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The Future Positive Podcast - Join Kirsty McGregor (The CFN) and Alex Clark (Capitalise) as they talk to accounting industry professionals about the key trends, news and insights that are affecting businesses and the wider industry.
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Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, powered by Capitalise.
For this special episode of the podcast I turn the tables on our very own accountant in resident and founder of the CFN - Kirsty McGregor to talk about her recent award win at the Digital Accountancy Forum. We talk about the past, present and future and find out just what the award means to her!
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
You can watch the video version of this episode here: https://vimeo.com/643444749
For those new to Capitalise - we are a funding and capital platform designed to support accountants to build healthy balance sheets and relationships with their SME clients. For more check out www.capitalise.com.
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil recap their favourite moments of Season 2 of the Future Positive Community.
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.com
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Edward Revell - SME Lending and Credit Lead for digital challenger bank - Starling.
Edward has been with Starling since June 2020 and currently heads up SME Lending, Credit Strategy team for the bank. Previous to Starling he’s worked for over 10 years in various roles within some of the UK’s biggest banks and SME lenders including Barclays and Lloyds. Starling as a bank recently toped the 2021 business banking survey by CMA and has consistently been rewarded and acknowledged for its service across both business and personal banking.
You can find out more about Ed and Starling Bank check out www.starlingbank.com
Watch the podcast video here: https://vimeo.com/589909592/f35ab668cf
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
For more on Capitalise visit: www.capitalise.com
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Liz Barclay - the newly appointed UK Small Business Commissioner (and first ever female appointment to the role). Previously to taking up this position she was a small business and consumer affairs broadcaster, producer and writer. She started her career as an adviser and then CEO with Citizens Advice before moving into radio and TV - specialising in business and consumer affairs. If that wasn't impressive enough… she is the Financial Inclusion Commissioner as well as Chair of the BSI Consumer Forum and the Fair by Design Campaign. Finally she is also an Ambassador for the Money Advice Trust and Business Debtline.
You can find out more about Liz and the Small Business Commission here: http://www.smallbusinesscommissioner.gov.uk
Watch the podcast video here: https://vimeo.com/580299882/29175f7d13
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
For more on Capitalise visit: www.capitalise.com
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Andy Chamberlain. Andy is the Director of Policy at IPSE - the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed who he’s worked with for over 10 years. He is responsible for IPSE tax policy and has a special expertise in labour market changes, employment status and IR35, as well as their lead spokesperson on a range of policy issue and he recently gave evidence to the Lords’ Finance Bill Sub-Committee on the proposed rollout of IR35 to the private sector.
You can find out more about Andy and the IPSE at www.ipse.co.uk
Watch the podcast video here: https://vimeo.com/577535803/e00c0865a7
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
For more on Capitalise visit: www.capitalise.com
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Alex Falcon Huerta . Alex is the founder of Soaring Falcon Accountancy Specialising in advising small businesses around the world often with UK subsidiaries or UK businesses wanting to expand overseas, so naturally she was an early adopter of cloud accounting & tech. She is a Xero MVP as well as winning a multitude of industry awards.
She is an Advisor to the UK government’s All Party Parliamentary Group, sitting on the technology board & and a member of ACCA's international assembly.
And…the coolest thing os that 6 yrs after starting her firm, as some of her team members were in Phillipines & Indonesia, she decided she wanted to be closer to them & so she became a digital nomad & based herself in Bali! She now supports others looking to operate their firm overseas as part of the community The Startup Practice.
You can find out more about Alex and Soaring Falcon by visiting soaring-falcon.co.uk
Watch the podcast video here: https://vimeo.com/572491577/95abccee0e
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Emma Jones CBE. Emma trained as an accountant with Arthur Andersen, and that's a name from the past! and founded her own business Techlocate.com in 2000 during the dotcom boom - so she's been on both sides of the professional relationship - as an adviser and also as a business owner. She sold that business and took her experiences from that to develop Enterprise Nation - which now boasts a community of over 75,000 people
Emma is ow considered to be one of UK's most recognised business experts, as well as being a best-selling author of business books such as ‘Working 5 to 9’ and ‘The StartUp Kit’
She has also been asked by various governments to work alongside them in several roles including the Small Business Representative for the Crown and leading the private sector campaign Start-up Britain, plus she was asked to co-chair the Small Business, Scale-up and Entrepreneurs Business Council.
You can find out more about Emma and Enterprise Nation visit enterprisenation.com as well as on Linkedin and Twitter.
Watch the podcast video here: https://vimeo.com/569390712/210a2f7410
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Kate Nicholls OBE. Kate was appointed CEO of UKHospitality, the powerful voice representing the broad hospitality sector, in April 2018, having previously worked as CEO and Strategic Affairs Director of the ALMR. She was Director at one of the largest independent public affairs companies, working with a number of hospitality, retail and leisure accounts before establishing her own strategic communications consultancy in 2000. In 2021 she was awarded an OBE for services to the hospitality industry, particularly during the Coronavirus pandemic.
You can find out more about Kate and UKHospitality visit ukhospitality.org.uk
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
You can watch the video version of this episode here: https://vimeo.com/574911583
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Della Hudson. Della a chartered accountant, a business owner and founder of two accountancy firms, a bestselling business author, public speaker, mentor & business coach with other 30 years experience in the industry.
