Event: The Big Breakfast

Book your place today! Join us for an insightful Business Breakfast and network with fellow like-minded individuals while enjoying a full English breakfast with tea and coffee. Following on from our Focus Groups and LSIP events, we want to share your voice and showcase the findings from Phase 1 of our LSIP and the key topics discussed in our Focus group and address how we can help support you and your business. This event will focus on areas you want more support in, highlighted in our Focus Groups such as: retaining staff, workplace skills, wellbeing in the workplace, digital infrastructure, connectivity, and more. Join the conversation and have your voice heard by submitting your questions live to our panels. Why should you come along to the breakfast? As a local Norfolk business, you want: •To increase the growth of your business. •Your team to develop the skills to become engaged, empowered and enabled to deliver great results. •To retain the talent within your business and effectively succession plan your team. •To attract the right people, for culture, for growth and for success. We are continuing to engage with businesses of all sizes, stakeholders, colleges, training providers and universities to enable a more responsive and collaborative approach to the development of the local workforce. Confirmed speakers James Ingham, UPP James currently works as a Community Liaison Manager for Upp, who are busy rolling out a full fibre broadband network across the East of England. James’ role within Upp allows him to be very active with the Norfolk and Cambridgeshire community, engaging and supporting all levels of local Government, community organisations and business groups. A Loughborough University graduate, his career started at a Premier League Football Club where he progressed onto a Partnerships Manager role, before joining a Sports Marketing Agency based in Norfolk. In 2018, he moved into a new industry, challenging himself in the communications and technology sector by working with a global Satellite communications company in the Commercial and then Product team, before joining Upp in his current role in late 2021. In the spring of 2023, James joined the charity Norfolk and Waveney Mind as a Trustee. Gemma Crane, Mindset HR Gemma, Director and founder of this business has 25 years of HR experience and has worked in a variety of sectors and industries in an HR capacity. Gemma became an NLP Practitioner in 2012, Theta Healer Practitioner 2020, Life Coach 2019, and studied Quantum physics 2019 and is a member and Coach of the Proctor Gallagher Institute. Gemma has a 9 year old son, loves to sing and dance and loves holistic therapy. Her life purpose is educate people around Mindset and how you can create your own reality and desired future by tapping into your higher mental faculties. Gemma is also a trustee of the Red Balloon Learners Centre in Norwich which is an independent school which supports 11-16 years who have difficult life experiences to transition into adult hood with confidence, belief and mindset to succeed. Harry Harris, Swarm Training Harry has 35 years of experience in leadership and management within his own businesses along with working in the production and logistics sectors. From a challenging background, he gained a Batchelors Degree with Honours in business management and a Masters Degree in entrepreneurial management with distinction at the age of 48. He has worked with Government backed and local Government business advisory services, working with start-ups and organisations going through periods of growth. Over the last 8 years, Harry has worked in the training and consultancy sector, working with Swarm Training CIC to become a national apprenticeship provider providing apprenticeships to some of the globes largest organisations. Harry is co-founder of Swarm Bluewater, a newly formed business providing commercial training and consultancy worldwide. James Howells, Turning Factor With thanks to our headline sponsors Turning Factor