Patrick Grant is a serial entrepreneur, who is probably best known in the UK as a judge on the popular TV show The Great British Sewing Bee. He is also a graduate of the first Oxford Executive MBA Programme and actually put in the bid to buy his first business, Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons, when he was still at Oxford.
Two decades and three ventures later Patrick talks to Kathy Harvey about his love of clothes, his distaste for fast fashion and his newest venture, Community Clothing, which spearheads his crusade to transform the way we buy clothes. A crusade reflected in his newly published book Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier.
The Great British Sewing Bee theme music by kind permission of its composer Ian Livingstone.
The Application is a podcast that tells us about our alumni – their background, what was the driver that caused them to apply for the Oxford Executive MBA (EMBA), what the turning points in their lives are, what their identity is and the tension that often embodies so much of our professional lives.
This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the EMBA programme and to mark this milestone, Kathy Harvey, Associate Dean, has stepped back behind the microphone with a number of our alumni to reflect on their journeys before, during and after their Executive MBA.
The Oxford Executive MBA is a transformational programme, that will challenge you to explore the answers to complex business issues. Learn how to innovate, how to lead responsibly and how to navigate change to transform your own business practice.
