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Posted: Tue 14th Apr 2026
As a small business founder, you don't need more abstract advice. You need useful ideas you can apply right away, with the tools you already have.
That's the thinking behind Design Your Growth Week, a new campaign from Enterprise Nation and Canva for small business owners who want to build a clearer brand, create better marketing and show up more consistently.
Across a week of free events and content, the focus is on the part many founders have to figure out while running everything else – how to make the business look as good as the work behind it.
The programme includes five free lunchtime webinars and an in-person event in London, hosted by Martha Keith and featuring founders and experts from across branding, marketing and AI.
Everyone who signs up will also get three months of Canva Pro.
The in-person launch event, Design your growth, takes place in London on 8 May 2026.
The session includes:
a branding and imagery workshop
a conversation on community and brand-building, a social media and marketing session with Natalia Kalinska
founder stories from Ocushield, BEAME and Candid Studios
networking and professional headshots from Candid Studios
Rob Boliver will cover value proposition, founder story, niche and how to use Canva Whiteboards to shape ideas into a clearer brand identity.
Next is Build a magnetic brand (12 May), where Sydney Sam looks at the visual assets founders actually need, from templates and imagery to logos, colours and fonts, with practical ways to create polished brand content in Canva.
Midweek, Martha Keith hosts From assets to impact (13 May), focused on building joined-up campaigns across social and email, with a simple framework for creating work that grabs attention and feels consistent across channels.
Then comes The founder marketing stack (14 May), led by Tara Elzingre. This session looks at how solo founders can use AI and Canva to repurpose content, build repeatable systems and save time on weekly marketing.
The final session, Bootstrapped but beautiful (15 May), is a fireside chat with Areej AbuAli and Freddie Chatt on founder-led marketing, stronger digital touchpoints and turning brand trust into conversions and sales.
Whether you want to tighten up your brand, improve your marketing or pick up a few practical ideas you can use straight away, Design Your Growth Week offers a useful seven days of support.
