EVO Ultra Jupiter Group Launch Meeting FACTSHEET

EVO Ultra Jupiter Group Launch Meeting FACTSHEET

EVO Ultra Launch Event Factsheet 0745-0915 Thursday 8 July 2021

EVO Ultra is an exclusive ‘express’ mastermind club for business leaders who are interested in accessing collective brainpower to expand their abilities. Our aim is to enable top-level CEOs, owner/ managers and entrepreneurs from all sectors to share their challenges, generate ideas, develop creative solutions and build an invaluable network of trusted peers.

When: Thursday 8h July 2021, 0745- 0915 Where: The Ultra Boardroom: https://zoom.us/j/92892800370 Speaker: Mark Wright Group Leader: Ian Workman, former MD of Barclays Business UK Please join us to experience a preview of some of the future meeting’s format and decide whether you would like to be involved. Please review this factsheet

Our mission is to create a network of game-changing leaders.

All meetings will be underpinned by a confidentiality agreement, enabling ideas to be freely-shared. We aim to also arrange face-to-face events according to members’ requirements and, as new groups open, we will arrange for them to connect with each other. The club is by invitation only and the groups meet online once a month, from 0700 to 0930 GMT. The first group of 12 Members, Mercury, launched on 17th March 2021. It is led by Sir Peter Wall . The second group, Jupiter, will launch on 8th July 2021 and will be led by Ian Workman - the MD of Barclays Business UK.

EVO Ultra is a confidential online business club specifically for CEOs, owner/managers, entrepreneurs from all sectors. They are businesses that are growing, have staff with good and increasing turnover. Born out of the lockdown era, we have developed a format to achieve extraordinary results in two and a half hours. A ‘condensed’ mastermind and peer group in one. Part support, part networking, part learning, part problem-solving. This follows 5 years of running EVO Business Club. We will invite exceptional speakers to address the group each month based on a specific theme. The meeting format will evolve but includes one-to- ones, and a spotlight on Members with the goal of ‘masterminding’ a challenge or idea.

EVO Ultra Mercury Group Leader Ian Workman - Jupiter Group Leader

Ian Workman was until recently the Managing Director , Head SME Barclays Business Banking in the UK. At Barclays, he worked with over 1 million business customers and 1,000 Relationship Managers but began his time at the bank over 30 years ago as a teenager in a small branch in West Wales. Today, Ian is recognised as an industry leader and expert in the SME Sector having worked with thousands of businesses across the UK in all sectors. He is a passionate advocate of social business and social impact and also equality and diversity in society and is currently studying part time for a Masters degree in Equity & Diversity in Society and previous education includes abridged leadership training at Stanford University.

Schedule for Launch Meeting 0745 – Introduction from group leader Ian Workman 0755 – Why EVO Ultra? - Jamie Breese 0800 – 1 to 1 Meeting

0815 – Guest Speaker Mark Wright with Q & A 0835 – Masterminds: 5 attendees per room 0855 – Facilitator Feedback to main room 0905 – Invitation to apply to Ultra - Jamie Breese 0910 – Ian Workman concludes meeting: guests are invited to ask questions 0915 - Meeting ends

Mark Wright is an influential entrepreneur and self-taught digital marketing specialist, renowned for his success in winning BBC’s The Apprentice 2014. In securing the winners title, Mark went on to find and develop one of the UK’s fastest growing digital marketing agencies, Climb Online, in partnership with Lord Sugar. As the most successful business to have been founded by an Apprentice winner to date, Climb Online turned over an impressive £1.7 million and secured contracts with over 200 businesses from across the UK and overseas in its first year of trading alone. In conversation with Ian Workman, we’ll hear about his epic journey first hand, and his thoughts on the power of connections, collaboration and networking.

Our Special Guest Speaker Mark Wright

When the monthly meetings commence in mid September, the timings will be 7am to 9.30am. There are 12 Members in a group. The group will be meeting online but will meet 4 times a year for a face to face meeting. The format will include the workshopping of Member challenges and 1-1 sessions along with expert guest speakers.

Schedule For EVO Ultra Monthly Meetings • 0700 Leader welcomes, introduces the theme and any new Members/Group News • 0705 2 minute ‘status update’ on both members’ business and personal performance over the last month + have they reached agreed goal • 0720 One to One #1: 15 minutes

• 0735 Member Spotlight #1: 20 mins of whole group ‘masterminding’ a Member’s specific question/challenge • 0755 External guest expert speaker on the meeting’s theme: a conversation or presentation with Q & A • 0825 Member Spotlight #2: 20 mins of whole group ‘masterminding’ a Member’s specific question/challenge

• 0845 One to One #2: 15 minutes + accountability partner agreement for next month • 0900 Each member describes their partner’s agreed goal to group for the next meeting • 0910 Discussion about the next meeting • 0920 Open Round - Member questions, feedback, news • 0930 Meeting End

Ajith started in business in Sri Lanka reconditioning abandoned fridges. He moved to the UK at the age of 15, speaking no English and learned it from watching Newsnight and reading editorials of The Times newspaper. He later gained a place at Birmingham University to study economics. He opened the first Latin American- themed Las Iguanas, with a £10k bank loan in 1991 pretending it was to buy a car. It became a well-known restaurant chain around the UK. He sold it in 2015 for £80m. In 2010 he co-founded Turtle Bay - the casual dining Caribbean restaurant aimed at the mainstream market. Again, this has experienced huge growth and employs thousands of staff across 42 venues. Ajith is also an investor and mentor and his specialties are: business expansion, marketing, people development, operational excellence, and raising finance.

Our Guest Speaker for the 1st Mercury Group Meeting Was Ajith Jayawickrema

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