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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Agenda
| 08.00 | Breakfast and networking | | 08.45 | WELCOME | | Matthew Hidderley, Marketing & Sales Manager | | of Aston Science Park | | Chair - HSBC | | 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
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| 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 COMMUNICATION | | Asha Pawar, Director, Asha PR Ltd • Getting the message across | | 10.20 | Summary, Q&A and closing remarks | | 10.45 | Close |
Business Enterpise 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. |  Asha Pawar
| | Director, Asha PR Ltd Asha has worked as an independent consultant since 1998. She has undertaken and worked on a number of projects on personal, professional and organisational management with private businesses through to NHS and local authority organisations. She also has a track record of researching, assessing, planning, developing as well as delivering training programmes that are central to race and equalities issues. |  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. |
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