Speakers

Katrina Sargent is a renowned networking strategist who will be presenting the 20-minute talk, "Beyond the Brand: How to Franchise Your Network for Hyper-Local Growth." Her presentation will show franchise owners and franchisees how to move beyond "random-networking" to systematically franchise their relationships for scalable, hyper-local growth. Katrina is the co-founder of Business Buzz a national networking organisation that operates in over 60 towns in the UK, and has been supporting local businesses to connect for over 15 years.