Graham Allcott
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Graham Allcott is a productivity consultant and social entrepreneur.
With a mission to revolutionise time management training, Graham's company Think Productive launched in April 2009, and has earned rave reviews from the likes of British Airways, the Cabinet Office, University College London and Barclays Commercial Bank for its practical, no-nonsense approach.
Away from Think Productive, Graham runs a social enterprise, Fruitful Consulting, which helps charities and community organisations across the areas of volunteering, governance, leadership and youth engagement. Graham's work has taken him from running kids' projects in inner city Birmingham, to setting up HIV/AIDS education projects in rural Uganda, and advising the UK government on youth engagement.
Graham's previous roles include chief executive of Student Volunteering England and head of volunteering at the University of Birmingham. He was founding chairman of trustees of READ International, an award-winning charity recycling English curriculum textbooks by sending them to Tanzanian schools.
Graham was recently named in Striding Out's Future 100 list of the UK's next generation of young, ethical entrepreneurs and was awarded a fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005. Graham is a keen musician and, despite an intolerance of failure elsewhere in his life, an Aston Villa season ticket holder.