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‘Disruptive Minds’ by Vodafone and Great British Entrepreneur Awards is an initiative bringing together entrepreneurs and business leaders to provide invaluable insight into the challenges and learnings they’ve experienced. 

Representing a broad spectrum of businesses, Disruptive Minds will spark conversations that matter, feeding fresh insights into the small business community, based on expert understanding to help to drive SME growth in the UK. Disruptive Minds aims to encourage you to think differently, whilst learning from those in your community.

Disruptive Minds members:

Abigail & Chloe Baldwin, Buttercrumble

Adeem Younis, Penny Appeal

Alison Edgar MBE, The Entrepreneur’s Godmother

Christopher Kenna, Brand Advance

Dave Linton, Madlug

Jo Dalton, JD&Co

Jo-Anne Chidley, Beauty Kitchen

Joe Binder, WOAW

Josh Wintersgill, Able Move

Kat Pither, Yogi Bare

Lucy Cohen, Mazuma

Mike Dunn, Excel TM Group

Nohman Ahmed, Crep Protect

Rimi Thapar, LoveRaw

Sanjay Lobo, onHand

Sebastian Vanderlinden, Yumi Nutrition

Shan Hanif, Genflow

Sheryl Miller, Reboot Global

Sophie Milliken, Moja Group

Tru Powell, Serial Entrepreneur

Events

We have now entered into a new year, which will be a time when business owners reflect on what went well and what they struggled with in the year previous - in doing this businesses will create priorities to focus on. In this session, the Disruptive Minds taskforce by Vodafone and GBEA will be investigating how SMEs can focus on staying afloat and overcoming the hurdles they are facing in the aftermath of Covid-19. This will encourage conversation around these aspects, providing valuable insight and advice from SME owners and employees.
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The prevalence of wellbeing and mental health support and acceptance in the workplace is growing, and it is more important now than ever that businesses are implementing wellbeing practices into their businesses models. As SMEs are smaller, the impacts of employees mental health could have a bigger effect on the team if not dealt with in the right manner. The smaller the team, the more responsibility. In this session, the Disruptive Minds taskforce by Vodafone and GBEA will be investigating how SMEs can increase mental health and wellbeing awareness to ensure employees are a priority in the workplace.
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Over the last few years we have seen a huge increase in the number of new small to medium enterprises opening, with a huge majority of those coming from London and the East of England. Why is this? Does London have more access to resources than other regions? And what can be done to ensure that SMEs are pushed in other regions? In this session, the Disruptive Minds taskforce by Vodafone and GBEA will investigate how SMEs in other regions can grow and which resources they need to do so.
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Technology has been victim to a number of advancements over the last decade, and many businesses are trying to keep up with the changes whereas others are happy to stick to what they know. SMEs are known to be innovators or early adaptors when it comes to technology, whilst others are laggards - waiting as long as they can to make changes. So, which is better for your businesses? What are the advantages and disadvantages of being an early adaptor or a laggard? In this session, Disruptive Minds taskforce by Vodafone and GBEA will look into both sides of the story and open up conversation around technology in SMEs.
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