Join expert mentors for our series of powerful masterclasses to accelerate your health and wellbeing business.

We invite you to attend this Founders First Workshop, hosted by Dr. Becky Sage and a peer group of entrepreneurs to figure out how focusing on your own needs can help your relationships, your organisation and your wider impact.  You do not have to be a FWD member to join this session.

“Being a founder is like being on a rollercoaster. I say it is being on 10 rollercoasters all at once.

We tell ourselves to grin and bear it, to enjoy the ride, to embrace the hustle. We convince ourselves that we will just burn the candle at both ends for the next 6 months, when we will hit that next big milestone and then we can sleep. Resilience is an important entrepreneurial skill, after all, and everyone else is making it work – aren’t they?

True resilience isn’t just getting back up whenever we get knocked down. No one can successfully navigate the leadership demands of entrepreneurship if they constantly feel like they are stumbling around after a knock-out punch.

We can be resilient, effective leaders, founders & entrepreneurs AND be mindful of sustaining our own health. In fact, I think it is imperative to the success of your business.

In this one-hour virtual workshop, we will examine our own relationship to leadership, hear stories from other founders and take away some tools to set you up for business success without sacrificing yourself!”

Dr Becky Sage

Accelerate the development of your health and wellbeing technology with collaborative R&D funding!

The FWD Project is here to help you tap into all important, health-focused collaborative research and development funding opportunities.

Join us in this one-hour briefing to discover how becoming a member of The FWD Project can assist the growth of your SME – through access to collaborative research and development (CR&D) funding calls.

Through this programme, we can provide a comprehensive package of support to help businesses successfully bid for funding. Support can include matching you with an academic partner from our six university partners to collaboratively bid for funding, critical friend review of your bid and professional bid writing.

Briefing Agenda:

• Introduction to The FWD Project
• Collaborative Research & Development funding support offer
• Case Study
• Q&A

Who is leading the session?

Dr Aleksandra Love

Aleksandra is the Health Sector Lead for The FWD Project, helping innovative companies secure CR&D funding and develop new, scalable business models. Aleksandra is an experienced consultant, mentor and trainer with over 18 years of experience in tech transfer, healthcare and consulting, supporting hundreds of innovators take their technologies to market, navigate the health and life sciences sectors and raise both public and private funding.