Cumbria Chamber of Commerce’s annual business conference, Conference Cumbria, is back for another year with a fantastic line-up of speakers including broadcaster, presenter and former professional rugby player, Ugo Monye.
The event, which takes place on October 3 at Castle Green Hotel, Kendal, will feature a range of speakers alongside Ugo including entrepreneurs, local business leaders and industry experts. The latest speaker to join the line-up is Colin Bell.
Colin’s career has traversed the creation, development, and transformation of private and public sector organisations and programmes.
During the financial crisis Colin was part of an MBO team who rescued, scaled and sold Birmingham based tech and innovation business Winning Moves.
Since then, he’s worked with local and national government designing policy and programmes that enable more businesses to start, scale and improve.
Latterly, he’s founded several businesses including business transformation agency Leap the Crowd and specialist public relations company We Do Content.
Passionate about small business and entrepreneurship, Colin holds a Master’s in small business development and co-edited the book, Entrepreneurial Place Leadership: Negotiating the Entrepreneurial Landscape .
At Conference Cumbria, Colin will explore the dynamics of scale-up businesses and how business owners can break through common barriers to turn their scale-up potential into scale-up performance.
Local businesses are encouraged to sign up for what promises to be a fantastic day of talks, discussions, knowledge sharing and networking on the theme of ‘together towards tomorrow’ underlining the collaborative nature of the Cumbrian business community.
Tickets are available to buy from the chamber’s website and are charged at £65 plus VAT for members and £80 plus VAT for non-members, exhibition space can also be purchased with tickets.
It is sponsored by Cumberland Council, Westmorland & Furness Council, Leo Group, David Allen and Dodd & Co.
