Business Masterclass Series

As technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, understanding and navigating the digital landscape becomes essential for all businesses – not exclusively those in tech. Our fourth edition of the Business Masterclass Series centres around changes currently happening in the world of digital business transformation. Our masterclass on Exploring the Digital Future features three guest speakers sharing their unique perspectives on how technology is shaping their industry and what lies ahead. We welcomed David Owen, CTO, Global Corporate Support Leader, Flight Centre Travel Group, Clare Jefferies, Managing Director, Home Instead Wimbledon and Kingston and Merton Best Award Winner and Marcos Moret, Managing Director, Moret Consulting. The event inspired a fascinating Q&A, so do stay listening right the way through to the end. For more information on future events visit lovewimbledon.org and mertonchamber.co.uk.

Wimbledon is the home of The Wombles, the original reusing and recycling heroes, so in the third edition of our Business Masterclass series we assembled some new environmental heroes, to discuss immediate but meaningful impacts businesses can make to improve their sustainability credentials.  Our Succeeding In Sustainability masterclass took place during Sustainable September with guest speakers Hattie Park, Sustainability Manager, The All England Lawn Tennis Club, Alex Woolf, Chief Operating Officer, Romulus and Alex Hughes, Founder, Auxilium Business Consulting. The event inspired a fascinating Q&A, so do stay listening right the way through to the end.   For more information on future events visit lovewimbledon.org and mertonchamber.co.uk. 

In the second edition of The Business Masterclass series, our subject was Building Workplace Wellbeing where we explored recruitment, retention and wellbeing to enable businesses to develop more effective plans to address these critical workplace concerns. Our guest speakers at this event were Dolina O'Neill, an HR Business Leader and Senior Consultant with Business Clan, Omar Qassim, Head of Employment Law at Peacock & Co Solicitors, and Tsz Wu, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Pink Squid, a multiple award-winning creative agency focused on employer brand. We were also joined by Katrina Hayes-Brown from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, or CIPD, the professional body for the HR sector. The event sparked lively discussions around wellbeing in the workplace, effective internal communication and how to achieve better business engagement across organisations.

The first ‘Managing Business in Uncertain Times’ masterclass provides different perspectives from world-class and local experts on how you can recession-proof your business. Our guest speakers for this episode are Michael Martin, Financial Journalist and Founder of Cannizaro Planning, Monica Hunter, an Executive Business Coach and Al Grljevic, Chief Operating Officer at Domestic & General. This is the first in a series of discussions around navigating economic uncertainty, recruitment, retention and wellbeing in the workplace, cybersecurity, and the future of workspaces.