Dr Susan Aktemel: Entrepreneurial Mindset

Founder of TeachMindset. Growth Mindset Coach & Trainer. Educator.

Susan Aktemel is Executive Director of Homes for Good Social Business Group. An experienced property developer, she has combined these skills with her commitment to improving people’s lives to create Scotland’s first social enterprise letting agency and social landlord in the private rented sector. From 1994-2012 she created and grew Impact Arts, now a leading Scottish charity. Since 2014 she has raised over £12 million in social investment for Homes for Good, named Social Enterprise of the Year 2016 in the Scottish Business and Social Enterprise Scotland Awards.

In 2017 she received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Strathclyde Business School for achievements in Social Enterprise, and in 2019 was inducted into the Strathclyde Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs. In July 2019 Susan was also awarded the inaugural Trinity College Social Innovation Prize at Judge Business School, Cambridge University.

Susan is a mentor for The Young Foundation, a board and investment committee member of SIS Ventures, and a member of the CACHE Knowledge Exchange Hub.