CEO, founder

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Ceylan Boyce is the founder of Academy for Women Entrepreneurs, a platform of community, training and coaching for female solopreneurs and microbusiness owners. With more than 15 years of expereince in consultancy, marketing and entrepreneurship.

AWE provides women entrepreneurs with support, collaboration opportunties, award-winning training and more to help create a strong and sustainable business that gives them freedom of choice and allows them to lead fulfilled lives.

Watch back this recorded webinar to hear Ceylan discuss her journey and how she accelerated her growth as a female entrepreneur.

Watch back this recorded webinar to hear about how Ceylan Boyce accelerated her growth as a female entrepreneur

Webinar

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&lt;p&gt;Hi, I'm Ceylan (call me&amp;nbsp;"J"). I'm on a mission to empower female entrepreneurs to build and grow fulfilling businesses that help them achieve&amp;nbsp;their financial and life goals while living enjoyable lives. I do this by developing their business acumen, strategic mindsets and entrepreneurial skills.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am a strategist and marketing expert who spent 15 years resolving corporate companies’ issues. Then I decided to put my know-how at the service of SMEs and more specifically female entrepreneurs.&amp;nbsp;I like to call myself an entrepreneurship coach and business strategist.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As the co-founder and CEO of Academy for Women Entrepreneurs or 'AWE' (https://academyforwomenentrepreneurs.com/) I'm building a comprehensive network of like-minded female small business owners to help them dare, lead and change - all supported our award-winning&amp;nbsp;business training, coaching and collaboration opportunities.&lt;br /&gt;
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Female entrepreneurs are key drivers for innovation, productivity, growth, employment and social progress. Women business owners can, and want to change the world for the better and I want to help them to bring about that change.&lt;br /&gt;
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So if you want to join a community of AWEsome female founders&amp;nbsp;please connect, PM me and say hi!&lt;br /&gt;
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Ceylan x&lt;/p&gt;

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Lunch and Learn: Accelerating growth as a female entrepreneur

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&lt;p&gt;Hi. We’re 24 fingers, an award-winning digital marketing agency.&amp;nbsp;We help small business owners&amp;nbsp;who are all fingers &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;thumbs with their&amp;nbsp;marketing to grow their brand. Founder Emma Goode is the&amp;nbsp;proud Local Leader for Enterprise Nation in Essex.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Whether it’s getting more leads from social, increasing brand awareness or engaging with your customers, our fingers can help add extra digits to your bottom line.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We work with start-ups and companies both big and small, as well as individuals who need a helping hand navigating the ever-changing world of social media. We know how difficult it can be for businesses to keep up with all the algorithm updates.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Coming from a copywriting and publishing background, our expert team of content creators also know just how powerful great content can be. Just ask the 26 million people who saw our ‘Nostalgia’ campaign for one of our clients. That was achieved without spending a penny on paid advertising too. Powerful stuff, eh?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Whether you need an SEO strategy,&amp;nbsp;help with social media management, advice on what to blog about,&amp;nbsp;how to get more sales from social, or you fancy coming along to one of our practical social media training workshops, our hands are here to support you and your business, whatever stage you’re at.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Click here to book your&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://calendly.com/24fingers"&gt;free Strategy Session&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

Managing Director

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Via Aspire MCL, the company I formed in 2012, I empower leaders, teams and businesses to thrive in an ever more demanding and changing world by using coaching, mentoring, training and psychometric/behavioural assessments to help clients build a sustainable source of competitive advantage, and to enjoy doing so!

I have a track record of success in a wide range of sectors and with organisations of diverse cultures. My focus is very much on practical application to help you realise opportunities and address challenges: make more sales, reduce unhealthy conflict, manage important stakeholders, align and motivate your teams and organisation, achieve clarity of purpose, drive change programmes, etc.

A former senior RAF officer, I have held roles that included interim director, senior trustee, enterprise architect, consultant/coach and course designer/lead instructor. Activities included BD, change programme leadership, commissioning consultants, senior stakeholder management, key position recruitment, etc.

