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: Nurturing the engine - 5 changes to protect margin + sanity.
📅 15th September 2026, 12:30 - 1:30 PM
How changing language and evolving processes across the core pillars of your SME business can change your profitability and culture.
This session will look at 5 practical and easily applied shifts across the core business pillars of Finance, HR, Marketing, Sales, and Operations that will help evolve culture and profitability.
Attendees will leave with a practical toolkit to help reduce margin erosion, soften client negotiations, and get owners back into the cockpit of their business.
No boring corporate theory. Actionable micro-adjustments that can be implemented the same day to help protect your profits and your sanity.
What you'll learn
You will learn about the core five pillars of running a business (Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations and HR) and how applying slight adjustments and reframing approaches in your business can help with business growth and owner sanity.
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Lunch + Learn Experts
Ben Sheppard is the founder of Nurture Path - The Founder’s Wingman, a partner for SME leaders who want to stop fighting daily fires and build a predictable, profitable and sustainable business.
With 15+ years in agency leadership, Ben previously scaled product divisions for agencies and global brands before taking the reins as Managing Director of a SME Creative and Production company. Today, he helps independent business owners across five core pillars of their business - Finance, HR, Marketing, Sales, and Operations - so they can protect their margins and reclaim their sanity.
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.
