2023 ACEEU Global Triple E Awards

Summary

The Diamond leadership is a holistic leadership model that includes multi-facet strands of operation, which characterise my entrepreneurial leadership over the past 30 years of my career in HE and industry. In 2014, I joined UCLan Engineering, taking different leadership roles, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Principal Lecturer, Deputy Head, and Associate Dean, during which I support people's future, staff, students, research, industry, and the community at the institutional, national and international levels. My leadership model combines visionary and coaching approaches to support young leaders and people.

I am using the visionary approach with long-term goals, so the team members engage with these goals at different levels with different roles, while I use the coaching approach to create a positive supportive environment with devoted time to support staff in achieving the KPIs. Three key entrepreneurial competencies that characterise me; are business vision, creativity, and communication.

I work with the school stakeholders to develop the business vision, five years growth plan, including goals and KPIs that contribute to the university's strategic vision. Many examples of how I'm successfully utilising the Diamond leadership model, include growing school recruitment by 100%, Industrial Advisory Boards, £2m externally funded projects for staff and student exchange worldwide, developing labs & equipment provision, achieving research goals in Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines, developing engineering clubs, summer school and CPD programmes, the ‘EAZE’ Programme ‘Entrepreneurship and Start-up for Engineers’, and building collaborations with industry nationally and internationally, I work with colleagues across the school and UCLan to achieve these goals.

Key People

Prof. Dr. Ahmed Onsy
Associate Dean School of Engineering & Computing for Business Development and Partnerships
University of Central Lancashire

Acknowledgements

I'm honoured to be selected as a finalist in the category 'Male Entrepreneurial Leader of the Year' of the 2023 ACEEU Global Triple E Awards on Entrepreneurship and Engagement Excellence in Higher Education. This recognition is a true reflection of the entrepreneurial and collaborative achievements at the University of Central Lancashire and School of Engineering that truly represents UCLan values. Thanks to the support being received from Prof Graham Baldwin, UCLan Vice-Chancellor, UCLan VC Group and Senior management, Prof Ian Allison, Executive Director of Digital Transformation, Prof Michael Fernando, Dean of Engineering and Computing, Paul Rowe, Director of International Partnerships, and Emma Speed, Creative Innovation Zone and Enterprise Manager. Thank you, UCLan School of Engineering team.

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