time working for a bank,…READ MORE

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November 28, 2020

The rise and rise of Sahar Mansoor

Sahar Mansoor is a social entrepreneur and an environmentalist. She is the founder and CEO of the Bengaluru (India) based zero-waste social enterprise. Sahar attended Cambridge University studying environmental economics and environmental law. Upon leaving she worked for the World Health Organisation. For her, this was an incredible experience…READ MORE

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November 14, 2020

Never Judge a Book by its Cover

A lawyer by profession, Sam Rapp is also an accomplished playwright and poet[1]. Like so many artists this year, she will not be performing her regular show called “The Amazing Dyslexic Poetry Show” at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, or taking her plays, cancelled due to the Covid 19 pandemic. What…READ MORE

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November 12, 2020

The Godmother of Entrepreneurs

If Duncan Bannatyne is the godfather of entrepreneurs from Clydebank, then surely Alison Edgar is Clydebank’s ‘Entrepreneur’s Godmother’ and just like Duncan Bannatyne, she too is dyslexic Growing up in a flat near Glasgow she got her first taste of working in the hospitably industry. By the age of 21…READ MORE

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May 23, 2020

Brother Powers, Gandys – Rob/Paul Forkan

Rob and Paul Forkan are social entrepreneurs and the proud owners of a charitable foundation called Gandys which they set up in 2012. Gandys was originally set up to support ‘Orphans for Orphans’, to aid communities in different parts of the world for underprivileged children providing them with education, medication…READ MORE

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May 9, 2020

Virtual English Teacher-Ecree

When two minds come together they are either likely to clash like planets or will fuse together to work harmoniously towards a bigger purpose. In the case of Jamey Heit and Robin Donaldson of Ecree, it’s the latter, an unlikely combination of two unique brains combining from different parts of…READ MORE

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