After more than a year of research, writing, and collaboration, I’m super excited to announce that ”Adopting AI for Business Transformation” is now available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon! Would you like to like, share, and spread some love? 
The king of sauces! 
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Can building a business be FUN & ENGAGING?
What does it take to make the process pleasant and encouraging?
We get the nuggets of Wisdom from the global leaders in the personal development space – Aaron & Robert – AHR3 who have trained and coached hundreds and thousands of people from all walks of life and worldwide.
Robert Raymond Riopel and Aaron Huey (AHR3), are speakers, trainers, and best-selling authors, who support entrepreneurs to become more self-aware and successful and, most importantly, have a lot of fun in doing so!
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For now, enjoy the podcast!
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Thanks for sharing Sikta! Really interesting to listen to 🙂
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Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone in here works for the art sector, like galleries, museums or art institutions? If so, I’d love to ask some questions for a market research I am doing.
Many thanks
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Fab, thanks for sharing Valeria! Some community members who may be good contacts: Estelle Renaud, Harpreet Sharma, Fiona Godfrey, Erica Coulehan, Ola Podgorska, Lewis Evans
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Hi Valeria, My daughter is an artist and also works at the Ashmolean museum in Oxford – you can contact her via a message to me if this will help. Thanks, Andrew
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Hi Andrew, thank you. If I can get her in contact with and see if she can help me with a quick survey that would be amazing. Let me know. Thanks
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Hi Valeria – her name is Eleanor and her email address is [email protected]. She is happy to help.
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Do you have experience in institutional sales for a hedge fund, quant fund, or any investment manager in the alternatives/private markets/illiquids universe?
Or know anyone that does?
If so, I’d love to speak to you/them – please message me!
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This might be of interest to Daniel Subin James Du Boulay Ben Hakham Matthew Winch Luciano Bíscaro Tuna Dan Alexander James Stanzler Richard Saldanha
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Andrea Marchiotto posted in the group The Community
I hope you will allow this little post about writing. At the end, it’s about sharing knowledge. It’s finally here!
After more than a year of research, writing, and collaboration, I’m super excited to announce that ”Adopting AI for Business Transformation” is now available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon! Would you like to like, share, and spread some love? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andreamarchiotto_aiadoption-businesstransformation-generativeai-activity-7269781349916463106-VVro/
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Thank you so much! I appreciate the support.
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Congrats, Andrea – all the hard work has paid off!
Did you have any major learnings you can share with the collective as a result of going through the process of getting a book out into the world?
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Thank you Charlotte! I got tons of good learning. Sharing a few:
1) Get your outline and structure super clear and avoid as much as possible to keep changing it, to avoid troubles with your editor
2) Even if you use LLMs to help you out with writing, you will still need to account for hundred of hours in creating content, researching, re-structuring, reviewing, and editing multiple times, over and over; forget almost one entire year of weekends (tell the family what will change)
3) Writ…
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Charlie Rogers perhaps some bits to bear in mind for your upcoming venture
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Thanks! I am working on a Medium article with the behind the scene that might be useful for some. I’ll share it once ready.
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Congratulations on an ENORMOUS achievement. Conceiving, writing, editing, producing and publishing is a huge undertaking. I’ve self-published two books so I can empathise with the blood, sweat, tears, love and VISION that goes into it. I published paperback/ kindle via KDP, and Smashwords for all other e-readers. I’m sure the options have change a lot since 2013/ 2015 so I’ll be sure to read your medium article. Do you plan to publish for e-readers to make it more accessible?
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I’m looking for help to develop my brand as a Fractional CFO and to build a basic website to promote the business. Is any one available to help?
Thanks
Colin
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Hi Colin Sharp are you just looking for someone to build your website and put your presence on the web?
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Hi Colin! Happy to help with this if needed – I have built websites for this very purpose, for several companies and individuals, using WordPress or similar.
Send me a DM and we can chat about it
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Hi Matilda, I’m just looking to have website that gives me a presence and an email address that isn’t gmail. If you could help that would be great.
My phone number 07817 270694
Thanks
Colin
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Hi TPC family!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, but I’m excited to reconnect and share something close to my heart.
As portfolio professionals, many of us know the unique, and sometimes lonely, journey of navigating solo work. That experience inspired me to create Unfiltered Solopreneur, a podcast dedicated to sharing the raw, real stories of solopreneurs, who’ve traded corporate security for the adventure of building something from scratch.
I’m thrilled to announce that Episode 7 drops this Thursday, featuring Launi, founder of Creative Play, who went from designing for Disney to crafting her own entrepreneurial adventure.
I hope you’ll give it a listen. My goal is to inspire, connect, and remind us all that we’re not alone in this journey. New episodes drop every Thursday!
