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 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