AI: Understand It Before You’re Left Behind

Becky Lodge (BA Hons) CIM, is the Founder of Little Kanga Ltd (www.littlekanga.co.uk) and is one of Sky News 100 Women. Selected from over 10,000 applicants in the UK in 2017, Becky is an advocate of gender parity and a future thinker who specialises in B2B digital transformation and business growth.

 

Little Kanga Ltd operates two distinct B2B event brands dedicated to start-up and SME business growth namely: Hampshire Meet The Buyer and StartUp Disruptors.

 

Becky is a fully qualified management consultant with over 25 years’ experience in global business including tech and engineering.

 

 

Becky is both degree and Chartered Institute of Marketing qualified with over 25 years' experience globally at director level; with high emotional intelligence, she is results orientated and an adept problem solver for companies that need a new way of doing things to engineer their futures in a sustainable way. Previously employed as a global sales director managing EMEA and US markets, she has a straight-talking approach to business transformation with an energy that is unrivalled.

 

In 2018 she was 'handpicked' for a panel debate on Sky News '100 Women' as part of International Women's Day with Kay Burley. Becky is also a senior level mentor for tech start-ups at Faster Capital (a Venture Capital company based in Dubai); becoming the first UK based female mentor for Faster Capital VC.

 

A published author, her book ‘Don’t Build Rollerskates For Birds’ is now on sale via Amazon. The book is a bible for small business owners wishing to start-up their own company.

 

 

Becky founded her business in 2015 from the kitchen table; and within only 6 months of trading had secured the University of Portsmouth as a client and now her client base includes National Grid, Portsmouth City Council, Uber, Balfour Beatty, Funding Circle, Basepoint Business Centres and many more. 

 

Plans for expansion are in the pipeline – watch this space!

 

 

Little Kanga's client base typically experience sales uplifts of 100-500% when partnering on a retained basis for management consulting services.

 

Offering a 100% money back guarantee to our customer base for consulting services and we don’t work with everyone (#sorrynotsorry); our mission is to help those companies that are ready to expedite and transform their businesses in order to scale, or assist corporates with innovation within their own organisation.

 

A self-confessed 'tech' junkie and social media influencer; Becky is totally addicted to Twitter and this has resulted in gaining over 11,000 active followers on the platform; where she shares knowledge and articles/information for free to her audience.

 

Becky also has over 10,000 followers and connections on Linked In and is renowned for sharing her knowledge and advice for FREE on social media platforms. Becky is considered to be one of the first B2B social media influencers in the UK in her markets of operation. A disruptive future thinker, who is able to harness and utilise social media for companies to transform their sales and marketing processes.

 

Becky is also an active advocate of STEM skills in schools for girls and is a lecturer in sales at the University of Portsmouth Faculty of Business and Law.

 

Having helped over 3,000 businesses to grow their revenue through paid and voluntary work, she is committed to helping local entrepreneurs to grow both fast and sustainably, this is through her vastly successful start-up group 'Start-Up Disruptors' which has over 1000 online members and is currently sponsored and supported by Uber, Funding Circle and Basepoint Business Centres.

 

 

The aim of the group is to help combat high start-up failure rates locally and provide a 'safe place' for start-ups to flourish and grow, this includes funding and access to a tech acceleration programme in Dubai with partners Faster Capital. Started in a pub in Portsmouth in 2016, the group is the FASTEST and LARGEST small business community on the south coast.

 

This online start-up community now has a social media reach to over 50,000 small business owners per week and followers across social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn and a UK expansion programme is planned. You can find out more and subscribe to the group via the link below:

 

http://littlekanga.co.uk/startup-disruptors/

 

The group was also featured on Channel 4 in 2018 as part of a new series and Becky has also been featured on the BBC as a spokesperson for small business around the topic of BREXIT and future business growth.

 

 

Hampshire Meet The Buyer is a premium B2B event that brings together start-ups, SMEs and corporate businesses to build a sustainable business life cycle and ‘do more business together’.

 

Key decision makers are in the room and speakers have included: Grant Thornton, Uber, National Grid and many others.

 

Designed as a conference/expo that helps share knowledge on such topics as Business Growth, The Future of Business Transportation and much more. Fed up of the sub-standard offering in the local market (that delivered zero return on time invested), Becky designed this unique event with sales and business development as a top priority, in order that attendees could speed up sales conversion.

 

It works.

 

Attendees are given direct introductions to companies that are ready to do business with them (they have contracts to award), thus shortening the sales process to allow business developers and CEO’s to ‘cut to the chase’ and get more orders/contracts and lessen the costs of business development.

 

An event app also helps connect attendees to do more business in advance of the event via Linked In. The target audience is CEO’s, Founders, Heads of Procurement and senior level management in construction, tech, facilities management and engineering. If you are serious about sales and don’t want to just ‘meet up for coffee’ then this is the event to attend. Ticketing is all paid and the event has sold out 4 weeks in advance of running for the last 2 years; a waitlist is operated each year and tickets are sold through Eventbrite online.

 

This event has continued to grow in size since its launch with an average attendee base of 150 and last year tickets sold out within 4 weeks of them going on sale. 

 

Quality of attendee is placed over quantity; and we guarantee that you will get to see at least one major buyer during the event, last year on average attendees saw 6 buyers during the event, resulting in some great case studies and testimonials, which can be viewed online via the following link – one business won an annual contract of £300k from a ticket value of a few hundred pounds.

 

Too good to be true?

 

No, there’s a new and better way of doing business with technology at the very heart of it, this is what we do.