VarnFest 2026

VARNFEST25 - SHARE, LEARN, GROW

VarnFest is back on 10th June 2026

Business people and thinkers share their personal stories to help you and your business to grow.

VarnFest 26 is the woodland business festival for Leaders, Founders and Directors - sharing honest stories, mistakes, doubts and successes and the leadership lessons learned on the way. Business people and thinkers share their personal stories to help you and your business to grow.

At Varn our business focus is fantastic SEO results for our clients and we know we can get websites to rank well. However, we also know there is much more to business than search engine marketing. That’s why we wanted to host a festival of business sharing the journey and path travelled to success - whatever success means to you. The purpose of VarnFest is to get business owners and leaders together in our unique outdoor woodland office setting in Wiltshire, listening and learning from others who have fascinating leadership stories to share.

Check out our speaker lineup poster below and look forward to inspiring talks from:

🎤 Tom Vaughton – Woodland Wanderer, Founder & CEO of Varn

Why boring is the new superpower. Importance of consistency in leadership and values

🎤 Marina Traversari – Founder & CEO of Chilled Squirrels Ltd - Purpose led eco-tourism

Scaling with soul: Growth without losing who you are

🎤 Michael Glanville – Executive Coach

Leading from the inside out: How you show up will shape success

🎤 Sophie Creese – Co-Founder & CEO of HeyFlow

The hidden link: How reproductive life stages shape the female talent lifecycle + what it means for your leadership + bottom line

🎤 Dan Collins – Business Owner, Author & Facilitator of Adventurous Conversations

A 'successful' leadership conversation

🎤 Richard Spilsbury – Founder Link Stone Advisory, Board Advisor, former Director Future Publishing

Scaling + surviving: Leadership hacks for productivity + people that actually work