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 one of our panel of experts.
Sessions:
1. What if 2+2 could equal 6? Maximising your CRM to transform your sales performance – Ed Beale, Regional Director, Kiss the Fish
2. How marketing can be your engine for growth – Stephen Rumbelow, Marketing Director, The Marketing Centre
3. How to build a leadership team to scale – Tracey Locke, People Director, People Puzzles
4. Your Technology Roadmap for Growth – Pippa Thomas, Regional Director, 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
Antonia Maclean, Peer Group Chair, Vistage UK
With over 18 years of experience as a Director at Mars and 15+ years running a successful consulting firm, Antonia has dedicated her career to fostering business growth and culture change. As a Vistage Chair, she brings together top CEOs, MDs, and business owners, providing them with the resources and support needed for sustainable success. Also serving as a Trustee of the YMCA Trinity Group and Chair of a Building Preservation Trust, Antonia is committed to leadership and community development.
Ed Beale, Regional Director, Kiss the Fish
Ed worked for 21 years in magazine publishing where he ended up running EMAP Active, the highly profitable specialist publications arm of EMAP PLC. For the last 16 years Ed has worked in a wide variety of different businesses and industries, creating growth strategies and helping turnaround failing businesses.
Stephen Rumbelow, 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.
Tracey Locke, People Director, People Puzzles
Tracey is a dynamic HR Director with over 20 years of experience in the public and private sectors across the UK and Europe. Known for her integrity and coaching skills, she excels in modernising HR functions, implementing strategies, and fostering high-performing teams. Tracey has a proven track record of improving business performance and reducing costs through strategic collaboration with senior leadership. Awarded an OBE in 2011 for enhancing Civil Service efficiency, she is passionate about empowering teams and leaders to reach their full potential.
Pippa Thomas, Regional Director, Freeman Clarke
Pippa, an experienced CIO/CTO, leads Freeman Clarke’s East Midlands, East England, and South Yorkshire teams, prioritising customer needs with 20+ years of management experience. Passionate about technology-driven results, her team specialises in digital transformation, harnessing AI, cyber-security, and bespoke software solutions. Serving diverse sectors, they prioritise client satisfaction and independence, ensuring tailored approaches to meet business objectives while driving sustainable growth.
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.
The CFO Centre is the world’s number 1 provider of part-time Chief Financial Officers to SMEs with over 450 CFOs operating out of 70+ offices across 5 continents and managing a combined turnover of £5 billion.’
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.
