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Join our fully interactive Q&A sessions hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

Katy pioneered social media marketing, launching her social media agency, immediate future, 15 years ago, just as Facebook made its way onto university campus.

Often called in as the UK expert on social by TV, Radio and the press, she appears regularly on BBC news, Victoria Derbyshire, and Reuters, as well in The Telegraph, FT and Guardian. She’s considered the 4th most influential social media marketing expert, named one of the 25 women who have made an outstanding contribution to digital by the Drum, and was honoured to be amongst the Top 100 Asian tech entrepreneurs in the UK.

She speaks at conferences, runs masterclasses, and guest lectures at two universities. She’s co-authored 3 books on social and is a regular contributor to the press.

Her expertise lies in helping brands deliver significant impact by breaking the social boring: using social data to springboard creative that delivers growth to businesses. Her agency works with brands including; lastminute.com, Princess Cruises, Selfridges, Mission Foods, Google, Diageo, JD Williams, Fujitsu, Sony Music, and many more. They win industry awards every year for their smarts and innovation in social media.

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Eriona is Chartered Certified Accountant, has Masters’ degrees in both Accounting & Finance and International Banking & Finance Law and has recently completed a PGDip in Financial Strategy from the University of Oxford. Eriona is a member of the ACCA UK Practitioners Network Panel, ACCA SME Global Forum, has been involved with the International Federation of Accountants Chief Executives Forum. Eriona has also been nominated for three awards for the Women in Accounting and Finance Awards 2020. Having worked in practice since she was 13, then taking over Major's Accounts, Eriona has implemented a digitisation strategy within the business which has made a huge impact on the practice and clients’ businesses; turning an established traditional practice into a digital one utilising technology to bring the accountant-client relationship much closer. Major’s Accounts is now focusing on providing advisory services to its clients, including business finance. Major’s Accounts has been nominated for Independent Firm of the Year, Greater London by the British Accountancy Awards.

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Sean Goldsmith is a Special Advisor to Franchisors and large corporates and has a long history of success in the industry. He is currently heading up a mastermind of close on 350 franchise networks and is actively helping them solve the serious problems created by COVID-19.

He is a mentor to franchisors, a coach and a Non-Exec who is currently offering critical strategic planning services to both the Franchise and Non Franchise Industry. Sean is also involved in the development of Social Franchising by helping good causes expand through the principles of franchise success.

Join our fully interactive Q&A sessions hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

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Esther Stanhope is an International speaker, award winning author and personal impact expert. As a former “Live” BBC producer and now a successful business speaker, she can up your game in pitches, presentations and remote meetings instantly!  She has a tip for any communication related question on; personal brand, pitching, speaking with gravitas, selling yourself or positioning yourself as the expert. From having a richer voice to knowing when to pause and where to look on a VC call, Esther can help! She uses her broadcasting background and simple audience engagement techniques in boardrooms all over the world (Deloitte, JPMorgan, Barclays).  Now we’re WFH (working from home) Esther is the perfect solution to help you ace remote meetings on Zoom, Webex, Teams or any other VC platform.

Join our fully interactive Q&A sessions hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

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Join our fully interactive Q&A sessions hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

Judith work’s with owner managed businesses across the North West and her clients range in size and complexities from new start ups to established and growing businesses across a multitude of sectors. She heads up the Digital Solutions team at MHA Moore and Smalley which is a dedicated team of people who help business owners improve their inhouse financial reporting function and bookkeeping efficiency, as well as providing proactive support to help those businesses grow profitably. The Digital Solutions team provide set-up, training and support on cloud accounting software and business improvement apps as well as ongoing advisory services. The practice is an Elite Intuit Quickbooks partner.

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Gary Stewart is the CEO and co-founder of “The Nest”, which is “Masterclass for founders”. From 2014-2019, Gary was the Director of Wayra UK, a corporate accelerator backed by Telefonica (O2). He invested in 185 start-ups that raised $265m and were valued at more than $1bn. Gary is a serial entrepreneur (with an exit) and a former associate professor at entrepreneurship at IE Business School in Madrid. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Gary worked as a lawyer in NY, London, Madrid and Barcelona. He graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Yale College and was the executive editor of The Yale Law Journal at Yale Law School. He is a Governor of the University of East London and has been twice on the Power List of the most influential black people in the UK.

Join our fully interactive Q&A sessions hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the months ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

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Join Carls community: www.carlreader.com/qb  The world’s largest workforce works for themselves. We work for them by providing smarter business tools. QuickBooks is always backing you. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/ 

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Johann Goree CMgr FCMI MIAB - A Chartered Manager and the Managing Director of JGBC who specialise in supporting small businesses as they start their business and undertake their journey utilising cloud software to give them live data to steer their businesses with.

Johann is a QuickBooks Advanced Certified Pro Adviser who with his team has deciphered the news and read gov.uk in order to translate it all into plain English and applying it to each client’s situation.

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Join our fully interactive Q&A sessions hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the weeks ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

Michelle is a Certified International Health Coach (CIHC), an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach (INHC) and Mental Health First Aider. Michelle works with individuals and companies to help them understand their health and happiness goals (e.g. healthy diet, weight loss, reducing stress, increasing exercise, better quality of sleep, improved relationships and exciting careers), and then support them as they put in place the habits to achieve and sustain them through 1-2-1 health coaching sessions, group meet-ups, presentations, workshops and company health & well-being programmes.

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The world’s largest workforce works for themselves. We work for them by providing smarter business tools. QuickBooks is always backing you. https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/ 

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Join our fully interactive Q&A sessions hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the weeks ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

Judith work’s with owner managed businesses across the North West and her clients range in size and complexities from new start ups to established and growing businesses across a multitude of sectors. She heads up the Digital Solutions team at MHA Moore and Smalley which is a dedicated team of people who help business owners improve their inhouse financial reporting function and bookkeeping efficiency, as well as providing proactive support to help those businesses grow profitably. The Digital Solutions team provide set-up, training and support on cloud accounting software and business improvement apps as well as ongoing advisory services. The practice is an Elite Intuit Quickbooks partner.

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Join our fully interactive Q&A sessions hosted by a different business expert every day. Pick up valuable tips and advice and discover practical positive steps you can take in the weeks ahead. You ask all the questions — add yours in the comments section of YouTube or Facebook or use the #QBATE hashtag on Twitter.

Freddie founded Stag Coffee, situated in the heart of Ashford Town Centre. Previously serving regular customers their daily coffee fix, the Covid-19 situation highlighted food shortages for the vulnerable. Freddie pivoted his business and converted it into an online grocery store. The service escalated quickly to serving 40 homes in the local area daily, with the unexpected growth adding resources to the workforce and branching out into offering pre-prepared home made meals.

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