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SUMMARY:Crisis in the Cotswolds - A leadership strategy dinner
DESCRIPTION:Open to all SME Business Leaders \nInspired by the atmosphere of a classic Cotswolds country-manor evening\, but reimagined as a high-stakes strategic challenge\, Crisis in the Cotswolds is an exclusive MD2MD experience\, delivered in partnership with Weightmans\, Freeman Clarke and The CFO Centre. This luxurious\, immersive evening is designed to test teamwork\, decision-making and leadership resilience. \nAs you enjoy a three-course dinner\, the story unfolds. A successful business has been plunged into a sudden crisis. Markets are shifting\, stakeholders are panicking\, key clients are wavering and crucial information is revealed course by course. \n\nParticipants will receive digital crisis packs and assigned to tables in advance and informed of their fellow “board members”.  Throughout the dinner\, you’ll navigate escalating pressures\, disruptive news flashes\, expert interventions and time-critical decisions. It’s a true test of calm under pressure\, collaboration and strategic nerve. \nWith expert input from our partners\, Weightmans\, Freeman Clarke and The CFO Centre\, each table will shape and refine its turnaround plan as the evening unfolds. \nAt the end of the night\, every table will present its plan\, with the team demonstrating the strongest strategic thinking and leadership cohesion crowned the winner of the prestigious Crisis in the Cotswolds Award. \nCelebrations will then continue at the indoor and outdoor bars. \nContact the MD2MD Team for further information and costs.
URL:https://www.md2md.co.uk/event/crisis-in-the-cotswolds-dinner-event-july-2026/
LOCATION:Moreton-in-Marsh
CATEGORIES:Social networking dinner
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SUMMARY:Discover Your Leadership Voice
DESCRIPTION:Are you aware that 82% of team members feel misunderstood or undervalued? As a result\, the average team functions at less than 60% of their true potential and many leaders are ignorant of the under performance of their teams or not sure how to solve it. \nThis workshop has transformed leadership influence and team dynamics around the world. The tools that you will be taught give practical insights about how to develop your own leadership so that you can bring the best out of those you lead. \n \nThis workshop will be presented by Senior Leadership Consultants Simon Kirby and Roz Hobley of Wakeman & Wright Group\, who have extensive experience helping leaders thrive and build healthy organisations. \nWakeman & Wright are experts in relational intelligence and work with a wealth of businesses and organisations including Google\, GSK\, Angelini Pharma\, Greencore\, The Treasury and Habitat for Humanity. \nWhy attend?\n\nYou will discover leadership insights that will help you to increase your influence in your business and team\nYou will be given the tools that will help you to raise team productivity\nYou will discover why you find some team members so difficult and why they feel the same about you\n\nWhat will be covered?\n\nThe innate strengths that different voices bring to your team and how that translates commercially\nThe challenges and blind spots for each voice. If left unmanaged\, they hinder team performance and risk limiting your leadership influence\nKey concepts to build relational trust and psychological safety within a team\n\nTakeaways\n\nMore effective communication strategies to improve your business alignment\nAccelerated self-awareness to elevate your leadership impact\nPersonal Development Plan to address areas where you risk losing influence\nA leadership framework to take into your team and business to build relational trust to increase team performance\n\nPlease email events@MD2MD.co.uk to register your interest.
URL:https://www.md2md.co.uk/event/leadership-voice-workshop-july-2026/
LOCATION:Moreton-in-Marsh
CATEGORIES:In-person workshop
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SUMMARY:AI - Collaborative Learning Group Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This is a confidential collaborative learning group dedicated to challenges leaders face when making decisions relevant to AI implementation in their business. The objective for the meetings is to focus on the specific area of AI implementation and to exchange ideas and best practice relevant to optimising AI within organisations. \n \nWhat will be covered?\n\nThe subject matter is set by the participants\, with added stimulus from the group manager and facilitator to fuel the session. \nThe sessions stimulate a wealth of interesting views and ideas from participants across a range of business sectors. \nSome suggested topics of discussion: \n\n\nHow to automate repetitive tasks\nAm I optimising my current AI tools\nHow will AI affect my staffing?\nWhat are the problems AI can solve?\nAny risks or security issues\nAI Language Model Capabilities\n\nThis group will meet regularly across the year and hosted by Niël Malan and facilitated by Tom Scrimgour. \n \n \nClick here to learn more about the group.
