Aston Science Park - Business Enterprise

Business Enterprise

Date:    Wednesday 25th June 2008
Venue: Aston Science Park, Birmingham. B7 4BB
Cost:    Free of charge – thanks to our sponsors
Series: Seminars for Success
Event:   Business Enterprise
Places: 100 places

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Synopsis
The Seminars for Success series identifies critical elements that a company will have to consider in order to drive sustainable business improvement and growth.

The events are extremely informative providing a powerful combination of personal development and networking, sponsored by a range of partners that wish to support the development and growth of businesses.

Who will benefit?
Any owner manager or senior executive with an interest in developing their business.

Table top exhibitions will be available during the breaks and open until 11.45am. This will allow delegates the opportunity to network and gain one to one advice and assistance. If you are in the business of offering support services to businesses looking to grow, you may wish to reserve an exhibition table top or leaflet drops in the delegate packs.

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Aston Science Park - The ideal business location

Picture of Faraday Wharf reception - entrance to the meeting rooms and conference facilities available for hire - call 0121 260 6000

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Agenda

08.00	Breakfast and networking
08.45	WELCOME
	Matthew Hidderley, Marketing & Sales Manager
	of Aston Science Park
	Chair - Andy Parker, MD, Parker Business Development
08.55	SECTION 1 - BUSINESS GRAVITAS
	Mike Pagan, Director, Breaking Frontiers • Speaking with gravitas • Nailing it with clients
09.10	SECTION 2 - BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
	John Rainford, CEO, Strawberry Fields • Creativity for Competitive Advantage
09.25	NETWORKING BREAK
09.50	SECTION 3 - BUSINESS INNOVATION
	John Bailey, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Aston University • How can universities help businesses innovate? • Would a FREE £3k voucher help?
10.05	SECTION 4 - BUSINESS GROWTH
	John Sealey, Director, Your Marketing Matters • Improving sales and marketing
10.20	Summary, Q&A and closing remarks
10.45	Close

Business Enterprise Event Speakers

*Mike Pagan*		*Director, Breaking Frontiers Ltd & President of The Professional Speakers Association* Mike Pagan is a speaker, consultant and expert on client management. He believes in making business simple and achieves this as a Profiler - A profiler of businesses, their staff and their clients. Companies invest in staff development, assessment and motivation, what about their clients, they pay the bills?
*John Rainford*		*CEO, Strawberry Fields & Keynote Lecturer* John is a leading authority on Creativity and Innovation. He is a thought leader and keynote speaker at major world events, more recently at the World Summit for Entrepreneurship. He lectures at Universities in the USA, Europe and Asia on Creativity for Competitive Advantage, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, Creativity, Marketing and Leadership.
*John Sealey*		*Director, Your Marketing Matters* John is "The Courageous Marketeer" - a business enhancement specialist. He knows how hard it can be to build a business and how developing a business that works is even more challenging. John is a speaker who can identify with the ups and downs of business, what works and what doesn't. He assists businesses to achieve MAXIMUM performance.
*John Bailey*		*Pro-Vice Chancellor at Aston University* John is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Business Partnerships & Knowledge Transfer at Aston University, managing the commercial arm: the Business Partnership Unit. He is responsible for a team of 12 who cater for the needs of both internal and external clients. John has been in senior management positions at Aston for a number of years having previously worked in industrial marketing for one of the major oil companies.
*Andy Parker*		*Chair of Event & MD at Parker Business Development* Andy is a Chartered Accountant and MD of Parker Business Development Ltd & Parker Financial Planning Ltd. Andy works primarily on tax planning projects however his companies provide a range of financial business services to the owner managed business sector. The Seminars for Success programme has proved to fit well with Parker Business Development’s focus of adding value to their clients and they are proud to be associated with them.

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