Dragon College of Business is a vocational-sector training college located in Bella Vista in Sydney's north-western suburbs. Dragon College is part of Pooled Knowledge Pty Ltd, a company which has successfully delivered business learning around the world for the last decade. It is creating training programs that meet the needs of busy learners seeking diploma-level qualifications in the fields of business and management.
Building on his background and experience in the creation and delivery of effective business and management learning programs in universities and industry, as well as his reputation as an author and developer of best practise business learning materials, Dr David Poole has created Dragon College as an applied, business-focused college of learning. Innovative and flexible, Dragon College aims to successfully build a home within Australia's vibrant vocational education sector.
The vision for Dragon College was borne out of Dr David Poole’s passion for creating and delivering engaging, innovative, and enjoyable business education with diploma of business and diploma of management in Australia.
Having successfully delivered undergraduate and postgraduate business and management units in Australia, the United States, China and Vietnam, and as co-author of one of the Asia-Pacific’s most popular introductory management texts, David was teaching post-graduate Entrepreneurship at Macquarie University in 2010 when the “entrepreneurial bug” struck him once more. This was not the first time.
Between 2007 and 2009 he owned and operated a Dymocks bookstore at North Sydney, making it the most successful (year on year) store in Australia during the Christmas 2008 trading period. He won the rights to sell and merchandise books and other products at the Donald Trump tour of Australia in 2008. He also turned around the fortunes of a major industry association between 2004 and 2006, the Urban Development Institute of Australia.
In short, David wished to do something more than take his unique experiences and personality to a broader audience, one that would be particularly open to his applied and practical approach to learning, a style that led Solenne Antien to write:
This interactive and unique class was a real pleasure. Your unique personality, humour, honesty and charisma were captivating. Your vision of entrepreneurship was enriching and motivating.
and classmate Guillaume Grelié to write:
After a semester with Dr Dave, I must admit that I wasn’t expecting anything that has happened during this semester! It was a very lively experience, a real discussion about entrepreneurial ideas and real entrepreneurs, physically present or on TV, real stories of hurts and joys on the entrepreneurial route via Dr Dave’s experience. Add to that the group project, which allowed me to meet people from all around the world with different backgrounds, age and culture, a different view on the world and different expectations, and you get a bit closer to the experience I had this semester. I was expecting something more based on theories, tangible knowledge and homework, but I realised that it’s not the way to learn what entrepreneurship is really about.
Then, while completing a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (to add to his four degrees in business and management), David Poole realised that his vision was to start a business school from the ground up, beginning with the most applied and practical training ground for current and future managers, vocational education and training (VET).
