Professor David Gibson OBE spent twenty years as an Entrepreneurial Accountant advising business owners how to develop their skills and mindset.
The result was the development of an entrepreneurial competency model called the E-factor and a book published by Pearson Education in 2006
He implemented the model at Queens University Belfast as part of the curriculum of the entire student population He followed a sample of thirty thousand students over ten years and found not only had the students developed sustainable entrepreneurial skills but a record number of businesses were started and many successful CEOs were created.
The model was then applied at Liverpool John Moores University and is now used throughout the world with students, educators, entrepreneurs and executives.
Together with Mashauri, David has recognised the power of putting the E-factor inside of an experiential, online course . The result of that thinking is the E-Factor program that is distributed via the Mashauri entrepreneurial education platform.