Paul Duffen — who in the two years since he became chairman of Hull City has seen the football club gain and retain Premiership status — gave a typically 'can-do' talk at our 'Biz Week Extra' event at Vermuyden School in Goole yesterday.
"He was an amazing hit with the kids," said Carolyn Burgess (our chief exec). "The key message was aim high and don't give in when people say you'll never do it."
Our picture shows Paul Duffen with Carolyn (right) and Danuta Tomasz, the school's headteacher.
Business Week 2009, which was based on the theme of 'can-do' and sponsored by Language is Everything, officially came to an end last Friday. Yesterday's 'bonus' event took the multilingual, multicultural world of football as a starting point for introducing children to the challenges and opportunities of the global village of the 21st century (see our post below).