Maryanne Johnston
Effective Spoken Communication
I recently worked with TalentSpark, the Start-Up Recruitment Specialists in Scotland, to produce a short guide to pitching. I hope that you find it interesting! You can read more from TalentSpark.
I am delighted to be involved with a series of free workshops aimed at boosting business skills in the North of Scotland. Highlands and Islands Entrepreneurial Academy will be running workshops on skills such as Sales, Branding, Digital Media. The programme is aimed at early-stage or young entrepreneurial companies, or social enterprises with growth […]
I was thrilled to be involved in training this year’s Converge Challenge Top 30. Launched in 2011, Converge Challenge is a high-profile company creation competition and entrepreneurship development programme for staff, students and recent graduates of Scottish universities and research institutes. Last week, the best of the best Top 30 came together to showcase their […]
Do you find yourself considering whether it’s time to climb the career ladder or look for a new job? Perhaps you are thinking of ways to bring in new clients or want to get out there and pitch your business to new investors or at a funding competition? We constantly promise ourselves we’ll eat healthier, […]
I am delighted to be working with Informatics Ventures again this month to prepare the companies participating in EIE18 for their elevator pitches. February saw 8 intensive, interactive workshops where I worked with the 60 companies who will be pitching for seed to series A funding at the final investor showcase on 19th April. The […]
CivTech® 2.0 from the Scottish Government’s Digital Directorate launched in May 2017 with a series of Public Sector Challenges ranging from remote visitor monitoring at historic sites to outpatient re-design and a unique system to combat bird of prey persecution. Nine new Scottish companies presented their products and services to solve these real-world problems. […]
My warmest congratulations go to Dianne Teo of T30 Fitness Training and Jack Ng of Sansible Wearables on their success at the Scottish EDGE final last week. Their outstanding pitches won them £50k each to expand on their business plans! I have worked closely with Dianne and Jack over the past few weeks and months […]
Many congratulations to the successful APC candidates who I worked within the Autumn! I was delighted to hear of the five candidates’ success, four from Galbraith and one from Bell Ingram. Both firms maintain an excellent pass rate. I ran a half-day session with them where we worked on delivery and handling questions. The […]
Highlands and Islands Enterprise is sponsoring 4 places on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Entrepreneur Development Programme in January 2018, a week-long, high level, intensive executive education course teaching skills for high impact entrepreneurship held in Boston. I have been working with the 4 HIE sponsored companies who applied for the programme. My involvement has mainly […]
I was delighted to lead a session this week at Making IT Work For Women. The event, presented by Informatics Ventures and Women’s Enterprise Scotland, was the inaugural annual summit on female participation and thought leadership in the fast-growing tech industry. Making IT Work For Women aims to inspire and stimulate discussion, address some of the issues […]
Huge congratulations go to Dave Hughes, founder and CTO of Novosound on winning Converge Challenge 2017! Dave was presented with his prize, which includes £50,000 cash and £28,500 worth of business support, by Scotland’s First Minister at the Converge Challenge Awards Dinner in Glasgow. Novosound aims to revolutionise the ultrasound industry by developing systems that […]
“A champion is not made when they succeed; a champion is made when you look back at the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months they have spent preparing.” Eluid Kipchoge – Kenyan long-distance runner and 2016 Olympic marathon gold medallist. The levels of sporting success enjoyed by elite athletes like Andy Murray, Paula […]
