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🎉 Congratulations to Kieran S. who celebrates his third anniversary with Emerge Digital today! 🎉 #EmergeDigital #Team #ServiceDesk

The Gloucestershire Growth Forum was held yesterday at the University of Gloucestershire, and what an event it was! Here's how guests have described the day in posts they've shared: ➡️ A fabulous morning with superb content ➡️ Inspiring leadership talk ➡️ It's the sign of a great event when there are two 'tracks', but you want to go to all of the speakers.  ➡️ Very insightful session on how we can harness new Tech and AI into our business ➡️ Took away lots of valuable insights to consider ➡️ So many inspiring discussions with local business owners 👍 Thank you to all our guests who joined us and for sharing what you took from the day with your networks. We would also like to thank our speakers for their insightful talks: 👏 Alex Brown, Keynote Speaker - Leading On and Off The Pitch 👏 Paul Hillis - Why Salespeople Fail (And What You Can Do About It) 👏 Camilla Barnes - Transform Into a Socially & Environmentally Responsible Business – Is B Corp Certification For You? 👏 Nikolas Venios - Brilliant Problems = Awesome Opportunity 👏 Peter Quintana - Building to Sell – preparing your business for a successful exit. 👏 Tom Henson - How to Ignite Tech Powered Growth 👏 Nigel Griffiths - Funding Growth: How to Secure Investment and Maximise Business Value 👏 Hayley Parker & Elaine Warwicker - Unleash the 5 Behaviours of a Cohesive Team for Business Growth and Success Keep a look out 👀 for formal photos and video content from the day... coming soon! #EmergeDigital #IgniteGrowth #GlosGrowthForum

Great to have you join us Max Hough 👍 Thanks for sharing your experience of the day. #EmergeDigital #GloucestershireGrowthForum

🛶 Emerge Digital's Charity Canoeing Challenge takes place this weekend! 🛶 Each pair will be canoeing 15-miles along the River Wye. For a bit of fun, which pair do you think will cross the finish line first? (We couldn't fit all the pairs in on the voting options, so you can also 'vote' for James and Sam or Ash C and Roger by commenting below.) #EmergeDigital #Charity #PaddleWithPurpose #Team

A well-integrated Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system can be the difference between growing your client relationships and losing opportunities. Businesses often face the decision of choosing a pre-built CRM like Salesforce or building a custom CRM tailored specifically to their needs. The cost of building a custom CRM varies widely and depends on factors like complexity, integration, and ongoing development. If you’re wondering how much it costs to build a custom CRM, read on to understand the factors influencing this investment and whether a bespoke system is the right choice for your business. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eSw736Cu #EmergeDigital #CRM #TechnologyEnablement

📢 We need your support! 📢 This weekend, the Emerge Digital team is swapping keyboards for paddles as we take on a 15-mile canoeing adventure along the River Wye, all in support of our Charities of the Year: The King's Trust, WWT, and Cheltenham Animal Shelter. Our goal is to raise £1,500, which will be split equally between these incredible causes, helping them continue their vital work in our communities and beyond. ➡️ We're currently at 19% of our target. Every donation, no matter how small, will make a difference. Please help us paddle our way to this target and make waves for these wonderful charities. Thank you for your support. https://lnkd.in/e_mtzfk9 #EmergeDigital #Charity #PaddleWithPurpose #Team

We have some great news to share at the end of a busy week… We've been shortlisted for FOUR Circle2Success Ltd Regional Business Awards 2025! 🎉 ➡️ Cyber & IT Business of the Year Award ➡️ Small Business of the Year ➡️ Customer Excellence Award ➡️ Change Management and Innovation Award It's great to have our team and their skills recognised in this way, and we're excited to see if we progress to finalists! We'll see all those shortlisted at the celebratory drinks evening next week! 👍 #EmergeDigital #C2SAwards #C2SAwards2025

