Equip your team with the innovation mindset and skills to turn their ideas into reality.
Whether you’re building new corporate ventures, fostering internal innovations, or partnering with startups in the wild, we will help you develop the culture and frameworks needed to support continuous innovation.
How we work with corporates
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Interactive workshops
Through one-off workshops or a series, we teach intrepreneurs the practical skills of entrepreneurship: how to generate new ideas, test them with actual customers, size the market, create financial models, refine the business model, design and build first products, and fundraise.
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Offsites
We’ll design an incredible day for your team’s needs, exploring a range of areas including: how to adopt a product mindset for internal innovation, how to support procurement teams to work with startups, how to generate innovative ideas internally through short idea challenges, as well as team dynamics and leadership skills.
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Inspirational talks
We bring in founders and corporate innovators from different sectors to share their stories, giving employees the opportunity to ask their burning questions, discover the shortcuts to hard-won lessons, and spark new ideas.
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Want something bespoke?
We are regularly asked by our clients to design bespoke programmes, so if you’d like to explore new ways to support your founders, let’s talk!
An inspirational talk run by our founder Hattie Willis, at Lloyds Banking Group, on running Lean Experiments to test new ideas faster!
Our most popular topics
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Including:
3 core principles of leadership: growth mindset, empathetic leadership and psychological safety)
How to give and receive feedback so everyone can hear and apply it
How to work in and lead teams with different personalities
How to become a thought leader
How to present your ideas powerfully
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How to turn colleague complaints into new innovations
How to create moments of unexpected joy in internal processes
How to embed an innovation mindset across your team and reward generating and testing new ideas as part of business as usual
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Including:
How to identify real and big problems to solve
How to develop your first best guess business model - without writing a 20 page business plan
How to apply an investor critique to your own ideas to find and innovate out weaknesses early
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Including:
What is Lean Startup and how to save time, energy and pain applying it practically
How to identify and prioritise which risks will kill your idea fastest
How to run "agile" sprints to keep focused and progress the most important things
How to design experiments to prove at the desirability (does anyone want it), feasibility (is it possible to deliver) and viability (will it make enough money) of a new idea, to yourself, team mates and investors
How to create a "Minimum Viable Product" cheaper, faster and with better learnings
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Including:
How to define who your ideal customer segment is and why that makes everything easier
How to use customer journey maps to design better solutions and solve for frictions in your own and competitor's solutions
How to run great customer interviews and why surveys don't work in the earliest stages
How to market with little to no budget
How to develop a Go to Market strategy that allows you to start targeted, but still build something big
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Including:
How to create a funding strategy that works for you and the business
How different funding options work, and when they are and aren't the right fit
How to find and build investor relationships
How to pitch your idea to investors
How to negotiate a term sheet
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Including:
Why you need to create a personal brand and how to do it in a way that's authentic
How to know when to invest in your company brand
How to create the most powerful company brand for your audience
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Including:
How to avoid common founder financial mistakes
How to create early financial models for new ideas that are just guesses
How to create a financial pitch for investors
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Including:
How to turn dull presentations into memorable ones using storytelling frameworks
How to answer the key questions investors have in a pitch
How to use vocal tone to bring your presentations to life
How to stand on stage to give the audience confidence in you
How to warm up ahead of a pitch so you look and sound great on stage
What training participant say…
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"Probably the best session we've had - lots of useful info, very interactive and engaging"
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“Love the examples that are given after each new point.”
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“Amazing workshop. Learned a lot”
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"delivery was polished and engaging, leaving a lasting impression on all participants.
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“a program that was transformational for all the Accelerator participants! The training was a fantastic combination of exciting and challenging.”
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"Fab, all really useful info and super easy to engage with"
Meet some of our coaches
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Andy Ayim
Serial Founder and Investor and Founder of Angel Investing School
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Felicity Halstead
Founder of GoodWork, an inclusive youth employment programme
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Gurvir Riyat
Former VC, Co-founder of The BAE HQ (for British Asian Entrepreneurs)
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Abigal Foster
Founder of Elent, Financial Education and Inclusion
FAQs
If you have anything else you want to ask, reach out to us.
Which industries do you work in?
We are industry agnostic, firmly believing in the benefit of cross-pollinating ideas for innovations across industries. Our trainers have experience serving clients in sectors including: Financial Services, Space Technology, Automotive, Logistics, Consumer Goods, Engineering, Maritime, and many more.
What size events can you run?
We can 1:1 coaching for team members, up to events for hundreds of employees.
Who are your trainers
Our trainers are experienced founders and intrepreneurs, who can bring our workshops and training to life with their own stories, experiences and hard won lessons.