Business Gateway Tayside, Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce and Coca-Cola 5by20 are joining forces to showcase the business support that exists in Tayside.

Meet and network with the various organisations that make up the Tayside business support ecosystem and hear how they can support your business throughout its growth journey.

FEATURING THIS EVENT’S GUEST SPEAKERS:

Dianne Teo, CEO, T30 Fitness Training – Sponsored by Entrepreneurial Scotland

Dianne boasts a career in fitness spanning over 30 years and two continents. Her passion is fitness and exercise. Over the years she has gained unmatchable experience across a wide variety of disciplines in the fitness industry. From group exercise classes to teaching students academically, from personal training to delivering physical activity to special populations, from climbing mountains to teaching babies to swim. Her experience is vast.

Dianne worked for the Malaysian Sports Board for 7 years developing several programmes with the aim to tackle obesity, as well as promote and encourage fitness activities within the community. The programmes ranged from low-intensity walking sessions based on weight loss, to intensive training and very specific training for the South-East Asian Aerobic championships.

Whilst living in Asia she was active in charity work and trained a team to climb Mount Kinabalu (the highest mountain in South-East Asia) for charity. She also trained and captained a team of 22 rowers to the semi-finals and finals of the World Dragon Boat Championships in Singapore.

In 1992 Dianne and her family moved back to Scotland, which led to her role as Senior Lecturer in Sports & Fitness at Glasgow Clyde College for a number of years before she went part-time to focus on her business.

Dianne has imbedded charity work into T30 Fitness Training and regularly organises events including 4 huge combo challenges in the UK, with proceeds going to Dementia, Cancer, Children in Need and Heart Disease.

When she is not lecturing students at the college Dianne continues to follow her passion and teaches a variety of group exercise classes for Glasgow Life or is working on her business.

Dianne has tapped into years of knowledge and skills gained through the fitness industry as well as an academic and scientific background, to design, Fatburn Extreme and GameFit under the T30 Fitness Training company which she launched in 2015.

To date, T30 Fitness training has gained 5 accreditations and numerous awards globally. T30 now has 82 Master Trainers and 2200 instructors who are teaching both concepts to 2.3 million participants across 18 countries.

Jamie McBrearty, Director of YMindset

Jamie McBrearty MBA, BSc (Hons) is a director at YMindset who provide fun, interactive, challenging and thought-provoking bespoke programmes in education, business and sport. Jamie has been training business leaders, teachers, nursery staff, coaches, volunteers, parents, leadership teams, sports clubs and grassroots to elite athletes not only on the theory of Growth Mindset but implementing a range of tools, techniques and resources. Jamie holds an M.B.A. in Sports Development, and his extensive sports development, business and educational background create a unique perspective on his philosophy and coaching style. Along with being a keen runner, Jamie coaches the Under 15’s squad at Dundee Football Club, whilst being a husband, father of 3 and a champion at Hide and Seek.

ORGANISATIONS THAT WILL BE PRESENT

Business Gateway Tayside

Business Gateway provides fully funded support to start-up and growing businesses, including free workshops, expert 1-2-1 advice and access to its Business Information Service.

Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce

Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce is the leading business membership organisation in Dundee and Angus, and part of the worldwide long-established Chamber of Commerce brand. The Chamber of Commerce works hard to help provide members with the business connections and opportunities they need to flourish.

Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce represents its members’ views and aims to influence opinion makers, and is passionate about Dundee and Angus – promoting it as a world-class destination to help the local business community to thrive.

Coca-Cola 5by20

Coca-Cola 5by20 provides a range of interactive business and enterprise training programmes; members network; ongoing support and mentoring to economically support the empowerment of women.

Elevator

Elevator is a social enterprise with the mission to support the leaders of today and tomorrow and encourage entrepreneurship, business start-up and growth.

Interface

With connections to all of Scotland’s universities, research institutes and colleges, Interface works with businesses to match them to world-leading academic expertise, research, technology and specialist facilities to help them grow.

Dundee City Council Business Development Team

The Business Development Team at Dundee City Council commissions and contract manages Business Gateway services, offers self-employment support and start-up funding (E-Zone), provides a tailored package of support to potential inward investors, delivers a range of sector support initiatives to key sectors (BioDundee, Energy Dundee and Tayscreen), supports delivery of the Supplier Development Programme for companies seeking to win contracts through public procurement, manages the Digital Boost Programme to enhance business use of technology and can provide financial support through Dundee Development Grant, Overseas Market Development Grant and Business Loans Scotland.

Entrepreneurial Scotland

Entrepreneurial Scotland is a member network and leadership development organisation providing opportunities for like-minded ambitious individuals to share experiences and develop their leadership skills. We aim to inspire, develop and connect Scotland’s current and future leaders to build the most entrepreneurial society in the world.

Healthy Working Lives
Jane Duffy is an Occupational Health and Safety Adviser for Healthy Working Lives and Workplace Programme for NHS Tayside. Jane advises small to medium-sized enterprises and the voluntary sector on aspects of occupational health and health and safety. She is a qualified occupational health nurse with a masters degree in Occupational and Environment Health and Safety Management, and has worked in this discipline for 24 years. Jane can help you with policy development and risk assessment process and is happy to help develop other resources and offer training where appropriate for your organisation.

Skills Development Scotland
Skills Development Scotland supports SME’s to develop through the fully funded Skills for Growth programme for businesses. Skills for Growth offers bespoke analysis for business owners and managers to understand the training needs of the business, which will help them achieve their business growth objectives.