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Super Early Bird tickets for the Business Leader Summit are on sale now 🎟 On 26 March 2025, we’re bringing you the biggest event dedicated to mid-sized businesses that the UK has ever seen. We’ve curated an expert panel of speakers from some of the biggest businesses in the UK to share the stories of leadership, development and expansion that will help inspire breakthrough in your own organisations. And that’s not all. This is a great networking opportunity for those who understand that community is one of the building blocks of success and the key to growth. The days where mid-sized business owners had to go it alone are over. At the Business Leader Summit you’ll be in good company - joining over 300 of your peers for a day of insights, inspiration and innovation. Are you ready to fast forward your growth? Super Early bird tickets are available until 2 December. Find out more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eriFuTmy Thank you to our incredible speakers, we can't wait to have you with us! Gillian Ashcroft Camilla Barnard Euan Blair Lewis Blitz Peter Briffett 💧💉Rich Chambers 🧬 🩸Tessa Clarke Gurinder Dhillon Daniel Dunn Natasha Frangos Sam Heaton Ben Jeffries Joanna Jensen Joanna Knight OBE Jamie Mitchell Bernhard Niesner Richard North Dominic Ponniah Jennifer Quigley-Jones Melissa Snover Raina Summerson Tijana Tamburic Lucy Yeomans

The latest edition of Business Matters is out. In this issue:     💡 Dr Mark Slack on how he built CMR Surgical into a multi-billion-pound business  💡 How to use behavioural science to boost your growth  💡 The impact of AI on gender disparities  💡 monday.com CEO on why failure is part of success 

CMR Surgical is one of the most exciting businesses in the UK, but you probably haven't heard its story. Until now. Dr Mark Slack, the co-founder and chief medical officer, joins us on the latest episode of the Business Leader Podcast taking us through the journey of building the keyhole surgery performing robots that grew CMR Surgical into one of Britain’s biggest businesses valued at more than £2.3bn. Growing a £billion business is a feat that few British business leaders achieve. But that doesn’t mean it’s been smooth sailing. Slack’s journey is a story that involves a failed athletics career, military service and a meeting of minds in Cambridge akin to The Beatles getting together... Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/eNeS44xX

Introducing our Business Leader Summit Speakers ⚡ Gurinder Dhillon, Otto Car Joanna Jensen, Childs Farm Ltd Richard North, Wow! Stuff Raina Summerson, Agincare Thank you to our speakers for joining us at the Summit - we're looking forward to seeing you all. If you're a mid-sized business owner who's ready to scale-up, join us at the Business Leader Summit where we'll be bringing together 300+ of your peers and ambitious industry leaders to take your company to the next stage of growth! Are you ready to scale-up? Super Earlybird tickets are available until 2 December. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eriFuTmy

Failing often and getting feedback is one of the key factors of success. This week we're joined by monday.com co-founder and co-CEO Eran Zinman for the latest episode of My CEO Secret. Monday.com is a cloud-based platform that lets companies build their own work and project management tools. When they went public in the US in 2021 they were valued at $6.8bn, a number which has since risen to $14bn. Zinman credits Monday.com's success to their appreciation and acceptance of failure, a core value that is demonstrated and upheld by the leadership team. 📹 Dougal Shaw

How do you become a disruptor in your industry, and prove that with innovation you can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with giants? We spent the afternoon with BrewDog founder James Watt to learn how he and co-founder martin dickie built one of the biggest beer brands in Britain. A proud risk taker, James talked us through the unconventional path he took towards becoming an entrepreneur, securing funding for his business, and his dynamic approach to marketing and publicity. Our biggest takeaways from James’ story were: 💥 Don’t be afraid to think big and take big risks 🕒 Blocking out time to find inspiration is essential for the leaders who want to stay a step ahead 👥 There’s an art to building the right team for your company – it can make or break company culture and getting it wrong can cost you more in the long-run Our Under the Bonnet sessions give members an inside look at the companies who’ve aced their scale-up journey and continue to take their businesses to new heights. We’re here to inspire business breakthrough for the often-forgotten mid-sized business owners, and insider events like these play a key role in achieving our mission. Thank you, James for spending the afternoon and sharing your expertise with us. And thank you to all our members who attended, we hope you found the session insightful and left feeling as inspired as we did! Andrew Moses Charles Purdy Daniel Dunn Divyesh Kamdar Henry Braithwaite Izmail Fayyaz Jemima Boroughs Joseph Valente Julie Chen Justin Green Kunal Thakker Liam Clancy Mark Neilson Richard North Rob Lowe Rosie Speight Scott Woodhead Simon Britten Simon Ings Tim Bloch Tim Harms Toby Burton

The latest edition of Business Matters is out.     In this edition:     💡 Business lessons distilled from bourbon  💡 Recovery vs hard work: What can elite sport teach us?     💡 The role of technology in reviving the UK economy  💡 Cheeky Panda CEO: ‘Wear your brand’ to stand out 

Introducing our Business Leader Summit speaker Euan Blair ⚡ Euan is the CEO and founder of Multiverse and will be hosting a breakout session where he’ll be discussing the key skills business leaders need when building their companies. Join us on 26 March 2025 for the Business Leader Summit, the conference for mid-sized business owners looking to scale-up. https://lnkd.in/e6tY6sci

This week we’re joined by Uncle Nearest, Inc. founder and CEO Fawn Weaver 🎧 Since 2017, Weaver has been building whisky brand Uncle Nearest, inspired by the first known African American master distiller, Nathan “Nearest” Green. He was a former slave who worked very closely with Jack Daniel. It’s a story that fascinated Weaver when she first learned about it in 2016, so much so that she relocated from Los Angeles to Tennessee with her husband to learn more about the Green family – and ultimately launch a new spirits brand. That brand hit annual revenues of $100m in 2022. She is something of a trailblazer herself, as a woman of colour leading a major spirits company. In this episode, Weaver discusses her business journey - from leaving home at age 15 in Los Angeles to the strategies that helped her create a successful challenger brand, in an industry notoriously difficult to break into. Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/eNeS44xX

Why are US CEOs nearly twice as likely to grow their businesses than UK CEOs? We believe that conversation and community is key. Todays’ Growth Workshop was another brilliant session, reminding us exactly why we do what we do. Thank you to everyone who attended and to our host Richard Harpin. John Darling Matthew Duhig Nick Gianfreda Anthony Koumi Christopher Mills Craig Peterson Steve Pratt Adam Prosser Steve White-Cooper Andy Boyd Leon Cook Richard’s 8 Secrets to building a £billion business are the perfect starting point for conversation for CEO’s and founders looking to take their businesses to the next level. It’s not always easy to see where you might be going wrong with your business, and having a blueprint written by an entrepreneur who’s been there and successfully scaled up can be the missing link between your business and exponential growth. In these workshops we discuss: 💷 How to get the right investment for your business 👥 Hire your replacement, so you can work ON the business instead of IN it 🚀 The importance of mentorship for ambitious, growth-minded leaders Are you ready to scale up? Join us at our next Growth Workshop: https://lnkd.in/ee87wbgA