How Business Owners Remove Friction: Simple Systems to Finish What Matters

📅 Tuesday 21st April 2026
🕡 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 The Site, Cheltenham, GL51 9LT

Many women in business don’t struggle because they lack ambition, ideas, or motivation.

More often, progress stalls because priorities become unclear, decisions stay open, and energy becomes scattered across too many competing demands.

In this interactive session, we’ll explore simple systems that help remove friction from the way we work and make decisions. By reducing unnecessary complexity and focusing energy where it matters most, it becomes much easier to create steady momentum and actually finish the things that matter.

Through a mix of short insights and guided reflection exercises, you’ll leave with practical tools you can apply straight away to your own goals and projects.

This session is designed to be thoughtful, practical, and genuinely useful, no motivational fluff, just simple frameworks that work in real life.

✨ Clarifying what matters now
Identify two goals you want to move forward and what real progress would actually look like.

✨ The Circle of Influence
Learn how to focus your time and energy on what you can control and influence, rather than what sits outside your control.

✨ Removing friction from decisions
Explore simple ways to reduce unnecessary decision points and close open loops that slow progress.

✨ Small actions that create momentum
Discover practical habits, including the five-minute rule, that help move tasks forward and prevent mental clutter.

This session is ideal for women who:

• Run businesses or lead teams
• Have ideas and goals but struggle to finish things consistently
• Feel stretched across too many priorities
• Prefer practical tools over motivational advice

Verena Schoeddert is the founder of, a private lash atelier based in Cheltenham, known for its bespoke, face-mapped lash styling and calm, one-to-one studio experience.

Alongside building her business, Verena works in the renewable energy sector as Global PMO Lead for Accounting Strategy, Communication & Change Management in Offshore Wind.

In her role, she supports complex international programmes and helps organisations translate strategy into structured execution. Her work focuses on simplifying decision-making, aligning teams across functions, and ensuring projects move from concept to completion.

Working across both corporate leadership and entrepreneurship has given Verena a practical perspective on what actually helps ideas move forward. She is particularly interested in how removing unnecessary friction, closing open decisions, and simplifying everyday systems can make progress more consistent, even in busy and demanding environments.

🌐 Website: www.foxanddoe.co.uk

📸 Instagram: @foxanddoe.lashes

Info: Grab a drink, enjoy some nibbles, and meet fellow women in construction, property & business.

Info: Many women in business don’t struggle because they lack ambition, ideas, or motivation.

More often, progress stalls because priorities become unclear, decisions stay open, and energy becomes scattered across too many competing demands.

In this interactive session, we’ll explore simple systems that help remove friction from the way we work and make decisions. By reducing unnecessary complexity and focusing energy where it matters most, it becomes much easier to create steady momentum and actually finish the things that matter.

Through a mix of short insights and guided reflection exercises, you’ll leave with practical tools you can apply straight away to your own goals and projects.

This session is designed to be thoughtful, practical, and genuinely useful, no motivational fluff, just simple frameworks that work in real life.

Info: We’ll round off the evening with time to connect, chat, and share takeaways.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Site, 24 Chosen View Road, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

Get App