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Green Park Conference Centre

Green Park believe that people thrive in exceptional environments. As the home to 60 companies, they work closely with their occupiers to ensure everyone has the opportunity to connect, thrive and grow – through their real estate offer, green spaces and community.

Health and wellbeing is integrated into everything they do at Green Park, with an events programme of 500+ underpinning life at Green Park, from weekly bootcamps, yoga classes and a walking group through to language classes and the ever-popular Street Food Festival. Community inclusive events are integral to Green Park’s ethos: they’re delighted to be home to the Reading 10k, to support the Reading Half Marathon and collaborate closely with a range of local charities.

Freeman Clarke

Freeman Clarke is the largest and most experienced team of board-level technology leaders. Their 100+ CIOs, CTOs and CISOs work on a fractional & flexible basis which means you can access a top class strategic IT expert at the fraction of a cost of a full timer. Freeman Clarke help businesses leverage IT to drive growth. They typically work with clients in the following areas: IT strategy, AI and automation, bespoke software development, systems and digital initiatives, data and reporting, cyber security and team development and mentoring.

For a no-strings conversation please get in touch: contact@freemanclarke.co.uk or 0203 020 1864. It all starts with a conversation.

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Initium

Initium is a specialist sell-side corporate finance firm. In plain English? They will help you identify the value in your business. They will help you build your business for sale. Then, when the right time comes, they will help you sell your business. They are proudly employee owned and were named one of The Sunday Times Best Places To Work for 2024 and 2025, when they also won the Financial Services industry award.

Values-led, and committed to creating impact beyond the deal, Initium helps business leaders to adjust to life post sale, via its unique Fellows community of 250+ former clients.

Weightmans

Weightmans is a leading UK national law firm with teams and offices all over the UK. With 146 specialisms recognised and 453 experts listed in key legal directories, the firm offers a full spectrum of services to built environment enterprises, large corporate institutions, health organisations, insurance companies, public sector bodies, owner managed businesses and individual private clients. They are well-equipped to provide a full legal service to all of their clients and have the resources to deal with the most demanding legal needs, both in the UK and overseas.

Wilson Partners

Wilson Partners are passionate about SME businesses and their owners. They are accountants by trade, but really they are a group of ambitious entrepreneurs and business enthusiasts that exists to provide the first-class information, analysis and advice that empowers their clients to make optimal financial decisions to achieve the best outcomes and help them achieve their goals and priorities. With business advice and expertise in all manner of accounting at the heart of what they do, Wilson Partners help businesses at every stage of their journey, from foundation to exit. Whether it’s general accounting, strategic planning, tax, audit, valuation, acquisition or everything else in between, they will help you make better decisions.

“We’re proud to work with MD2MD and sponsor this LeaderFest event.”

Kiss the Fish

Kiss the Fish is a UK-based sales consultancy, providing fractional CRO’s  and expert coaching & training designed to drive sustainable revenue growth. Founded in 2007 by Andrew Milbourn, former Board Director at Future PLC, the company covers the whole of the UK.  Kiss the Fish embeds seamlessly into client organisations, identifying growth opportunities & creating strategy, optimising pricing and negotiation strategies and enhancing team performance without the cost of a full-time executive. Their evidence-based methods, personal profiling tools and commitment to real-world results make them a natural fit as a LeaderFest sponsor, reflecting our shared belief in empowering leaders to thrive.

Contact  info@kissthefish.net

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OurPulse

At OurPulse, we understand the profound impact that mental health and well-being have on individuals and communities. Having personally experienced the challenges of poor mental health and suicide among friends, family, and colleagues, we are deeply committed to making a difference.

Our mission is to provide independent, trusted cutting-edge healthcare and technology solutions that not only meet the highest standards of quality and compliance but also address the critical need for mental health support and interventions.

People Puzzles

People Puzzles is the UK’s leading provider of fractional People Directors, a nationwide team of strategic people experts to help you get the people stuff right and achieve your business goals faster. We help ambitious businesses overcome typical barriers to growth and tackle people problems, taking a commercial, strategic approach to people planning to achieve bottom-line growth and to accelerate business outcomes. You benefit from affordable, flexible access to the most experienced team of more than 85 HR Directors and CPOs in the UK who work alongside your senior leadership team in as little as a day a week with no long-term tie-ins or binding contracts. Whatever your business goals or current challenges, we have the experience and proven approaches to support your ambitions and deliver commercial value from day one.

For a free, 30 minute consultation with your local Regional Director, please email  hello@peoplepuzzles.co.uk  or call us on 0345 646 5201