Events & Seminars

This fun and interactive session, hosted by the Big Bang Partnership, could potentially transform your business.

Countless studies show that companies that embrace creativity outperform peers and competitors on key business performance indicators, including revenue growth, market share, and talent acquisition. Yet many British businesses admit that they don’t make sufficient time for creativity or reward innovation.

Dr Jo North will share innovation tools and techniques to help you think more creatively about how to move your business forward and become even more successful.

This 45 minute workshop led session will change how you market your business.

Are you anxious about face-to-face networking? Not sure what to do? Are you and your company missing out on valuable long-term business?

Colin Tweedie’s engaging and much acclaimed session makes sure your networking is successful every time!

A poorly performing website can have a negative effect on your business. They will talk through the basics of website SEO and carry out LIVE demonstrations with attendees’ websites.

In this seminar we look at various scenarios and the solutions available to help you reduce tax and increase wealth.

Hear the story of cultural change at Robertson Baxter, an independent financial adviser business based in Huddersfield. It’s a process that’s still evolving but the team are proud of the progress they've made! The format will comprise a presentation from the Operations Manager, and Q&A session to follow.

Understand how to harness the power of LinkedIn to increase your success with new business opportunities.

Best practice simply isn’t good enough these days. To be leaders in your field you need to truly empathise with your users.

Learn how to become an incredible public speaker with this engaging and interactive presentation from Eaglei

You can’t afford to ignore this large, and growing, group of consumers in Leeds! Come along for information and inspiration to help you cater for the Chinese community in our city and find out how they can be good for your business.

In this seminar Kayla Herbert, managing director of Branswer, will share the top five lean branding tips to help you connect with your customers and generate more sales.

There are so many elements to digital marketing, but how do you go about getting the best return on your investment?

If writing a winning award entry is an art, not a science, is there a way to figure out the formula? This session will draw on Louise Turner’s more than a decade of experience of writing winning award entries to give you the inside track on how to create that extra edge.

Future-ready organisations have many of the characteristics of great athletes: they sense the environment better, process information faster, and respond with speed and agility. Tom Cheesewright will give insight on some of the skills he teaches top multi-national businesses including FTSE250 organisations on how to beat the competition, and remain innovative and agile.

Make practical progress towards up-to-date HR, payroll, line management, recruiting and analytics wherever you are currently at. Bring your context to market-leading experts for immediate suggestions about how to take at least one positive step forward to help bring your employees, your support services and your technology closer together. Digital people strategy is a great aspiration and few have quite got there yet!

Join Myofascial Release specialist and author Amanda Oswald for this seminar to discover what’s really going on in your body, how to solve your back pain, and what you can do to help yourself stay fit and pain free. Come along prepared to take part as she’ll be sharing some simple, practical stretches and self-help techniques you can use practically anywhere!

If you love personal development and have never had a DISC profile before, this is for you. Join Business Coach, Melissa Makan in this seminar to uncover:

• What DISC is and what the letters refer to
• An idea of your own work personality style
• What to consider when you work and communicate with other styles

This talk - Biblical Billionaires - identifies characters of huge wealth in the Bible. Not a religious presentation or a sermon, it looks at how they got their money, what we can learn from them and where there are modern day examples in the business world.

In this session, attendees will understand why their business is struggling to generate the financial rewards, how you can build the right business and the top tips to start to implement for immediate implementation.

Corp & Comm will present a fast paced, entertaining seminar using film clips and real-life anecdotes, to leave you feeling confident and equipped to maximise your chances of invoices being paid.

This seminar by Wokati is set to be highly informative about current technologies available to SME’s today, and how you can practically make use of these technologies to enable their business.

This session will take you through all of the above and demonstrate how careful and sensible financial planning can help you use your business to your best advantage, both now and in the future.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is all over the media. SMEs will automatically think all this technology is for bigger organisations, the giants, and is too expensive for them.
The objective of the seminar is to dispel that myth

Come along and see a 'live' demonstration of the speech recognition solution – let VoicePower show you how you can save time and money, improve your client service and have an overall less stressful working life, all through using your voice!

Come along and let us show you the power of your voice, with a little help from our Dragons and VoicePower!

Richard Coulthard, Director of Oakwood Solicitors, will explore key legal issues facing local SME’s and will in particular focus on costly mistakes made by many business owners who do not appreciate issues surrounding legal compliance and the interaction between business owners business based assets and the owners personal lives.

Businesses know that there are benefits to PR but with so many other priorities it’s inevitable that it continues to end up at the bottom of a very long to-do list. Sound familiar? Rather than tackling the marketing mix head-on, Lindsey Davies, Director from Open Communications, will explain how to embrace PR and get best value from breaking the tactics down into smaller bite-sized chunks.

In this presentation, you will understand the main reasons causing this, how you can build a business that will free you and the top tips to start for immediate implementation. 

Are you an owner-manager, family business owner or entrepreneur?  How often are you faced with the challenge of balancing your business and personal motivations?  Your ambitions for the business and your aspirations for yourself and your family?

Your business could be benefiting from access to funding that enables you to grow! This seminar will bust some of the myths around grant funding; we’ll discuss what you can apply for, what you can’t apply for, how to apply and how long the process takes. Take advantage of this free money and support to get your business to the next level!