URL:https://www.md2md.co.uk/event/ai-collaborative-learning-group-discussion-july-2026/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Hot topic discussion
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SUMMARY:Leading Through Midlife Transitions: What Senior Women Need Now
DESCRIPTION:This is a chance to go beyond simple menopausal awareness and straight into leadership reality. I want to hear directly from you about: \n\nwhat’s working\nwhat’s failing\nwhat’s missing\nAnd what needs to happen next if organisations are serious about supporting women through menopause.\n\nMy work sits at the intersection of leadership\, culture change\, and the male perspective. I’ve written Conversation Shifts for Men: Leadership\, menopause and the case for Workplace Change\, and I’ve spent years helping leaders tackle the difficult\, unspoken\, systemic issues that quietly shape careers. \nThe session isn’t a lecture but a strategic conversation. \nYour insights will directly shape the next evolution of leader education\, male allyship\, and organisational practice. \n\nWe will explore four themes\, each designed to open up the conversation. \n1. The Strategic Landscape: Why This Matters Now \nUnderstanding whether menopause is seen as a genuine organisational priority\, or still a private\, hidden struggle. \n2. Culture & Accountability: What Organisations Get Wrong\, and What Great Ones Do \nExploring how culture\, systems\, line managers\, and psychological safety all affect whether women stay\, step back\, or step up. \n3. The Conversation Shift: What Language Actually Lands with Men\, Leaders & Boards\nCo-testing ideas\, tone\, framing and male-allyship messages which land with men\, executives and Boards. \n4. Practical Wins: What You’d Want Your CEO or HRD to Do Tomorrow Morning\nIdentifying the most useful\, realistic\, high-impact steps that organisations can take. \nHow I’ll Use These Insights\nYour insights will feed directly into: \n\nnext-stage leader education and male allyship development\npractical tools for line managers and senior leaders\nrefined messaging for boards\, CEOs\, and HRDs\nmy speaking\, consulting\, and training programmes designed to change the workplace narrative\n\nThis group has the lived experience and leadership insight that can reshape how organisations treat menopause\, not as an HR initiative\, but as a culture and performance imperative. \nWhy attend?\nAbout me: \nGuy Ellis \n \nI coach senior women in finance\, tech and other male-dominated environments to rebuild confidence\, raise their profile\, and lead with calm\, credible authority in systems that weren’t designed with them in mind. With decades of experience as an HR Director\, change consultant\, and leadership coach\, I understand how organisations really work and where they quietly hold women back. \nI founded Courageous Workplaces and developed the Leadership Inside Out framework to help leaders cut through organisational noise\, navigate tough dynamics\, and lead with greater clarity\, courage and impact. My clients come for honest\, strategic conversations and leave with sharper thinking\, practical steps forward\, and the confidence to progress whether that means stepping into the C-suite\, influencing at board level\, or simply reclaiming space to lead well. I also speak and write about the often unseen challenges women face at work\, from confidence erosion and being “too nice” to career-defining transitions that rarely get discussed openly. \nTakeaways\nBy the end of the session\, you will leave with: \n\nA clear understanding of what forward-thinking organisations are starting to do right\nPractical\, high-impact ideas you can apply immediately in your own workplace\nThe chance to directly influence the next wave of leadership-focused menopause support\nA complimentary copy of my book
URL:https://www.md2md.co.uk/event/womens-midlife-transitions-workshop-august-2026/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Topic workshop online
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SUMMARY:Recruit for the business you’re building A practical session on hiring\, developing and keeping the team you’ll need in three years
DESCRIPTION:Most MDs hire for the gap in front of them. A role opens\, someone leaves\, a team is stretched\, so they hire for what is missing right now. But the businesses pulling ahead are thinking differently; they are making deliberate decisions about the kind of organisation they are becoming\, and building their teams accordingly. \nIn this interactive session\, People Puzzles People Director Nicola Harris challenges you to think about recruitment not as an operational task\, but as a strategic one. Because the people who will drive your business forward in three years might look very different from the people you are hiring today. \n\nWhy attend?\nIf you have a growth plan but have not thought seriously about whether (or how) your people strategy can keep pace with it\, this session is for you. You will leave with a clearer picture of the workforce your business actually needs\, practical tools to close the gap\, and a sharper sense of how to hire for potential\, not just track record. It is a session for MDs who are thinking about the next phase of growth – not just the next hire. \nThis workshop is led by Nicola Harris\, People Director at People Puzzles \n \nNicola is a former Global CPO and Group HR Director with 25 years of experience advising leaders on people strategy across the UK\, Europe and beyond. She has worked with scaling businesses\, PE-backed organisations and large corporates\, leading people strategy through periods of rapid growth\, acquisition and transformation. She is known for being commercially sharp\, genuinely engaging and brilliant at making complex people challenges feel solvable. Expect a session that feels more like a conversation than a presentation. \nLinkedIn \nWhat will be covered?\nUsing proven approaches and frameworks\, Nicola will guide the group through the strategic thinking that sits behind great hiring decisions. Expect honest conversation about where most businesses go wrong\, practical tools for understanding the gap between where your team is now and where your business needs to go\, and a fresh perspective on what to look for when you are hiring for the long game rather than the immediate fix. \nThe session is deliberately interactive. Nicola will draw on real experience with scaling businesses to make the content feel relevant to the room\, not generic. Come ready to think\, to share\, and to leave with something you can actually use. \nTakeaways\nWhat you will take away \nA clearer sense of where your people strategy is strong\, where it has gaps\, and what to do next. Nicola will share practical tools you can take straight back into your business\, alongside the kind of thinking that tends to shift how leaders approach hiring for good.
