FSB is turning 50 this year! To celebrate our golden anniversary, we're helping businesses across the country to grow and expand their networks. Brought to you by Royal Bank of Scotland:
Our hugely successful FSB Business Bootcamp series comes to Edinburgh for the first time and is packed full of hands-on workshops from leading local businesses to help you build value into your small business.
You’ll get the best advice on sales and marketing, making your business profitable and making the most of social media - all targeted for you and your small business.
Agenda
- 9.30-10am – Doors open and introductory networking
Morning Sessions
- 10.00am-10.10am – Welcome – Pauline Weddell of Learn To Grow and Natalie Hughes of RBS
- 10.10am-10.30am – Developing skills for brighter futures, with Mark Blair and Bruce Aitchison of effectivenow
- 10.30am-10.50am – “It’s not what you know…”, with Gail Partridge of PGZ Consulting
- 10.50am-11.20am – Networking Session 1
- 11.20am-11.50am – Boost Your Business With ViDEO!, with Julie Neilson
- 11.50am-12.20pm – What Does It Feel Like to Sell Your Business? with Andrew Morrison of Business Sale Basecamp
- 12.20pm-1pm – Networking Session 2 over Lunch
Afternoon Sessions
- 1pm-1.30pm – Panel Session chaired by Pauline Weddell of Learn To Grow
- 1.30pm-1.50pm – Managing Payments, with Alistair Wood of RBS
- 1.50pm-2.20pm – Networking Session 3
- 2.20pm-2.50pm – Taking Your Business to a New Level, with Nick Sellers, Executive Coach
- 2.50pm-3pm – Close and Round-Up of the Day by Pauline Weddell
Your ticket will include free parking and lunch, tea and coffee throughout the day along with ample networking slots and lots of opportunities to browse our locally focused exhibition area.
Speaker Line-Up
Natalie Hughes - Director of Business Development Royal Bank of Scotland
Natalie spearheads initiatives to drive growth and enhance the bank’s market presence. With over 16 years’ experience in the financial services industry, she has a track record in building strategic partnerships, cultivating client relationships, and identifying new business opportunities.
Natalie leads a team of Business Development Managers who are highly experienced in assessing underlying business cases and strategies of customers, working closely with our specialist sector relationship managers who provide insights and specifics for a range of sectors including leisure, trading, real estate, healthcare, professional services, and manufacturing. This combined expertise means they can identify and structure the most suitable financial solutions for your customers, helping both their businesses and your business grow.
Alistair Wood - Regional Director for the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland for Tyl by NatWest
Alistair runs a team of 12 highly experienced Business Development Managers across the Region with a focus on making customers’ payment facilities simpler to use and more cost effective. Alistair’s team also work closely with the Bank in their local markets to ensure a broad range of solutions are available when required. Tyl follows the NatWest’s aspirations to help people, families and businesses thrive by always being there.
Gail Partridge - Business Performance Coach and Leadership Expert, PGZ Consulting Ltd
Gail helps busy leaders who are struggling with the many complex relationships in today’ s business environment. She does this by tapping into the emotional side of leadership that helps to realise the potential of their UNIQUE authenticity to drive optimum performance. She does this through using straightforward, straight-talking leadership and coaching programmes and stays right by your side until you don’t need her anymore.
Andrew Morrison - Managing Director, Business Sale Basecamp
Business Sale Basecamp is a new consultancy which specialises in helping company owners prepare their businesses and themselves practically, mentally and emotionally for a business sale. Andrew set up AM Bid in 2014 with a plan to sell within 8-10 years. He successfully scaled the business to be Scotland’s largest bid, tender and proposal specialists – a business with clients across the UK, profitable every year, with turnover of £1.2m, all achieved with no investment, borrowing or bad debt. In 2022, Andrew was named by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) as the industry’s Global Thought Leader of the Year. In 2018, he received the Institute of Directors Scotland Emerging Director of the Year of Award.
Nick Sellers - Executive Coach and Business Mentor
Nick works with clients to cut through chaos and achieve clarity, build confidence, and reach big goals. With a calm demeanour, insightful questions, and an eye for growth opportunities. He has more than forty years of business and strategy experience, including nearly twenty spent guiding, coaching, and mentoring colleagues and clients around the world through complex projects and change management.
Julie Neilson - ViDEO Coach and Producer, Julie Neilson Media
Known for her compassionate guidance and valuable insights, Julie gives her clients the confidence they need to feel comfortable in front of the camera and teaches them the skills required to create ViDEOs which will truly enhance their business. With an extensive background with BBC Television and teaching audio visual subjects, Julie knows how powerful ViDEO can be and how it can be used to boost any business!
effectivenow
effectivenow are a team of high performing business leaders, educators, and ex professional sportsmen who have come together with a shared desire to improve the future of young people within schools by preparing them for a successful transition into the world of work. By pulling together our collective enthusiasm, knowledge and expertise, we have created a meaningful, innovative learning programme to develop the 'meta skills' of students in the senior phase of their education. This programme, which includes a series of planned business engagement inputs, will ensure the transition from education into employment is made with confidence for the young people, their family and the local businesses.
Interested in our Bootcamp series? See our full programme of Bootcamp events here.
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Event Contact
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