George Konstantakopoulos
Director, Consultant, and Small Business Owner in Manchester, United Kingdom
The Austrian/American management consultant and author, Peter Drucker, once wrote that "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
George holds a Computer Networks degree and an MEnt degree - a master's level research in Entrepreneurship from Manchester Business School. He has more than 15 years experience with a diverse background ranging in the telecoms, sales, marketing and business development fields. He has worked in a variety of stage and size of enterprises, from start-ups to global organisations with a track record of successfully developing and achieving strategic objectives such as winning a New York City Council 'Call for Innovations'.
During his MEnt degree he researched CSR and Social Entrepreneurship as an innovation driver through his PGR degree in MBS/MEC, and this is what drives his passion behind SocialGrowth and Manchester Social Entrepreneurs.
The last 24 months George has achieved:
- Manchester Business School (MEC) scholarship award for a postgraduate research degree in Entrepreneurship (Q4 '13)
- PG research project which focused in strategic Corporate Social Responsibility as a business innovation opportunity, consumer trends and behaviour towards CSR, and Social Entrepreneurship business models. (Q4 '14)
- During his PGR degree George won a Social Enterprise 'Do it' award from Unltd (Q2 '14)
- Founded Manchester Social Entrepreneurs counting to date +600 members (Q4 '14)
- Manchester Social Entrepreneurs won a Spark award from Unltd (Q2 '15)
- Successfully applied and won a New York City Council 'Call for Innovations' where he described a Social Enterprise Internet Service Provider. (Q3 '15)
- Launched SocialGrowth Ltd a consultation business with focus in Corporate Social Innovation (Q4 '15)
- 1st prize in the Business Startup Competition organised from Manchester Enterprise Centre, The University of Manchester. (Q2 '15)
George is founder of SocialGrowth, a CSR business Innovation agency. SocialGrowth help businesses grow through innovation that leads to social and environmental impact. We use business analysis and CSR as an innovation driver to identify the best strategies for your business. We also run social innovation and entrepreneurship events through Manchester Social Entrepreneurs. Our vision is to merge the social and enterprise sector and in doing so make social entrepreneurship the norm.
Relating back to Mr. Drucker's words,his objective is to use the knowledge and experience acquired to realize his dream of becoming a suc