Driving Growth in Uncertain Times Join us for an exclusive workshop, designed for business leaders seeking actionable insights and practical advice to achieve higher growth in these uncertain times.
Featuring four focused sessions on the 4 Key Drivers of Growth , each delivered by an expert from Liberti partners – the Global Number 1 provider of high-calibre part-time professionals.
Sessions: What if 2+2 could equal 6? Maximising your CRM to transform your sales performance – Andy Beech, Regional Director, Kiss the Fish How marketing can be your engine for growth – Stephen Rumbelow, Marketing Director, The Marketing Centre How to create a compelling employer brand and culture to drive growth in today’s multi-generational workplace – Kathryn Marshall, People Director, People Puzzles Your Technology Roadmap for Growth – Tim Higginbotham, Principal, Freeman Clarke The event will conclude with an interactive Q&A where you can engage with our experts on any aspect of business growth. In this thought-provoking workshop, business owners and senior management will come away with:
New tools to build a successful growth strategy for your business Insight into how technology is changing the sales and marketing functions The inspiration to re-align your management teams around growth Who should attend? This invitation-only event is exclusively for CEOs, MDs, owners and key decision-makers of ambitious mid-market businesses.
Speakers Regional Director, The Marketing Centre
Colin joined the Marketing Centre after starting, scaling, and exiting his own trading business. Prior to this, he held senior Marketing and Sales roles in multiple sectors, including Engineering, Industrial Supplies, Retail, Healthcare, Technology, and FMCG, at companies such as Argos, Beiersdorf, SCA, and Smiths Industries.
Regional Director – Kiss the Fish
Andy is an extremely experienced and inspirational trainer, facilitator and coach. He focuses his time on enabling individuals, teams and whole organisations to go beyond what they think is possible and achieve even greater results. His clients include many global blue-chip companies as well as smaller businesses in diverse industry sectors including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, oil and gas, manufacturing and facilities management. He has designed and delivered projects in Europe, USA, Canada, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia and China.
Regional Director, The Marketing Centre
Stephen joined The Marketing Centre in 2024 and is a seasoned Global Sales & Marketing Leader with a 20-year digital marketing track record. He excels in diverse sectors – from startups to established corporates, both client and agency sides – having held senior roles at companies such as Optimise Media, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Hiscox, and Virgin.
Regional Director, People Puzzles
Kathryn has over 25 years of experience and a wealth of expertise from her time on Executive Boards at major companies like Aviva Serco Atomic Weapons AWE and Balfour Beatty plc. Her approach is warm, pragmatic, and rooted in common sense, making her a go-to resource for businesses looking to scale, navigating change and transformation. Her track record speaks for itself: she’s helped businesses turn around losses, overhaul structures for customer-centricity, implement cloud-based solutions, and foster customer-centric cultures. Kathryn’s style is straightforward and results-oriented, driven by a passion for aligning purpose, culture, strategy, and people.
Principal/CIO, Freeman Clarke
Tim has successfully held senior IT leadership and director roles in many organisations ranging from FTSE100 through to start-ups, covering the logistics, postal, publishing, insurance and retail sectors. Tim has significant experience in setting up and managing projects for success, managing business requirements and creating solutions across processes, people and IT. Notably this has centred around ERP solutions, as a key enabler to many businesses. Coupled with abilities to define strategic roadmaps and leading successful teams, Tim joined Freeman Clarke to draw on this experience to help clients drive value from technology.
This event is brought to you by:
Freeman Clarke is the UK’s largest and most experienced team of fractional technology leaders. We are more than interims, consultants or freelancers. We are impartial IT Leaders, CIOs and CTOs who can become a part-time, long-term member of your senior team at a fraction of the cost of a full-timer. We create, support and deliver tech strategies that accelerate your business growth. One of our Board-level IT experts can join your senior team to oversee digital innovation, systems and infrastructure. This produces results.
Kiss the Fish team provides proven Sales Directors On Demand and Sales Training. They know exactly how to accelerate your company’s growth through enhancing sales productivity and performance. They help maximize the people, the process and the performance. You get the right person, the appropriate metrics and management to ensure your company has the best sales direction.
The Marketing Centre has a mission; to provide small and mid-size businesses access to Marketing Directors with a proven track record of delivering significant impact. Giving you in-house access to the knowledge, passion and experience required to build and develop your company at a seniority level you could never afford full-time. Our stringent selection process means we only select the best Marketing Directors – to ensure that you get the best.
People Puzzles have decades of expertise in managing people. Our diverse team have seen (nearly) everything before. We regularly peer-check each other’s work to ensure quality, with regular training and professional development to stay up to date and on the ball.
People Puzzles are proud to be an HR consultancy that does things differently. External and objective, our specialists contribute expertise and a ‘big picture’ perspective to help your business grow.
Vistage is the world’s largest executive coaching organisation for small and medium-sized businesses. For more than 60 years they’ve been helping CEOs, business owners and key executives solve their toughest challenges through a comprehensive approach to success. At the heart of their proven formula is confidential peer advisory groups and executive coaching sessions.