I am a full member of the Institute of Directors and the Leaders' Club and have a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management.
Other qualifications include:
- BSc (Open University) – General Sciences and Astronomy/Astrobiology
- Programme Management – MSP
- Project Management – PRINCE 2 (Practitioner), APM Certificate
- Certified Facilitator – Belbin, DiSC, ‘5 Behaviours’ and SDI 2.0
- Business Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Certificates in Consultancy and Business Analysis
- Certificate in Cyber Security Essentials (GCHQ/Open University)
- Certificate in Systems Thinking and Complexity
- A1-Rated Executive Battle Management Instructor and Evaluator (RAF)
- NATO TACEVAL Evaluator (Combat Readiness Assessor for Front-Line NATO Units)
- Mountain and Ski-Tour Leader (Military)

Outside of work, I enjoy keeping fit, playing golf (badly!), reading and local church activities.?

For more information and recommendations, please see Aspire MCL's website and my LinkedIn Profile:
https://www.aspiremcl.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iankirkby

Owner @ Aspire Management Consultancy Ltd

Effective Leadership

This group will cover the key principles for effective leadership and provide guidance on how to enhance leadership competencies.

We offer flexible outsourced HR services, delivered onsite or remotely.   As little or as much HR as you need, when you need it. As a small business ourselves, we understand the unique challenges you face.
Our services include:
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<li>Appraisals, performance reviews &amp; development.</li>
<li>HR documentation.</li>
<li>Disciplinaries Employment law advice Recruitment Redundancies Settlement agreements</li>
<li>Sickness and absence management.</li>
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Whether you have a one off project, would like regular assistance or just want to call us on a ad-hoc basis, we have a cost effective solution for you either on a retained or pay as you go service.
Each of our clients are treated individually and our services can be adapted to suit your specific needs and requirements. We work with companies who employ just one member of staff to several hundred employees.

MD and Founder

Performance appraisals

We help you get the best from your team by creating simple and straightforward appraisal and review plans which feed into your business strategy.

Staff performance planning is not only good for morale, but can benefit your bottom line if your staff are performing to the best of their ability. Many managers dread appraisals but, with our help, they do not have to be a time consuming, form filling exercise.
They are also an integral part of many regulatory body requirements such as CQC and IFA.

Hi, I&apos;m Clara and I want to help your business thrive!
Having set up my own app business, I know all about the excitement, challenges and opportunities that come with starting your own business.
10 years + years of marketing experience has equipped me to know precisely what works and what doesn’t when scaling a business – my expertise in CRM &amp; Email Marketing, Retention and defining Marketing Strategies has served prominent and successful businesses such as Expedia (Hotels.com), Monsoon Accessorize and MoneySupermarket. Broader digital knowledge and expertise including social media platforms are also skills I bring to the table!
Having helped several businesses achieve growth, delivering an uplift of +29% in revenue vs forecast and improving platform efficiency by 70%.
But don’t take my word for it! Here are some testimonials from recent clients:
“I really appreciate the actionable insight and clear advice that Clara gave to help us develop our marketing plan. Even though we only had a time limited mentoring session, I felt that Clara went above and beyond to obtain a good understanding of our business and where we were at, to provide meaningful guidance that we could apply immediately. Clara was also very friendly and approachable and just a great person to talk to!”
Amanda, Founder @ Curobe
“You really helped me to understand how I could add value in places very quickly without needing much time or money - both things of which I am short of.”
The amount of research and time you spent understanding my brand and competitors, as well as potential competitors that I hadn&apos;t heard of was amazing. It meant that you really understood the product and all of the information was extremely relevant in some way or the other.
Everything was explained in layman&apos;s terms and was really easy to understand. You broke down the information really well and structured it perfectly.”
Danielle, Founder @ Not Just Nibbles
If you are a small business and want to achieve growth but not sure where to start, get in touch for a free advisory call and start growing your business today.

Clara Toombs

Hi, I&apos;m Clara and I want to help your business thrive!
Having set up my own app business, I know all about the excitement, challenges and opportunities that come with starting your own business.
10 years + years of marketing experience has equipped me to know precisely what works and what doesn’t when scaling a business – my expertise in CRM &amp; Email Marketing, Retention and defining Marketing Strategies has served prominent and successful businesses such as Expedia (Hot

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