Lunch + Learn: Brighton
Lunch+Learn is a monthly series at Plus X Innovation designed to support the growth of entrepreneurs, founders, and scaling businesses.
Each session brings practical learning, expert advice, and real-world examples across various topics relevant to the challenges of today’s businesses.
Whether you're looking to scale, improve leadership skills, or understand key funding routes, these sessions are tailored to provide actionable insights you can apply right away.
Sessions include a mix of presentations and Q&A, along with lunch to keep you energised while networking with like-minded individuals.
Join our next Lunch + Learn:
Lunch + Learn: Strategic Joy
📅 25th November 2026, 12:30 - 1:30 PM
Learn how to build strategic joy into your life and your business
WGSN's Future Consumer forecast names Strategic Joy as one of the defining consumer emotions heading into 2027. This is not joy for its own sake, but built into systems and paired with purpose as a lever for pride and productivity.
Joy is linked to commercial success, but it's a word that's been worn smooth - many brands use it, but almost none can tell you how to create the conditions for it to thrive.
This session interrogates joy through three lenses – Embodied (physical principles and breathwork exercises), Poetic (what the word really means on an individual level), and Critical (how to create a strategic framework for joy to thrive)
You’ll leave with a better understanding of what joy means and how to build it – for yourself and your company.
What you'll learn
Designed for founders, freelancers and small business teams, this session will introduce practical breathwork techniques to improve focus and wellbeing, help you identify what creates joy in your working day, and explore how to bring more of those moments into your routines, team culture and customer experiences. Leave with a simple framework for making joy an intentional part of how you work and run your business.
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Lunch + Learn Experts
Esme Floyd Hall, aka The Business Poet, is the only consultant in the UK combining critical thinking, LEGO® Serious Play and prize-winning poetry to explore and develop integrated intelligence for individuals, teams and enterprises. A certified ICA Technology of Participation Group Facilitator and Advanced LEGO® Serious Play facilitator, she uses embodied problem-solving to help teams and leaders generate insight, define strategy and elevate ideas. Find out more at www.thebusinesspoet.co.uk
Why attend
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The people I have met here make it a dream coming in a few times a week! I don't see myself being able to go back to working from home the same way I did before coming to Plus X Innovation, I don't think I could leave the sense of community behind. It really is something everyone who is working from home should try!
Central Research Laboratory has contributed to our journey in many ways: access to a network, manufacturing, procurement services, and workshop facilities. CRL enables us to feel like a slightly bigger company than we would otherwise be if left to our own devices. Being here at CRL as a cohort member, makes it feel a lot more real and plugged in into the ecosystem.
Besides the workshop facilities, the best thing about working in the Brighton hub has got to be being able to collaborate with people in the same building as you. The variety of expertise and experience in the building is awesome.
We could not be in a better place to grow as a company. We get amazing support from the Plus X Innovation staff, plus collaboration opportunities with the other inspiring residents and companies. We feel like we’re living in the future of workplaces in the present and that is pretty damn cool.
Through my time at Plus X Innovation my business has turned from a student project into a registered R&D company. My favourite thing about being at Plus X Brighton is having a mini family in the office and a beautiful space to be the best you and make the best connections.
The Lunch + Learn experience
What to expect on the day:
- Bite-sized learning sessions designed to fit into a lunch break.
- Engaging mix of presentations and live Q&A with industry experts.
- Complimentary lunch included to keep you energised and support relaxed networking.
- Hands-on discussion segments or peer exchange moments - share your challenges and learn from real examples.
