From ‘Drug Dealers’ to Legitimate Entrepreneurs: The Street2Boardroom Programme as an Alternative Form of Adult Learning—A Conversation with Clayton Planter

People with offending histories, or those at risk of offending, have often reported that higher education is a place where they are not welcome. This chapter is a conversation between Clayton Planter, CEO of Street2Boardroom, and volume editors Debbie Jones and Mark Jones. Street2Boardroom was born in 2016, when founder Clayton Planter recognised that the current system repeatedly rejected certain types of people; preventing them from reaching their full potentials, from finding positive role models that they could genuinely relate to and ultimately re-joining society. Currently, Street2Boardroom supports young people and adults who find themselves involved in illegal activities, or who want to transition their street skills to more formal working environments. The conversation considers the role of Street2Boardroom in supporting marginalized groups through the delivery of innovative training programmes. It also considers how this programme might be brought into the higher education environment, and what the challenges and benefits of that would be.