SME Services
Are you an SME looking for business development support?
Kirsty supports small businesses with services that broadly falls into three areas – Marketing, Event and Networking.
Networking Matters
‘Networking Matters’ is Kirsty’s mantra for the small business market she serves. This is reflected in the fact that her monthly networking newsletter and her founding home-town Warrington networking group both adopt this name.
Kirsty has invested over 20 years in building business relationships – nurturing commitment at all levels of the supply chain. Her interpersonal and communication skills broker new opportunities for clients, as well as staff.
Kirsty prides herself on being a growth enabler, connector of people and problem-solver by introducing people to the right contacts to solve their personal or business challenges.
Kirsty is well-connected and offers time-saving and supportive access to solutions, contacts and resources. If she doesn’t have the direct answer to your business challenges, she will know someone who does.
Championing business growth and innovation
Kirsty has helped hundreds of businesses to grow and problem-solve by providing ideas, learning environments and valuable connections.
Kirsty has promoted Warrington and Cheshire’s place on the regional and national business event map – attracting significant investment in new business and community support projects.
Constantly pursuing opportunities to innovate, Kirsty is an architect of novel concepts and a facilitator of business success stories.
Trading names and event brands associated with Kirsty since 2007 have included Colony Networking, Colony Women, Colony Wellbeing, Warrington Business Expo, KTS Women in Business, Cheshire International Women’s Day, Club90, Warrington Curry Club, SoupOnTheGo (community Crowdfunding events) and Think Family Matters (eSafety and mental health school events) – the latter two being social enterprises she still runs.
Kirsty is also the licensee and curator of TEDxWarrington and co-organiser of LinkedIn Local Warrington and Manchester – demonstrating an ability to bring new ideas that support business growth and development.
How Kirsty helps
Kirsty has helped hundreds of businesses, via marketing projects and events, to grow and problem-solve by providing ideas, learning environments and valuable connections. Kirsty is generous with her time, collaborative and innovative.
Whether managing teams of volunteers on community projects, planning commercial events with high-profile speakers and complex content, or designing and writing the content for a client’s marketing portfolio, Kirsty’s resourcefulness and consideration is evident – from strategic planning through to the fine detail.
Skilled in managing project and event teams, often comprising diverse personalities, skillsets and values, Kirsty is attentive to detail, time-efficient and diplomatic in her style of people management.
She champions business growth, supports ventures that pump investment into the local economy, and aligns her fierce loyalty to community with her core business values of collaboration and connection.
In the words of many who work with Kirsty, it is her strong moral leadership that differentiates and drives the business. She fosters a ‘pay it forward’ culture, fuelled by a desire to support the business and wider community.