Last week, Tom Henson, Jack Stevens ACIM, Sergei Drew and Frederik Wilks visited the Microsoft AI Tour at the ExCeL in London. As well as posing for a photo on the giant Surface, the team heard from Microsoft UK CEO Darren Hardman about the economic opportunity that AI brings to the UK, before hearing from Microsoft CCO Judson Althoff on Microsoft's AI Transformation approach using Copilot, Agentic AI and Microsoft's suite of AI services including the Azure AI Foundry. Throughout the day they attended a series of workshops and talks, ranging from building agents in Copilot Studio, and the security fundamentals of Copilot, to AI across the Power Platform, and how to adopt agentic AI.   Jack said: "It was an inspiring day of seeing AI in action, and learning directly from Microsoft and the UK's top organisations on the impact that AI is having." #EmergeDigital #GiantSurface #Microsoft #Training #AI

📢 Our final speaker announcement for Gloucestershire Growth Forum puts the spotlight on Hayley Parker of Tandem Consultancy. 📢 Hayley has over 25 years’ experience working with SMEs and large corporates in the UK and internationally. She has developed and delivered strategic and operational plans for start-ups through to corporates, led large-scale change programmes and has experience of leading and motivating sales, operations and risk teams. She knows the importance of taking people with you and is used to managing complex senior stakeholders. Hayley is passionate about supporting organisations to achieve their potential and loves nothing more than improving business, team and individual performance through people development and cultural change. Having worked as a leadership expert, business adviser and change consultant for over 10 years, she has a very clear and precise understanding of the challenges that businesses face, with the ability to turn a problem into an opportunity. ➡️ Hayley's talk is titled: Unleash the 5 Behaviours of a Cohesive Team for Business Growth and Success Using Patrick Lencioni’s 5 dysfunctions of a team model, we will explore how to accelerate the right behaviours for team success and business growth. ‼️ There's just ONE week to go until the Gloucestershire Growth Forum! 📅 Wednesday 19 March 2025 ⏰ 08:00 - 13:30 📍 University of Gloucestershire, Oxstalls Campus, GL2 9HW Secure your ticket today 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/eAmzyaAF #EmergeDigital #IgniteGrowth #GlosGrowthForum

📢 The speaker announcements for Gloucestershire Growth Forum continue! 📢 Today, we're delighted to reveal another guest speaker - Nigel Griffiths, Consultant at FRP Advisory. Nigel Griffiths is a corporate finance expert with over 30 years of experience helping businesses scale, secure investment, and navigate successful transactions. Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1990 with a Big Four firm, he specialised in consultancy within the technology sector before founding his own consultancy firm in 1999, which he successfully sold in 2008. In 2020, Nigel joined Lexington Corporate Finance to help grow the business and establish a technology-focused corporate finance team. During his time there, he led major transactions, including the sale of Red Cortex to TPX Impact, the sale of Evo-Soft to BCN Group, and a £5m investment by BGF in PureCyber. Following FRP’s acquisition of Lexington in 2024, Nigel is now based in their Cardiff office, continuing to advise high-growth businesses on funding, acquisitions, and maximising business value. ➡️ Nigel's talk is titled: Funding Growth: How to Secure Investment and Maximise Business Value Scaling a business requires investment - but how do you secure the right funding and position your company for long-term success? In this session, Nigel Griffiths, will break down the key principles of funding growth, from market expansion strategies and sales optimisation to private equity and valuation techniques. He’ll cover the different ways to finance growth, how investors assess business value, and the critical factors that can increase your company’s attractiveness to funders and acquirers. Whether you’re looking to fuel organic expansion, fund acquisitions, or de-risk your position as a shareholder, this session will give you practical insights into navigating the funding landscape and achieving a premium valuation for your business. ➡️ Join local business leaders, industry experts, and growth innovators for a day packed with valuable ideas and inspiration to drive your organisation forward. 🎟️ Book now: https://lnkd.in/eAmzyaAF #EmergeDigital #IgniteGrowth #GlosGrowthForum