Ed Gonsalves

Ed specialises in the design, development and delivery of senior executive programs for high performance teams in entrepreneurial and large firms.

He holds a number of directorships, advises, consults and publishes in the area of strategy, cultural change, family business, pre-loved luxury markets, health technology, rewilding, and entrepreneurial learning. Ed's focus is on the development of executive and corporate playfulness in uncertain, decision-making contexts and ambiguous market settings.

Qualifications

• M.Ed. Foundations of Open and Distance Education, Open University Business School, UK, 1998 – 2000
• M.Sc. Management Science and Operations Research, Warwick University Business School, UK, 1990 – 1991
• BA (Hons) Business Studies, Bournemouth University, UK, 1986 – 1990

Relevant Past Employment

2011 – Present: Director, The Cooplexity Institute, Spain
2014 – 2016: Managing Director, Fabulyzer Sensors, UK
2011 – 2012: Director, My Cinnamon Girl, UK
2007 – 2014: Director, Training Games, Spain
2007 – 2012: Founding Member, Barcelona Entrepreneurship City, Barcelona
2007 – 2011: Strategic Consultant and Lead Facilitator at Carnival Village (London)
2005 – 2008: Facilitator/Moderator: Park Royal Partnership Trust’s ‘SME Mentoring Program'
1997 – 2007: Co-chair, Director of Education, Yaa Asantewaa Arts Centre, London
1999 – 2003: Director, BreakThrough Networks, London (VoIP provider)
1992 – 1994: Market Analyst, Michelin Tyres, London
1987 – 1990: Analyst, Foreign Exchange and Money Markets Division, SG Warburg Investment Bank, London

• Gonsalves, E. & Fakoussa, R. (2023). A Play-Based Approach to Learning in Internationalizing Arab Family Businesses: Change as a Ludic Paradox. In K.L. Tennin (Ed.) Change Management During Unprecedented Times: IGI Publishing
• Gonsalves, E. (2023). Playful Mocktails for HE: in L.Forbes and D.Thomas (Eds) Professors at Play: Real-world techniques for a more playful higher education classroom: Carnegie-Mellon ETC Press, Pittsburgh
• Gonsalves, E. & Zamora, R. (2019). Ludens Familias: Playful Learning for The Entrepreneurial Family. In A. Ayandibu (Ed.) Reshaping Entrepreneurship Education with Strategy and Innovation: IGI Publishing
• Gonsalves, E. & Zamora, R. (2017). Ludic Executives: The Case for Play in Entrepreneurial Learning Design. In P. Jones, G. Maas and L. Pittaway (Eds) Entrepreneurship Education: New Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Education. London: Emerald Press
• C.W.J.A., Gonsalves, E. (2008). Entrepreneurial Resource, Organizational Learning and Strategy-Making: Linking Theory and Empirical Design. In R. T. Harrison, & C. M. Leitch (Eds.), Entrepreneurial Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Applications. London: Routledge.

Please request pre-2008 publications and keynotes.

Conference Papers Given

• Gonsalves, E. (2022) Family Business Games as Dialogic Playspaces. 4th Playful Learning Conference: Exploring fun, play & games in Higher Education, Leicester, July
• Gonsalves, E. & Bauer. (2018) Challenges In An Effectual Approach to Teaching Entrepreneurial Practice. 5th Effectuation Conference: “Bringing Effectuation Home to Darden”, University of Virginia, Darden, June
• Gonsalves, E. (2015) RET-MICA: an entrepreneurial learning workshop tool for MBA & MA programs. ABS Learning, Teaching & Student Experience Conference, York, April
• Gonsalves, E. & Fakoussa, R. (2014) Evaluating RETS-MICA: A Constructivist Tool for Entrepreneurial Learning in Case-based Settings, 3E ECSB Entrepreneurship Education, Turku, Finland, April
• Willetts, J & Gonsalves, E. (2013) Impact of Chinese Investment and Trade on the Incumbent Indian Entrepreneurs in Africa, Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Cardiff, UK, November
• Gonsalves, E. (2013) Cooplexity: Entrepreneurial & Executive Play for Complex Environments, Serious Games Association, Serious Play Conference, Redmond, Washington
• Diamond, D., Gonsalves, E. (2012) Art as A Vehicle for True Community Dialogue, 54th International Congress of Americanists, Vienna

• Supervised over 50 MBA & MA dissertations by research since 2005

Research Interests

• Entrepreneurship, Decision-making, Complexity, Play, Learning:
• Executive Play
• The Development of Emancipatory Pedagogies in Enterprise learning
• Connectivist learning designs as a means to engage learners with wider publics, proximal commons and the delivery of beyond-the-classroom 'products'
• Dramaturgical learning as a catalyst for the co-production of learning and instructor
• The use of VLEs, Social Media and Blended-Learning designs to release all of the above in Enterprise Education
• The role of play in reducing the risk of dysfunctional learning in modern HE institutions and Corporate settings.

• UK Entrepreneurs Educators Fellow
• Chartered Manager and Fellow of UK Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
• Senior Fellow, UK Higher Education Academy
• 3EP Fellow, European Entrepreneurship Educators Program Belbin Team-Profile Evaluator Accredited
• Enterprise ProfitAbility Facilitator Accredited Cooplexity Instructor Accredited
• Exploring Play Certified Facilitator (Sheffield University)

As MA Entrepreneurial Management Pathway Leader and MBA Module Leader European Business School, London:

• Entrepreneurship and Planning New Ventures;
• Family Business;
• Managing the Growing Firm;
• Strategy in Action

As Associate Professor, ESADE Business School, Barcelona:

• International EMBA Cultural Change and Organisational Development

As Associate Professor Human Resources & Entrepreneurship, Toulouse Business School, Barcelona:

Masters Level:

• Change Management
• Entrepreneurship and Family Business
• Strategic Human Resources
• Supply Chain Negotiation
• Talent Management

1994 – 2000, Research Associate and Research Fellow, Strategic Management and Organizational Learning, Centre for Strategy & Policy, Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK