A Fresh Approach
Kudos specialises in empowering business innovation and growth through intensive, targeted workshops, supported by robust frameworks, tools and field research. The Kudos approach is action-based and is designed for clients who demand fast results. As a client, you will benefit from Kudos’ expertise in research and facilitation, the skilled application of proven business development tools and the advantages associated with having an external, independent facilitator. Workshop leaders are highly competent, with extensive hands-on industry experience, in a mix of start-ups and established organisations, across the public and private sectors. Kudos’ solutions are designed for in-house teams, and are customised for three distinct settings - start-ups, SMEs and large organisations.
Kudos also provides an outsourced project management and delivery service enabling pressurised businesses and not-for profit organisations to to meet targets and achieve goals in a flexible and cost-effective manner.
Marie Lynch is the founder and CEO of Kudos. Marie developed the Kudos offering in response to a demand among clients for faster, more cost-effective and more flexible business development solutions.
Marie has 20 years’ experience in business start-ups, business innovation and growth. She works with a wide range of clients including early-stage entrepreneurial start-ups, SMEs, not-for-profit organisations and community initiatives in the areas of strategy, innovation, business planning, project management and implementation, new business development and funding. Her personal strengths include a practical, results-driven and customer-oriented approach; strong analytical, problem-solving and facilitation skills, and an ability to build strong partnerships
As the driving force behind Kerry Technology Park, she was responsible for identifying, attracting and nurturing businesses to create Ireland's first major technology hub outside the major cities. She is a co-founder and director of The Junior Entrepreneur Programme, a not-for-profit initiative that delivers real-life entrepreneurship skills to over 15,000 primary school children each year. She was also a co-founder of the Young Entrepreneur Programme and Endeavour - an accelerator programme for globally facing technology start-ups.