Available on YouTube. Find us on Apple, Spotify and Amazon Music by searching ’Unfiltered Solopreneur’
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Thank you! Let me know what you think, once you have a listen. I am always looking to improve.
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Fantastic stuff, Nikhil!
Is this your first foray into podcasting? Would love to hear about your experience so far.
Will add this to my listen list…
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Thank! Yes, my first time. It has been an interesting and bumpy journey and I have already learned a ton – and more each day. Happy to chat.
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Thank you! Love to hear what you think.
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TPC Team posted in the group The Community
Our networking event is back! This Friday – 1-2pm. Some of you have already got this pencilled in, but make sure you sign up to get the link to join us!
https://portfolio-collective.com/events/community-networking/
For those of you who haven’t come along before, this is a fast, fun hour of speed networking. You really never know who you’ll meet! In this safe space, step out of your comfort zone and connect with a community of portfolio professionals on the same journey as you.
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What a lovely session. A special shout out goes to Lexi Radcliffe-Hart for her seamless facilitation and Ella Bernie for her break room management.
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We’re looking forward to having you!
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Hi TPC – happy Monday!
I’m developing a new service offer – a Legal Health Check – and so, to test and get feedback on the offering, I’m offering free Legal Health Checks for the next couple of months.
It’s a 1:1 strategy session to dive into all things legal, followed by a short, actionable report setting out gaps and areas of improvement ranked by importance and urgency.
If you or any of your contacts would benefit from a Legal Health Check, please feel free to connect.
It’ll only be free for a couple of months while we refine the offering and then it’ll be charged at around £2,500 plus VAT.
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What a fab offer, thanks for sharing Alexandra! I’m assuming this check would be applicable to freelancers/fractional workers? I’ll keep you in mind and point folks in your direction
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Thanks Charlotte
And yes, absolutely open to freelancers/fractional workers – we’ll talk about things like your customer agreements, structuring, intellectual property, engaging suppliers/subcontractors, etc.
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Hey Alexandra! This sounds fascinating! Do you work with authors? I have a few questions about copyright, intellectual property and more! Thank you!
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Hi Holly, I’m certainly happy to have a chat and see if i can answer your questions – if I can’t, I’ll be able to point you to someone who can. Drop me an email at [email protected] and we can find a time for a call.
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This year hasn’t gone quite as I’d hoped, and I am still early on my journey to figure out what is next. Nevertheless, I thought I would share this. Several months ago, on a Zoom call, Ben Legg suggested I think about the synergy between my science fiction writing and my ”day job” building software. I’m doing a talk next week at Women of Silicon Roundabout on futures thinking, which has evolved out of this thinking.
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Huge congrats on the speaking gig, Jule
As we spoke about a lot on the Catapult calls, portfolio careers are ever evolving and sometimes that evolution can be slow – putting in the ground work now will be hugely helpful in ensuring you are moving in the right direction for you. Enjoy this exploratory phase where you can!
Keep us updated with how the talk goes – we’d love to see a link if it is recorded
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Amazing work Jule! Keep up the great work!! So gutted I missed this! As an author myself, I know how much of a rollercoaster writing can be! I really leaned into building a separate business to sustain my lifestyle and give me my time back so that I could write. I’d love to connect with you and pick your brain on how you managed to get around the rollercoaster! x
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Hi all – update from me. The talk went really really well. People seemed to react very well to it, and I ended up having a queue of people to speak to me at the end and got a lot of great contacts.
It’s really given me a boost, so thanks for the support here.
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Oh excellent, well done! So pleased you ended up enjoying the process – so when’s the next speech booked for??
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Alex Fries
posted in the group Based in the Middle EastTime to spin up the TPC Middle East chapter!
To get started, please invite all your ME-based TPC contacts to join the group…
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Tagging those who live in the MIddle East, or seem to have links there: Alex Hayes-Griffin Mohamed Akeel Alison Fleming Venkatesh Mahadevan - FBCS Deepak Jethwani Gayané Grigoryan David Laliberte Aimee Peters James Babb Michael Okwusogu Simon Fee Zahra Sumar Elyse de Wit Robert Kew Asadulla Magdiev Mike Patterson Burak Omeroglu Zeina Haddad Apeksha Asthana Mercedes Cebrian Gurvinder Dhaliwal Giovanni Everduin Shawn Wood Graham Dodds Ravi Lakhani Mahalakshmi Varadarajan Andy Thompson Tariq El Haj Omar Mohammad Alanzi Richard Chubb Richard Jennings @alexbooth Guy Whitcroft…
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Hand-in-hand with the website group here, there is also a brand new shiny WhatsApp group for coordinating meet-ups etc.
If you would like to be added to the WhatsApp group as well, drop me a quick message on +971 58 58 422 98.
Hopefully see some of you IRL soon!
