Ambitions 2025 Programme - Thrive in '25
27 Mar 2025 - 25 Apr 2025
- Online
- Support
Are you a leader of an impact-led business with the ambition to enhance your skills and scale your business and impact? Our flagship support programme, Ambitions 2025: Supporting Leaders, Building Growth kindly supported by the Postcode Innovation Trust, is back to help you thrive in 2025.
Our key leadership programme is back
• Online
• Peer to peer
• 121 support
• Expert programme facilitators
Following the success of previous years' Ambitions 2025: Supporting Leaders, Building Growth, our specifically tailored leadership programme, is now accepting applications for its cohorts (starting Thursday, 8 and Friday, 9 May).
The Ambitions 2025 programme is made up of two cohorts - Step Up and Scale Up. From feedback and working with leaders over a number of years we recognised there was a need to create two spaces which reach more established Scottish organisations and those organisations at an earlier stage of their journey – but that are by no means less ambitious!
This year, our core programme will support 'you' in focusing on leading business strategy while reviewing and stepping back from some of the more operational tasks.
Our sessions will deliver a range of core learning topics and live challenges and opportunities coming from our weekly group discussions, led by programme facilitator and SIS Associate, Rachael Arnold and supported by your peers in the room. Topics will include understanding your customers and establishing key insights, storytelling and your impact, and having the right people around you.
Rachael will be joined by
Chloe Cannon – If you have the aspiration to increase your trading, Chloe will lead commercial conversations, helping to de-mystify the process and build your confidence in approaching buyers, ‘selling’, and using language that will help you open new and the right doors.
Ellis Beardsmore – How often do you keep going with the endless ‘to-do’ list and hit double-digit working hour days? Eventually, you will reach burnout. Ellis will spend time focusing on ‘you as a priority’, balancing both your workload and health and wellbeing, alongside that of your team.
The Ambitions Programme involves weekly 90-minute sessions from Thursday, 8 May (Scale Up) and Friday, 9 May (Step Up) and will run for 16 weeks (with breaks for some key holidays).
I absolutely love the course. I had no idea what to expect when I applied, but it exceeded my expectations. I am recommending it to everyone. It's a bit humbling because I didn't realise how much I didn't know, but I am learning so much and it's very exciting. Rachael, you are amazing. Thank you all for your work.”
Member of the cohort
Ambitions 2024 Programme
- Be ready for open conversations.
- Be ready to be challenged.
- Be ready for change.
- Be ready to absorb the knowledge and experience shared in the room.
- Get ready to come up with the solutions and identify the next steps that will take you, your team and your business to achieve your business goals!
Apply today!
Applications are open now and until midnight on Friday, 25 April, 2025
