David is a mentor to the WORTH Partnership Projects.
The WORTH Partnership Projects website features David and refers to his “firsthand knowledge in leading and managing creative and cultural businesses”. It continues: “Through mentoring, training, and consultancy projects, he applies his expertise and experience to help creative and cultural enterprises in becoming even more successful.”
His profile page further endorses his credentials and reputation by stating: “David’s work is globally recognised, and he has worked with several businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organisations in over 60 nations ranging from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe.” It adds: “David adds value to the companies and organisations of his clients around the world by transferring brilliant ideas, effective techniques, and best practices across industries and sectors, as well as national and cultural borders.”
David was interviewed by the WORTH Partnership Projects and the interview is online here.
The WORTH Partnership Projects collaborate across Europe, bringing together designers, artisans, and SMEs to create groundbreaking concepts that embody sustainability and creativity.
David provides mentoring support and business advice to project teams working across Europe. He uses his own experience of starting up and growing creative enterprises, combined with his professional expertise and international experience as a specialist creative industries business adviser.
He advises the teams of startup enterprises on business strategy, marketing, intellectual property, defining success, pricing, market positioning and other business matters.
David is an experienced mentor and coach who has helped hundreds of creative enterprises around the world, through his business support, training workshops, keynote conference speeches, online toolkits and his two books, written especially for creative entreperneurs.
David opened the WORTH Partnership Projects international event for fashion designers with a creative business masterclass in Valencia. The Masterclass “How to be a Successful Creative Entrepreneur” drew on examples from David’s Business Formula for creative enterprises.
Watch the video of David’s masterclass, plus his answers to questions from the audience, online here.
The WORTH Partnership Projects promote forward-thinking solutions shaping the future of creative industries.
WORTH Partnership Project II is funded by the COSME Programme of the European Union. It creates and supports transnational collaborations between designers, creative people, manufacturing enterprises (SMEs), crafters/makers and technology firms looking to develop design-driven and innovative products.
WORTH Partnership Project II is the second edition of the programme, which ran from 2017 to 2021.
In WORTH I from 2017 to 2021, 152 transnational partnerships were selected, bringing together 349 partners from 34 EU-COSME countries
In WORTH II from 2021 to 2025, 202 projects were selected, involving 465 partners from the same 34 countries.
WORTH is about creating a relevant community throughout Europe whose members share vision and values around design and innovation.