Scale-Up Sessions

Welcome to Scale-Up Sessions, your roadmap to scaling your business. Joined by expert guests, Martin Kennington brings you the smartest, most up-to-date ways of making smart financial decisions to confidently take your business to the next level. Whether you’re chasing your next round of funding, a business loan, or simply building a smarter growth plan, this is your guide to scaling with confidence.

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  Sustainability as a business accelerator: Building resilience, relevance and long-term growth | Mark Shayler

  Sep 30, 202631 min

  Sustainability is not simply about compliance or reducing environmental impact. When it is embedded into innovation, business models and decision-making, it can help growing businesses become more resilient and commercially successful. In this episode of Scale-Up Sessions, we explore how scale-ups can move beyond superficial quick fixes and use sustainability to strengthen their business. From identifying where environmental impact overlaps with cost, risk and reputation to embedding sustainability into budgets and growth opportunities, we unpack how businesses can turn sustainability into a source of long-term competitive advantage. Joining us is Mark Shayler, CEO of Ape Sustainability and author of Do Disrupt and You Can’t Make Money From a Dead Planet . With 35 years of experience, Mark Shayler helps businesses move beyond short-term initiatives to develop more profitable, sustainable and regenerative models. ● Follow Martin Kennington on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinkennington/ ● Follow Mark Shayler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-shayler-778ab64/ Scale-Up Sessions is brought to you by Cynergy Bank. To learn more about Cynergy Bank, visit https://www.cynergybank.co.uk/ This episode was produced by Flamingo Media. If you want to create a chart-topping podcast visit www.flamingo-media.co.uk

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  How to build a business to sell: Creating value, resilience and exit optionality | Rachel Murphy

  Sep 16, 202625 min

  Scaling a business is not just about increasing revenue. If key relationships, decisions, processes and knowledge remain dependent on the founder, growth can make a business more fragile and ultimately more difficult to sell. In this episode of Scale-Up Sessions, we explore what it takes to build a business that is valuable, transferable and ready for an eventual exit. From reducing founder dependency and documenting the way the business operates to creating a data room and understanding potential buyers, we unpack how founders can build resilience today while creating more options for the future. Joining us is Rachel Murphy, founder of The Grafter, an advisory firm supporting leaders as they scale, raise investment and exit their businesses. Her 25-year career has included turnaround and transformation work across the public and private sectors, as well as leading the launch of the NHS App. She has also built and sold two companies and is now building her third. ● Follow Martin Kennington on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinkennington/ ● Follow Rachel Murphy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachthegrafter/ Scale-Up Sessions is brought to you by Cynergy Bank. To learn more about Cynergy Bank, visit https://www.cynergybank.co.uk/ This episode was produced by Flamingo Media. If you want to create a chart-topping podcast visit www.flamingo-media.co.uk

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  How to build cyber resilience and protect your business from cyber attacks | Jenny Pirault

  Sep 2, 202624 min

  Cyber attacks are an increasing risk for growing businesses, but protecting your organisation isn't simply an IT responsibility. Cyber resilience means being able to prepare for, respond to and recover from incidents while keeping your business running and maintaining customer trust. In this episode of Scale-Up Sessions, we explore how growing businesses can build cyber resilience, prepare for the critical first hours of an incident, manage third-party risk and respond effectively when things go wrong. Joining us is Jenny Pirault, Cyber Risk and Resilience Manager at Sodali & Co. Jenny works with organisations and leadership teams to prepare for cyber incidents, strengthen resilience and recover from disruption. Jenny shares practical insights, including: Why cyber resilience needs to be built into business strategy as an organisation grows, including procurement, contracts, suppliers, technology and critical business processes. How to prepare for a cyber incident before it happens, from establishing strong cyber hygiene and identifying your business's “crown jewels” to mapping third-party dependencies and testing an incident response plan. How AI is changing the cyber threat landscape, including the rise of “shadow AI”, increasingly sophisticated attacks and the need for businesses to combine AI governance with employee education and AI literacy. ● Follow Martin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinkennington/ ● Follow Jenny on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jennypiraultcv Scale-Up Sessions is brought to you by Cynergy Bank. To learn more about Cynergy Bank, visit https://www.cynergybank.co.uk/ This episode was produced by Flamingo Media. If you want to create a chart-topping podcast visit www.flamingo-media.co.uk

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  How to use AI to scale your business: Creating real value beyond the hype | Yinka Fasawe, Google Cloud

  Jul 22, 202622 min

  AI is transforming the way businesses operate, but simply adopting more AI tools doesn't automatically create more value. The real opportunity lies in knowing where AI can genuinely improve the way your business works. In this episode of Scale-Up Sessions, we explore how growing businesses can move beyond AI experimentation and start using it to create real commercial advantage. From identifying the right use cases to redesigning workflows and avoiding unnecessary complexity, we unpack what it really takes to use AI as a lever for sustainable growth. Joining us is Yinka Fasawe, AI Go-To-Market Lead for FSI capital markets at Google Cloud for the UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa. Yinka works with organisations to help them adopt AI strategically, enabling businesses to move beyond the hype and focus on where AI can improve productivity, decision-making and long-term competitiveness. Yinka shares practical insights, including: Why the businesses seeing the greatest return from AI aren't simply adopting more tools, they're rethinking how work gets done. How to identify the business processes where AI can create the greatest value, rather than automating for automation's sake. Why successful AI adoption is ultimately a leadership challenge, and how businesses can build the right culture, governance and mindset to turn AI into a genuine competitive advantage. ● Follow Martin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinkennington/ ● Follow Yinka on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yinkafasawe/ Scale-Up Sessions is brought to you by Cynergy Bank. To learn more about Cynergy Bank, visit https://www.cynergybank.co.uk/ This episode was produced by Flamingo Media. If you want to create a chart-topping podcast visit www.flamingo-media.co.uk

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  How to turn visibility into sales: Why meaningful relationships are the key to driving business growth | Molly Ruland

  Jul 8, 202633 min

  Growing a business isn't just about getting more attention. It's about making sure the right people find you, trust you, and know exactly how to buy from you. In this episode of Scale-Up Sessions, we explore how founders can turn visibility into sustainable growth. From building meaningful relationships and creating a clear market position, to systemising sales and reducing founder dependency, we unpack what it really takes to build a business that can scale. Joining us is Molly Ruland, Founder of Heartcast Media. Molly has spent more than two decades building businesses rooted in art, music, culture and community. Today, she helps founders and business leaders use strategic visibility and podcasting to build meaningful relationships that translate into long-term business growth. Her philosophy is simple: the strongest opportunities come from having better conversations. Molly shares practical lessons from building and scaling her own business, including: Why not everyone is your customer, and how focusing on the right audience creates stronger growth than chasing vanity metrics How to turn visibility into predictable revenue by creating a clear offer and building repeatable sales systems Why the most valuable businesses are designed to operate without constant founder involvement, and how to start reducing dependency on yourself as the business grows ● Follow Martin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinkennington/ ● Follow Molly on the channels below: https://mollyruland.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/heartcastmedia Scale-Up Sessions is brought to you by Cynergy Bank. To learn more about Cynergy Bank, visit https://www.cynergybank.co.uk/ This episode was produced by Flamingo Media. If you want to create a chart-topping podcast visit www.flamingo-media.co.uk

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