Business Upgrade: A Skills Blueprint Event

The Business Upgrade - Think bigger. Lead better. Build smarter.

The Business Upgrade is a practical, high-energy day for ambitious business owners who are ready to step out of the day-to-day and look at what their business needs next.

Because growing a successful business isn't just about getting better at marketing.

It's about becoming a better leader. Understanding your numbers. Making stronger decisions. Building better systems. Using your time and resources more effectively. And creating a business that can support where you want to go next.

Join us for sessions including:

• Upgrade your Self Leadership with Claire Lockey The Skills Blueprint
• Upgrade your Brand Perception with Eleanor Hanock Number 75
• Being a Bit Disruptive with Paul Green - Small Changes That Make Your Business Stand Out
• Jolly Good Networking with John Stacey & Jolly Good Web
• Money, Finance & Wealth Panel with Rebecca Webster, Aaron Hutchinson, Neil Everatt
• Uprade Your Momentum with Katie Raithby Veall - Create your own visual takeaway
  PLUS - get a FREE professional photograph with your ticket worth £50.

But this won't be a day of sitting and listening to speaker after speaker.

The Business Upgrade is designed to be experienced, not just watched.

Expect practical workshops, interactive activities, structured networking, opportunities to develop your skills, expert insights, useful resources, brilliant food, plenty of fun and a few surprises along the way.

Most importantly, we'll give you the space to actually do the work while you're in the room.

You'll leave with new connections, fresh thinking, practical tools and tangible actions you can take back into your business immediately.

Welcome to The Business Upgrade.

Info: A workshop about the perception gap, and why brilliant businesses get overlooked, underestimated and mistaken for everyone else.

Info: What could happen if you questioned the way things have always been done in your business or sector?

Drawing on his experience of creating Ignite! The Disruptive Business Event and his approach to customer service, Paul Green introduces a practical DISRUPT framework to help you challenge assumptions, see things through your customers’ eyes and bring more personality and conversation into your business.

This interactive session combines real examples with an exercise to help you identify one change you can test in your own business. Leave with a fresh perspective and a practical idea to make your business more memorable, more personal and easier to buy from.

Info: Jolly Good Networking: Five Seconds

You've been staring at your own website for years. Your customers give it about five seconds... if you're lucky!

So, instead of business card scrambling and 60 second pitching round the table, let's find out what happens in those five seconds!

Through some fun and games, and opening up some curtains to each other (!), you'll leave with at least two deep, honest, and unrehearsed customer reactions to your business, written down. And you'll almost certainly (eek!) find out that the thing you're most proud of on your website is the thing nobody notices...

45 minutes. Bring your phone, a pen, and a sense of humour.

Info: Money, Wealth & Finance: The Business Panel

Making money is one thing. Keeping it, managing it and using it to build something bigger is another.

This panel brings together experts and entrepreneurs with different perspectives on sales, pricing, profitability, financial decision-making, growth and wealth.

Expect a practical, honest conversation packed with real-life business advice — with plenty of opportunity to put your own questions to the panel and get their perspective on the money challenges, decisions and opportunities you’re navigating in your business.

Info: The final session of the day will be all about turning the motivation and ideas we’ve been building into action.

Katie will be bringing us her Momentum Map - a fast, visual, and energising way to get clear on what matters most in your business over the next 90 days.

It’s a hands‑on, creative, clarity‑boosting session where you’ll map out what will build your focus and momentum over the next 90 days. It’s designed for real entrepreneurs - people juggling clients, family, ideas, and at least 60 open tabs in their brain at any one time!

Katie is the Head of Consultancy at Human Alchemy, as well as the Chief Creative Officer of Visual Takeaway. She blends pragmatic leadership insights with her signature doodle‑based style to help you cut through the noise and create clarity and momentum you can use straight away.

It’s going to be practical, visual and energising. Creating your own Visual Takeaway will be the perfect way to finish the day with momentum.

Event venue & nearby stays

Charlotte House, Union Road, Lincoln, United Kingdom

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