Initium Corporate Finance
A proudly employee-owned business, Initium is a specialist corporate finance advisor, partnering with privately owned businesses up to, during and beyond a business sale transaction.
Initium has been acknowledged as a Sunday Times Best Place to Work in 2024 and 2025 and are successfully recognised for having consistently high levels of employee experience and wellbeing. In addition, Initium has been named as an Industry Award winner for Financial Services for companies with 10-40 employees. Initium specialises in transactions with a typical deal value between £10m-£100m.
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Freeman Clarke
Freeman Clarke is the UK’s largest and most experienced team of fractional CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs. We work exclusively with mid-sized businesses, providing board-level technology leadership on a part-time, flexible basis. Our experts help ambitious companies use technology to drive growth, efficiency and resilience, without the cost of a full-time executive. Whether it’s digital transformation, AI & automation, cybersecurity or creating scalable systems, we provide pragmatic, commercially focused leadership tailored to your business.
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People Puzzles
People Puzzles is the UK’s leading provider of fractional People Directors. We help ambitious businesses overcome barriers by taking a commercial and strategic approach to people planning to achieve bottom-line growth and to accelerate business outcomes. You benefit from affordable, flexible access to the very top level of people expertise, with our UK-wide team of 90+ People Directors working 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
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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 and 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.
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APM
We’re APM: Association for Project Management. We’re the only chartered membership organisation representing the project profession in the world. We set the standards for the profession and raise its profile. We’re a registered charity, delivering learning opportunities and developing qualifications, conducting research and providing resources. We run events, share best practice and give the project management community “individuals, our volunteers and corporate partners” the opportunity to connect and collaborate.
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Wilson Partners
At Wilson Partners, we’re passionate about SME businesses and their owners. We’re accountants by trade, but really we’re a group of ambitious entrepreneurs and business enthusiasts that exists to provide the first-class information, analysis and advice that empowers our 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 we do, we 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, we will help you make better decisions.
We’re proud to work with MD2MD and sponsor this LeaderFest event.
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Weightmans
Weightmans is a leading UK law firm, with a national network of offices, offering a full spectrum of legal services. With more than 260 partners and 1,500 people, more than 140 specialisms recognised and 453 experts listed in Chambers and Legal 500, we are dedicated to putting our clients at the heart of everything we do.
We recognise that owner managed businesses are a key part of the UK economy and a highly valued component of our own client base. Our expert team offers a full spectrum of services, working closely with a variety of clients ranging from tech start-ups to high growth entrepreneur-driven companies and mature family businesses that have been through generational ownership change.
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Kiss the Fish
Kiss the Fish is a UK-based sales consultancy, providing fractional CROs 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 us a natural fit as a LeaderFest sponsor, reflecting our shared belief in empowering leaders to thrive.
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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.
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