URL:https://www.md2md.co.uk/event/recruiting-workshop-september-2026/
LOCATION:Birmingham
CATEGORIES:In-person workshop
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SUMMARY:AI - Collaborative Learning Group Discussion
DESCRIPTION:This is a confidential collaborative learning group dedicated to challenges leaders face when making decisions relevant to AI implementation in their business. The objective for the meetings is to focus on the specific area of AI implementation and to exchange ideas and best practice relevant to optimising AI within organisations. \n \nWhat will be covered?\n\nThe subject matter is set by the participants\, with added stimulus from the group manager and facilitator to fuel the session. \nThe sessions stimulate a wealth of interesting views and ideas from participants across a range of business sectors. \nSome suggested topics of discussion: \n\n\nHow to automate repetitive tasks\nAm I optimising my current AI tools\nHow will AI affect my staffing?\nWhat are the problems AI can solve?\nAny risks or security issues\nAI Language Model Capabilities\n\nThis group will meet regularly across the year and hosted by Niël Malan and facilitated by Tom Scrimgour. \n \n \nClick here to learn more about the group.
URL:https://www.md2md.co.uk/event/ai-collaborative-learning-group-discussion-october-2026/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Hot topic discussion
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SUMMARY:Optimising pricing to grow revenues
DESCRIPTION:Pricing is the most powerful\, yet underutilised lever for profit growth. Many businesses still rely on cost-plus approaches and underprice the true value they deliver. \nThis interactive workshop led by Rory and Lauren of Simon Kucher will equip business leaders with practical tools to improve pricing and monetisation decisions to help grow revenues. \n\nWhat will be covered?\nIn this session\, participants will: \n\nUnderstand why pricing is so important and the most effective profit lever\nLearn a framework to structure pricing decisions (what to sell\, how to charge\, how much to charge)\nIdentify where they may be leaving money on the table today\nLearn practical pricing psychology techniques (e.g. anchoring\, framing\, decoy effects) to influence customer decisions\nExplore proven approaches to increase prices and improve price discipline\nDefine a clear\, actionable pricing initiative to implement in their business\n\nThe session will be highly interactive\, with peer discussions and breakout exercises designed to apply concepts directly to each member’s business. \nSimon-Kucher is a global consultancy firm with over 2\,000 employees in 30+ countries focused on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. With over 38 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds – Simon-Kucher are regarded as the world’s leading pricing and growth specialist. \nTopic Experts: \n \nRory Sweeney is a Partner based in Simon-Kucher’s London office. \nHe specialises in working with B2B software/SaaS\, information/data providers\, events\, and tech-enabled businesses\, with a particular focus on go-to-market and pricing topics. \nHe has 10 years of strategy consulting experience\, having led 60+ engagements for both corporate and private-equity backed companies\, delivering actionable recommendations to grow companies’ revenues \nHis expertise spans growth strategy formulation\, customer segmentation\, value proposition and positioning\, business model design and transformation\, packaging/bundling architecture\, pricing strategies\, sales incentives redesign\, and operating model redesign/implementation \nPrior to joining Simon-Kucher\, Rory worked in strategic pricing at RELX Group and was formerly a management consultant with Accenture. Rory holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Bath. \nLinkedIn \n  \n  \n \nLauren Carter is an experienced Commercial Growth expert at Simon-Kucher with over a decade spent focused on strategy\, marketing and pricing\, supporting over 50+ clients across the globe. Leads much on Simon-Kucher’s client work in the Consumer Goods & Retail industry within the UK market supporting companies on commercial topics including go-to-market strategy\, brand strategy\, strategic pricing\, RGM\, price & promotional optimisation and trade term development. With a particular focus on the FMCG and fashion/apparel industries. Additionally\, considerable experience supporting Industries\, Construction\, Energy & Telco companies on customer segmentation\, value prop. development\, pricing & packaging optimisation\, customer base management\, loyalty schemes and sales optimisation. \nLinkedIn
URL:https://www.md2md.co.uk/event/optimising-pricing-workshop-october-2026/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:In-person workshop
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SUMMARY:An Interview with Laura Riley
DESCRIPTION:From Surviving to Leading With Purpose\nLaura Riley’s journey is one of courage\, reinvention\, and remarkable resilience. From adapting to new countries as a child\, to working on the front line of mental health care\, to rebuilding her life as a young mother escaping abuse.  Laura has overcome challenges that would stop many in their tracks. \nIn 2013 she founded Mums In Need\, a charity supporting mothers experiencing post-separation abuse and coercive control. Today\, as CEO\, she leads a growing team\, supports fellow charity leaders\, and delivers accredited training to help employers recognise and support staff affected by domestic abuse. \nIn this interview\, Laura will share: \n\n\nHow she went from staff nurse to charity CEO \n\n\nThe tools she uses to stay resilient while juggling life and leadership \n\n\nHow adversity shaped her confidence\, purpose and drive \n\n\nPractical insights for women leading through pressure and change \n\n\nExpect an open\, practical and inspiring Q&A with plenty of real-world insights you can bring back into your own life and leadership.
URL:https://www.md2md.co.uk/event/laura-riley-interview-october-2026/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Interview with question & answer session
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