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
You can find out more about Della at hudsonbusiness.co.uk as well as on Linkedin and Twitter.
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
You can watch the video version of this episode here: https://vimeo.com/566618105
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Kate Upcraft. Kate is a technical writer, editor, public speaker and lecturer on all aspects of employing people - primarily payroll and HR matters. Prior to setting up her own company in 2005, she was the payroll legislation manager at M&S, where she worked for 20 years, 11 of them in payroll.
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
You can find out more about Kate on LinkedIn, Twitter and at kateupcraft.com
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by Gina Broadhurst Georgina is a small business owner AND the co-founder of ForgottenLtd - The campaign for fair and equal meaningful Government support for the director owners of small limited companies during and after the Covid19 global pandemic
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
You can find out more about Gina and ForgottenLtd on twitter at @ForgottenLtd and at www.forgottenltd.com
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil recap their favourite moments of Season 1 as well as run though our guests for season 2.
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.com
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by David Dand.
David is the director of Dand HR Associates who specialise in outsourced HR, employer branding and senior level recruitment in the accountancy, financial and professional services.
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
BONUS Episode! Before our next Future Positive Community event next week, catch up with our first panel event looking at Future proofing the accounting industry.
To kick things off we’ve brought together a panel of industry specialists to talk about what 2021 will bring - both the challenges and the opportunities.
Leading the panel is Rob Brown, TED speaker, podcast host and founder of the Business Development Academy which works with accountants & professionals to win new business.
He was joined by:
-Paul Barnes, MAP
-Zoe Lacey-Cooper, Accountex
-Emma Chesson, Kreston Reeves
-Matt Flanagan, Appacus
Find out more at www.futurepositivecommunity.com
Register for our next event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4416208083171/WN_uqPLiwNfSDKxwT_MJK44qw
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Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by James Ashford.
James is the founder of GoProposal, the Bestselling Author of the recently updated "Selling to Serve", Keynote Speaker and Director of accounting firm MAP. He is also a prolific user of social media and has built one of the most active communities in the accounting space.
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
Episode resources:
You can find out more about James and Go Proposal at www.goproposal.com
Book mentioned: 24 Assets: Create a Digital, Scalable, Valuable and Fun by Daniel Priestley
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week Kirsty & Phil are joined by John Stokdyk.
John is the current Editor in Chief for AccountingWEB - the leading online community for accounting professionals. As editor John played a key role in delivering the highly regarded Practice Excellence and Software Excellence Awards and has been involved with Web-based media since 1997.
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
Episode resources: You can find out more about John and AccountingWeb at AccountingWEB.co.uk
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
This week (recorded at the start of April) Kirsty & Phil are joined by Lucy Cohen.
Lucy is the Co-founder of Mazuma Accountants as well as a diversity & mental health champion, author of the Millennial Renaissance and who was named 'Woman of the Year 0 Technician' at first ever Women in Accountancy and Finance Awards
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
Episode resources: You can find out more about Lucy and Mazuma at https://www.mazumamoney.co.uk/ and via her regular column on Accounting Web.
Also the People Matters series on AccountingWeb returns in May.
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Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
Kirsty & Phil talk to Claire Bennison. Claire is the head of the ACCA UK, and a judge for the Women in Accountancy and Finance Awards. Claire held roles at Whitbread and Ericsson before moving into professional bodies with eight years at the CIPD before joining the ACCA, who now have c90,000 members –the fastest growing membership all of the professional bodies as well as the most diverse membership.
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more on the ACCA visit www.accaglobal.com or follow them on twitter at @ACCA_UK
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
https://capitalise.com/
Welcome to the Future Positive Podcast, part of the Future Positive Community for accountants and business advisers.
Kirsty & Phil talk to Rob Collins, Finance Lead at digital receipt platform Flux about the lessons he learned about practice when he moved to industry. Previous to Flux, Rob worked for over 7 years in practice for UHY East and was part of their cloud team. He also guested on a social media webinar Capitalise ran in 2019, back in the days when Webinars were still new and exciting!
Hosted by Phil Hobden (Head of Customer Education @ Fintech Capital Advisory platform Capitalise) & Kirsty McGregor (Head Of the Corporate Finance Network)
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.co.uk
Episode resources:
Find out more about Flux at www.tryflux.com
https://capitalise.com/
BONUS! Back in December 2020 Ollie Maitland hosted our last Practice Leaders of 2021.
Welcome to the Capitalise Practice Leaders series, this month we mixed it up for a festive episode! Pamela Phillips from De Jong Phillips and Richard Spofforth from Kreston Reeves joined Capitalise co-founder and Chief Product Officer Ollie Maitland to discuss all things 2021 planning and strategy.
Whether or not you and your clients feel prepared for what next year has in store, hearing from other firms about how they are tackling planning for 2021 and the end to schemes like CBILS and Furlough will help you get ahead.
The session covered:
-The most effective planning strategies for firms
-How will planning be different from 2020?
-What to expect from clients in 2021?
-The most significant opportunities for next year
- Any potential challenges
Hosted by Ollie Maitland, Co-founder of Capitalise.
For more check out www.futurepositivecommunity.com
https://capitalise.com/
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