Breakthrough Conference Day 2026:
A Business & Personal Growth Day for Leaders Who Want More

Tuesday 24th February 

Crown & Sandys, Ombersley, Worcester

Take one powerful day to step away from the day-to-day and focus on growing your business, your leadership, and your confidence

This is not another boring conference.

Breakthrough is practical, interactive, inspiring — and designed to create real change.

9.30am to 4.00pm

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What To Expect on the Day

Welcome Coffee & Networking

Connect with other ambitious business leaders and start the day on a high

Inspiring Keynotes & Real Business Stories

Hear from leaders who have overcome challenges, embraced innovation, and achieved real growth

Ask the Experts – Live Panel Q&A

Get clear, practical answers from specialists in:
• Finance • HR & People • Marketing & Growth • Leadership • AI & Innovation

Hands-On Workshops

Work through your goals, challenges, and opportunities with guided support

AI for Business — Practical Tools You Can Use Now

Understand what AI can actually do for your business and leave with easy, accessible ways to get started.

Neurodiversity Masterclass with Maisie Cass

Learn how to build an inclusive environment that boosts innovation, creativity, and performance.

Mindset & Resilience Session

Develop tools and habits to stay strong, focused, and motivated — even during challenging periods

Networking Lunch: Lunch with Leaders

Choose from themed tables including:
• Leadership • Finance • Marketing • Growth • AI & Innovation • Mindset

Action Planning & Accountability Pledge

Turn insights into action. Leave with focus, clarity, and commitment.

Closing Drinks Reception

Relax, connect, and celebrate what you’ve achieved in just one day.

Meet Our Guest Speakers

Nick Baxter

How to use AI and automation to work smarter, save time, and grow your business

Introducing Nick

Nick Baxter is an entrepreneur and former professional rugby player with over 15 years’ experience consulting businesses on leadership, talent management, culture, and organisational performance. His deep understanding of how organisations operate created a natural progression into the world of artificial intelligence, where he saw the potential for SMEs to remove friction, increase capability, and work more efficiently.
Alongside his co-founder, Nick has built a multidisciplinary team of AI specialists, developers, coders, engineers, and automation experts—combining organisational insight with full technical delivery to create real, working AI solutions for clients.
Through AI Expert, Nick helps organisations adopt AI in a practical, human-centred, commercially meaningful way, guiding leaders with clarity, trust, and measurable impact.

About Nick

Maisie Cass

How embracing neurodiversity can transform your workplace and unlock innovation.

Introducing Maisie

Maisie Cass is a Neuroinclusion Consultant, Speaker, and Founder of Diversity Does, specialising in helping organisations build workplaces where neurodivergent talent can thrive. With deep expertise in ADHD, autism, behaviour communication, and lived experience as a parent-carer, Maisie works with leadership teams to transform culture, strengthen retention, and create environments where people do their best work — without masking, burnout, or barriers.

Alongside her corporate work, Maisie is a recognised advocate for women with ADHD in business, championing the strengths, creativity and leadership potential of neurodivergent professionals.
Known for her warm, grounded, and quietly bold delivery, Maisie brings a refreshing mix of evidence, lived experience and practical insight — leaving audiences inspired, equipped, and ready to build truly neuroinclusive teams.

About Maisie

Huw Lewis

A powerful leadership journey to help you move your business forward with clarity and confidence

Introducing Huw

Purpose-driven executive coach and leader with 35+ years of experience across the military, business, education, clothing, catering, physical fitness and personal development sectors. I work with senior leaders, founders, and professionals to unlock clarity, confidence, and high-impact performance. Drawing on a lifetime of values based leadership, spanning military service, entrepreneurship, and youth empowerment. I bring insight, challenge, and empathy to every coaching conversation. Recognised with the Institute of Directors' Director’s Director Award, clients value my ability to cut through complexity, instil resilience, and align action with purpose.

To empower leaders to thrive. Helping them unlock clarity, resilience, and purpose in their leadership. My coaching practice is centred on the success of my clients in order to enabling them to navigate change confidently, lead with authenticity, and deliver lasting impact in their organisations and communities.

About Huw

Paul Crowe

Working with Business Owners in preparing for sale, scale or succession

Introducing Paul

Paul brings over 45 years of sales expertise, honed through national and European leadership roles and hands-on experience across a diverse range of industries.

With a proven track record in driving performance improvement, Paul is a natural business builder—more growth architect than day-to-day manager.

Throughout his career, he has played pivotal roles in multiple start-ups, mergers & acquisitions, and two successful management buy-outs. His work spans pioneering initiatives in emerging business functions and expanding strategic positions, always with a focus on innovation and impact.

Having survived both prosperous and challenging periods as an owner, he brings a wealth of experience marked by hard-earned lessons and notable achievements. This enables him to provide timely, informed guidance and support as situations and opportunities unfold.

Today, Paul operates independently, delivering consultancy-driven sales performance solutions that are both strategically relevant and pragmatically executed. His mission is clear: to help successful business owners transform their viable businesses into buyable ones.

Typically, his approach focuses on three critical capabilities:

  • Empowering leadership teams to operate autonomously
  • Scaling sales and business processes to be repeatable, and predictable
  • Creating robust accountability and reporting frameworks across the organisation

His success stems from a deep passion for understanding each client’s unique strategic and tactical challenges—and crafting tailored, effective solutions that deliver measurable results.

About Paul

Who This Event Is For

Business owners, directors, entrepreneurs, and leaders who want to:

  • Grow their business
  • Improve their leadership
  • Use AI effectively
  • Strengthen team culture
  • Take action and build momentum

Ready to Break Through? You’ll leave with clarity, confidence, and a plan — not just notes.

Tickets & Investment

Spaces are limited to keep the day interactive and high impact.

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