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🚀 The 2024 Northern Gamechangers list is live! 🚀 We’re back for year three, and this year’s top 50 is packed with innovative and inspiring people who push boundaries and showing off the incredible talent the North has to offer. A huge thank you to our amazing sponsors and partners who help make this all possible: Clockwise Manchester, Embryo, Appleyard Lees, Fine Lines, and PHA North 🔗 Check out the full Top 50 list here: https://lnkd.in/eYEVGjqc 📸 This week Elevate's birthday and I am very proud of Ilona Alcock and Katie Robson for the community they have built over the past 4 years!

🥳 HAPPY 4th BIRTHDAY, ELEVATE 🥳 We're all about celebrating this week... It feels like both moments ago and a lifetime ago that Katie and I tentatively pressed "post" on LinkedIn and launched Elevate into the world. It's been such a wild, wonderful rollercoaster and I'm so unbelievably grateful to everyone who has supported us along the way. A few of the many, many highlights from the last year: 👥 Launching membership and welcoming incredible businesses into the network 💫 Announcing our 2024 Northern Gamechangers (now in it's third year) celebrating amazing people and organisations across the region 🌎 Running the second Northern Sustainability Summit at the iconic Manchester Central - with more content, more exhibitors and a LOAD more attendees 🚀 Hosting the second GC Business Growth Hub Festival of Enterprise to support new businesses and freelancers 🏆 Winning Leading Live Event at This Is MCR awards for the Metro Mayor's DJ Battle with the Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity (and supporting the rematch event in Liverpool!) We have big plans for year five and can't wait to see what the next 12 months bring 🎂 Katie Robson Jessica Pomfret Elevate

💫 Our 2024 Northern Gamechangers list is live!! I am buzzing to finally be able to share our list of 50 incredible individuals and organisations doing amazing things across the North. We mixed things up this year and curated the list from all the recommendations from our members, partners and wider network. We knew we had previously missed people too humble to nominate themselves and we're overjoyed to include them now. So many people helped make this happen but massive thanks in particular to: 💫 Clockwise Manchester - hosting our VIP celebration event (if you're a Northern Gamechanger from any year, you should have an invite... shout me if not!) 💫 Embryo - designing our stunning brochure and handling a million emails to get it looking so good (these are being sent out as quickly as we can!) 💫 Appleyard Lees - returning sponsor for the third year 💫 Fine Lines - new sponsors for 2024 💫 PHA North - our PR partner 💫 Caroline Dowsett - our incredible artist We cannot wait to celebrate with everyone... please join us in congratulating everyone who made the list! 🔗 Link in comments to download Katie Robson Jessica Pomfret Charlie Meyler Hannah Matthewman James Welch James Panepinto Heather Gray Athena Hopking Caroline Dowsett Kat McGettigan Hannah Craig

Back to school! 📚 We have three brilliant, interactive workshops coming up, all kindly hosted by our friends Clockwise Offices. 🌟LinkedIn masterclass, 26th September. A half day workshop facilitated by Coralie Watson and Sarah Jane Wright. You'll leave with a better understanding of the platform, your content pillars and how to create engaging, impactful content. 🌟 Strategic Networking, 23rd October. Katie Robson and Ilona Alcock will share their tips on establishing and maintaining a strong professional network, and help you to create a bespoke strategy. We'll also make curated introductions as appropriate. 🌟 Public Speaking, 20th November. Our ever-popular full day course is back. Ilona Alcock will help you to overcome nerves, engage an audience, structure content, deliver key messages and own the stage. Elevate members are eligible for a number of free places on our courses (contact us to check your allowance and book), plus discounted rates on additional places. 🔗Link in comments to book James Panepinto Athena Hopking

🌟SPONSOR SHOUT OUT🌟 We are so grateful to our brilliant 2024 Northern Gamechangers sponsors. Their support means we can make the celebration free for everyone listed to attend, and that we can have a shiny brochure for the first time! Join us in saying a huge thank you to: 🌟Appleyard Lees IP LLP 🌟Clockwise Offices 🌟Embryo 🌟Fine Lines 🌟The PHA Group And an extra thank you to Caroline Dowsett for the gorgeous art work. Watch this space for the 2024 Northern Gamechangers reveal later this week...

Hands up if you want to be a mentor 🙋🏻♀️ Since my post on Tuesday offering a few free mentoring slots, my inbox has gone absolutely WILD! I've been completely blown away by the response, especially as a lot of the enquiries came from people I hugely admire 🥹 Sadly there's no way I can manage to mentor everyone who got in touch. I have now selected four and I *think* have replied to everyone else (please forgive me if not!). I promised I'd do a shout out for more mentors and do some match making... So... is that you? Do you have a couple of spare hours a month to support an incredible person? If so and you're happy for people to get in touch directly, drop a comment with areas you can help with. If you'd rather I sorted a couple of curated introductions, send me a DM. Lots of you have asked if I'm going to start offering a paid for coaching service and the honest answer is... I don't know! Definitely one to think about over the next few months. For now, if you do have money to invest in life coaching let me introduce the GOAT... Bianca Boyce. It's no exaggeration to say she's transformed my life and those of everyone I've referred. Seriously, she's awesome. 📸 Finishing my LinkedIn replies on my train home last night - at least it made my commute productive!

It's time to practice what I preach... I tell everyone to shout about what they're good at, to clearly explain services and to ask for the work they want. And yet I've put off creating a dedicated webpage for aaaaaaages as writing about myself like this makes me super uncomfortable! I regularly get asked to speak at events (on a wonderfully wide range of topics) and it's genuinely one of my favourite parts of my job. I can offer... 🎤 Event hosting 🎤 Chairing panels / roundtables 🎤 Facilitating workshops 🎤 Keynotes 🎤 Podcast guest Let me know if you think I can support you or your business! 🔗 Link in comments to the shiny new webpage (which still makes me cringe a little!)

Would you like me to mentor you? Over the past few years, I've unofficially mentored lots of people and it's given me such a huge amount of joy to see them thrive. Some of the areas I have helped with: ✨ Public speaking ✨ Start ups ✨ Confidence ✨ Business development ✨ Network building ✨ Finding your why As it feels like we're fully "back to school" now, I'm offering three spots to people who think I can help. Drop me a message if that sounds like you (let me know what you'd like to focus on), or feel free to share with someone you think would benefit.

Happy (almost) 30th birthday to our wonderful Jess! It's hard to imagine Elevate without Jess. Since joining us just over two years ago, she has transformed how we operate. Even more impressively, Jess has done this whilst also studying a masters level leadership course. I am consistently blown away by how she juggles work, essays and a million other commitments. Best of all, she is a joy to be around. I never get tired of our clients and partners telling me how amazing she is. Have a wonderful holiday celebrating, Jessica 🥳 📸 Early celebrations at the fabulous Higher Ground last week. If you haven't been yet, go NOW.