£36 - £48
Are you ready to take the next step in your business?
For those business owners looking to move to the next stage of their business development, this Growth Academy is perfect for your progression management.
This event offers valuable insights and knowledge from experienced business owners who will be on hand to challenge you, share their own behaviours and experience, and identify how strategies could be developed to boost the success of your business.
Suitable for entrepreneurs whose companies have grown beyond the 'start up' stage, our influential speakers will interact with you directly and walk you through the ways and means you could improve your business and network; effectively and successfully taking it to the next level.
Planning for tomorrow and beyond - You'll discover the fundamental strategies of business to take your company to the next level.
Finding the investors and managing the numbers - Finding new investors is just as important for an established company in order to grow.
Marketing: an evolving brand - Identifying your target markets and ensuring your brand image evolves as the company grows and also the importance of staying on trend digitally.
Customer Relationships: Customer attraction and retention - Understanding the importance of customer service in finding new customers and keeping the old ones.
You'll learn of common pitfalls - and how to avoid them
Q&A - an invaluable opportunity to pick the brains of an experienced business owners
Meet Your Speakers:
Laura Bartlett, Chief Editor of House of Coco
@laurabartlett0 @House_of_Coco
Laura Bartlett has been a girlboss since the age of 23 when she launched her first company. She started this with zero investment and has since gone on to achieve worldwide recognition. Her company is a magazine which, over the years has evolved.
Initially the magazine was all about fashion, championing the underdog of the fashion industry and today its all about travel. Once a local magazine, Laura sought investment from Dragons Den to help her achieve the goal of taking the company to an international scale.
However, she was ridiculed and shot down in front of millions of viewers and had her dreams crushed. As somebody that does not take no for an answer, Laura went on to secure advertisers and she soon launched the magazine on sale in 16 countries, where it sold out worldwide.
After a rocky road and lots of failures and lessons, Laura now has a team of over 30 people that work with her to produce House of Coco magazine which is sold in the most exclusive postcodes in London. It targets a millennial adventurous traveller and has been a platform that has allowed her and her team to travel the world. She is a well traveled socialite with a keen interest in helping others see their true potential.
Kate Hardcastle, Founder of Insight with Passion
@katehardcastle @insightwpassion
Kate Hardcastle is one of the UK's leading 'go-to' business experts for national TV & Media. As seen and heard weekly on BBC, ITV, Sky, Channel 4 & as a guest writer for the Guardian & Virgin, Kate has also led the turn around of British branded businesses, as the Founder of Insight with Passion business transformation. She has presented programmes for BBC on retail, and led the Channel 4 charge for Battlefront on Youth Unemployment.
Kate was made Downing Street - Point of Light winner on International Women's Day with her dedication to any vital campaigns and charities supporting women - an award that she adds to over 26 National & International awards. She is the current Yorkshire Business Woman of the Year.
She leads and add insight to projects in the UK and Internationally, and has been the Keynote Speaker as over 200 events including The Business Show, World Congress and Arabian Business Conference alongside Bill Clinton, Sting and many more.
Kate's business - Insight with Passion, donates an impressive 20% back to good causes - which has been flagged as a case study by Downing Street. Kate is also a proud ambassador for Women In Sport and many charities including Trustee of the Diana Awards and is founder of Positive Image Month and The Charity Dreamgirls.
Danni Hewson, Presenter for BBC Look North
Danni Hewson is BBC Look North's award winning Business and Money Correspondent. Danni has worked for the BBC for 15 years and during that time she has broadcast from fishing boats out in the North Sea, deep down in our last remaining coal mines and from a whole host of the region's manufacturing bases. She's interviewed Prime Ministers, CEOs of multi-national corporations and Hollywood movie stars.
Danni juggles her demanding career with her responsibilities as a mum of two young girls.
Allison Whitmarsh, Founder of Proper Maid
A former school dinner lady has discovered a sure-fire recipe for success. In just two years Allison's home-made cake business has gone from a table top enterprise to a company employing eight staff and baking 1,000s of cakes for sale around the region.
ProperMaid now supplies upmarket cafes, bistros, garden centres and art galleries as far afield as Manchester and Harrogate with speciality cakes.
During a hospitality management course at Huddersfield University students had to create a hypothetical business. So Allison invented ProperMaid, a cake-baking enterprise. She said: "I did some research and as I went on I realised that I could have a genuine business here. People wanted a good quality traditional home-made cake with locally sourced ingredients. Nobody was producing one."
Her company has a rising reputation for creating traditional home-made cakes with a modern twist. She and her staff now bake 300 cakes a week.
For Huddersfield residents with a sweet tooth, Allison and her team have created the unique dandelion and burdock cake. This won the best bakery product in the deliciouslyorkshire awards.
In partnership with:
Grant Thornton; Insight with passion.
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