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the business school

Welcome to the business school

After achieving incredible success with the Breakthrough Women mini-MBA and our super charge days, Susie, Sue and Debs have gone through the feedback and the outcomes from our delegates and have now come up with a ‘cradle to grave’ approach to business training: -

 

Start Up

Scale Up

Sell Up

Pitch Up

 

We recognise that not everyone is at the same stage of their business journey and so have redesigned our training packages. 

 

For new entrepreneurs, or those that want to change direction and launch new products or services, we recommend the Start-Up Bootcamp. Instead of committing to expenditure to test your thoughts, these two days will allow you to develop your ideas in full, getting honest feedback and refining your pricing strategy, client base and financial viability. After this you’ll be ready to launch with confidence and less risk. 

 

The Mini-MBA for Scale Up is for established businesses that may have reached a plateau and need to be supercharged into higher growth and better profitability. 

 

Sell Up - How to Exit Your Business, will give you a fix on what your current business is worth and the various exit options that are open to you, whether you are thinking in the short-term or long-term. 

 

Finally, the Pitch Up Pitch Deck Day is an entirely practical session for a small group to develop their deck to prospective investors or to clients for new business. The day results in a personal pitch deck. However, as you need to have financial information and target audiences firmly nailed, we recommend this for delegates who have been on one of the above courses. 

 

All courses are held in Hythe, Kent just off junction 11 of the M20 with free parking and teas, coffees, snacks, soft drinks and lunch included (as appropriate) and all dietary requests catered for. If travelling by train, get off at Folkestone West (arrive at 9am) and we will pick you up and drop you back off again.

The training

Each of these courses are presented by Susie Warran-Smith CBE.

1

start up bootcamp

  • This back-to-back highly intensive two-day training session on how to develop a start-up or new product is for:

  • a) Would-be entrepreneurs who are about to launch their new business 

  • b) Established business owners who want to change course or launch a new product or service

2

mini mba

  • This programme helps promising businesses to scale up and become more profitable.

  • We combine academic theory in plain English with personal hands-on, successful entrepreneurial experience

3

sell up - how to exit your business

  • This course gives a good foundation for anyone considering exiting their business whether in the short or long term.

  • You will understand the options involved in the exit process and how much your business is currently worth. 

4

pitch up pitch deck day

  • This day is divided into two parts and is relevant for new entrepreneurs or existing business owners.

  • The first part delivers the best practice concepts for delivering a pitch deck for investors or new clients. The second involves one-to-one practical working sessions that will result in your own bespoke basic pitch deck

Susie Warran-Smith CBE is a former academic and lecturer on the MBA programme at Staffordshire University Business School. She has had a successful corporate career and in 2015 set up her company from scratch, selling it five years later to Ernst & Young in a multi-million pound deal. She is a keen advocate for women in business and has written extensively on entrepreneurship. Susie was awarded a CBE in Queen Elizabeth II's 2022 New Year Honours List for services to small business.

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Interested?

Click HERE to view upcoming dates! You can select and sign up for the course(s) you are interested in.

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