Ask The Expert

Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Ketan Makwana to get advice on how to become the best version of yourself to succeed in life and business.

Business strategist and all-round disruptor Ketan has been working on business growth and strategic management for over 20 years. Ketan founded Enterprise Lab in 2011 as a response to the emerging skills gap in enterprise and industry; the agency has gone on to now operate programming in 26 countries and won numerous awards for its cutting edge approach and results.

Ketan has expertise within the IT, Electronics and Healthcare Industry where he has developed and delivered strategies that have positively impacted the industry. After losing his job in 2009 to the economic crash, he went on to build his first business, an outsourcing agency which he went onto sell to a major recruitment firm within 18 months.

Ketan is passionate about people and processes; he thoroughly enjoys building strategies for growth and taking people through a journey of self-development. His work has been delivered through advising, consulting, mentoring and training - having served all levels of the enterprise eco-system.

Ketan continues his mission to impact and disrupt economies for prosperity through building expert networks, investing in fast-growth businesses and inspiring leaders to strive for growth through innovation and disruption.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are 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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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Judith Dugdale to learn how to maximise the value of your business.

Judith works with owner-managed businesses across the North West and her clients range in size and complexities from new startups to established and growing businesses across a multitude of sectors.

She heads 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 provides 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.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are 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.

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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Chris Eastwood to get top tips for your pension.

Chris is a qualified accountant, starting his career at Deloitte where he worked with many financial institutions in M&A and advisory roles. He then spent several years at investment firm Man Group in a senior strategy role. At Penfold he is responsible for Product and shares CEO responsibilities with Co-Founder Pete.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are 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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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Eriona Bajrakurtaj to learn how to grow your business using the cloud.

Eriona is a 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.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are 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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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with KatyHowell to learn how you can supercharge your social media to grow your business or personal brand.

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.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are 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.

#QuickBooks 

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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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Tommie Eaton & Rebecca Dudbridge to know how you can change the world with your business.

Tommie and Rebecca are the co-founders of Bambuu Brush, a purpose-driven company whose mission is to educate, inspire and empower people across the world. They use their purposeful products that create purposeful impacts on the planet and people by eradicating low-grade, single-use plastics. After meeting in Sydney, Tommie and Rebecca were inspired to start Bambuu Brush after seeing the huge amounts of plastic pollution across beaches all over the world with the mindset that we have a chance to make a significant impact on plastic production if we work together. Since then, they launched and achieved their #1millionby2020​ campaign to educate and inspire 1million people to swap away from their "normal" plastic toothbrush to their environmentally friendly and sustainable @BambuuBrush, have a partnership with Virgin Airline, organised community clean-ups across the world and have just launched their new and expanded product range of reusable utensils.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are 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.

#QuickBooks 

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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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Ellie Austin-Williams to get advice on how to find financial wellbeing.

Bored of the same old financial information written by middle-aged rich men, Ellie founded This Girl Talks Money in 2019 to tackle the last taboo: money. Following her professional training as a solicitor, Ellie became disillusioned with the lack of accessible and up-to-date financial know-how aimed at adults in their twenties and thirties. Ellie set up a blog to solve the problem and started posting on what is now, 18 months later, a financial education and coaching platform.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are 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.

#QuickBooks 

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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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Glenn Collins to get advice on how to minimise your finance worries.

Glenn Collins FCCA is Head of Technical Advisory and Policy at ACCA. He is responsible for advice and support to ACCA members on a range of issues, including audit, financial reporting, business and credit advice, taxation, company and business law, ethics, export and access to finance.

A Fellow of ACCA, Glenn Collins spent 16 years in public practice, specialising in audit and business advice, before joining ACCA where he has worked for over 20 years.Alongside providing advice to finance professionals, Glenn Collins also liaises closely with UK government departments, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs, BEIS, Department for International trade and also agencies like the Charity Commission and Pensions Regulator. He also leads ACCA’s support for small and medium practitioners and is a member of numerous small business, tax and charity groups.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are 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.

#QuickBooks​ 

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/​ 

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ycNB3g​ 

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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Johann Goree to get advice on how to grow your business or startup.

Johann Goree CMgr FCMI - A Chartered Manager and the Managing Director of OnPoint Accounting Group who help accountants and bookkeepers maximise the value in their business now, and when they decide to exit their business.

Johann is a QuickBooks Advanced Certified Pro Advisor and works with the firms in the OnPoint Accounting Group to digitalise and automate their workflows allowing more time to be spent working with business owners helping them achieve their goals.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are 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.

#QuickBooks​ 

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Catch our live Ask The Expert Q&A session with Lee McQueen to get advice on how to recruit staff without bias.

Lee is the Founder and CEO of Phoenix51, a powerful employee technology which enables organisations to make data-driven decisions through every stage of the employee journey. Lee has 19 years of experience in talent acquisition, including in the assessment and competency framework space, he has a genuine passion for helping organisations to select future talent. Underpinned by a core understanding of the importance of talent analytics, Lee is firm in his belief that a data-driven approach will define the next epoch in talent assessment.

Our fully interactive Q&A sessions are 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.

#QuickBooks​ 

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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