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A gentle nudge to those tagged above to join the group if they wish…
And also to ask for anyone who wants to join the WhatsApp group to message me on +971 5858 422 98 and I’ll add you!
A slow and gentle momentum is building… 🙂
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Oh we do love chatting with our collective! 🌟
Our Community Networking sessions are always so uplifting and interesting – we come away with a new perspective on the wonderful people we have in our tribe and ideas for how we can better meet the needs of our people.
We’d love to hear about some of the people you met or the topics you covered in your breakout rooms, so do share below ✨
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Rob Wright posted in the group I'm looking for.. .
ANYONE INTERESTED IN ELIMINATING POVERTY?!
Over the last 18 months or so, I’ve been volunteering on a project to help tackle poverty. And the report of our findings & recommendations is now out (see attached).
As a workers and workplaces resilience specialist, I’m also keenly interested in community resilience. And clearly, poverty undermines that in several ways, as it’s typically accompanied by other major issues we all pay a high price trying to recover our equilibrium from.
Our report outlines our recommendations to make some key service improvements that can help keep folks’ heads above water when they’re in financial straits.
I felt we could also make some proposals further upstream & so I wrote down some ideas to help us locally move towards eliminating not just tackling poverty (to protect folk from falling in the river of financial hardship in the first place).
For whatever reason, the project facilitators decided to includ…
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Thanks for sharing, Rob – really interesting report and kudos for having your additional suggestions added verbatim!
‘Business, financial and leadership coaching and advice for small-business entrepreneurs.’ Is so critical in helping individuals get their ventures off the ground and something I’m sure many of our community members could help with
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Holly Guy posted in the group I'm looking for.. .
Hey guys!!
My name is Holly, and my philosophy is to live first and work second. Having said that, I am also ”semi-retired”, on track to smash my alarm clock on my 25th birthday!! I’m so excited!
I’m looking to connect with other people who are trying to escape the doom that is 9-5 until you die! Any other big dreamers out there?
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Hey Holly!
Love your philosophy – prioritising life over work is so inspiring, and smashing your alarm clock at 25 sounds like a dream!
Would love to hear more about your journey and what’s next for you post-9-to-5
Will send you a DM!
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So great to have you join Holly. I loved our chat the other day and look forward to more chats in the future. Let me know if I or the team can help with anything on here!
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I have a distinct memory of sitting in the office I was working from in 2018 thinking, ’why do I spend so much of my time here?’ It suddenly seemed totally ludicrous to me, so that evening I submitted my condensed hours request and made the effort to use my extra time off to do things I enjoyed and were meaningful to me.
I’ve not gone back to the 9-5 approach since then – I can’t believe it took me until my late 20s to realise that flexibility was so important t…
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Hi everyone and an embracing hello from me on my first day with the Collective!
I’ve uploaded my profile and am looking forward to developing my network and opportunities with you. Here are my key areas of interest in terms of taking my own business offer forward. Happy to discuss/ develop further and to get involved –
1. Client Adviser – Construction Project Support
I provide client-side advisory services to help shape project briefs and specifications, define budgets and establish timelines. With experience managing projects from £250k to £25 million, I can support all stages, from project inception to operation.
2. Business Development and Support Consultancy
I offer consultancy to SMEs, corporates, and charitable organizations, focusing on strategy, growth and operations. My experience spans startups, turnarounds, restructures and scaling operations across multiple sectors for sustainable, viable growth and/ or exit.
3. Non-Executive Director &…
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Thanks for the low down, Rich – nice to see your offers so succinctly laid out
In order to get integrated with the collective I’d definitely suggest coming along to our monthly online Community Networking – a fun and fast approach to networking, this is great to way to meet fellow community members and learn thing or two
The next session is actually tomorrow if you happen to be free! https://portfolio-collective.com/events/community-networking/
Hope to see you at a…
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Hello Community,
Happy Friday! 🎉
I’ve been a member of TPC for a couple of months now, and today I’m thrilled to share that I’ve secured my second paying assignment/job! I can officially call myself a Portfolioist—not just part-time for one company anymore.
It was fantastic meeting some of you at the TPC Festival. The event was incredibly informative and a lot of fun.
A bit about me: I’ve been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and recently branded myself as a Fractional Sales & Marketing Director. I help scaling companies and startups achieve growth through strategic sales, marketing, and business development—this is where my true skills and passion lie. I’m looking forward to connecting with more of you over the coming months.
If you’re still reading, here’s my favourite moment of the week: I met one of the TPC community members in a café yesterday for coffee. During our chat, he mentioned “the CEO of HP,” and for some reason, I respon…
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The king of sauces!
Massive well done on the new addition to your portfolio career – are you able to share who you’re working with?
I had a lovely chat with Mark Tupper earlier this week (profile incoming!) who asked whether there was a call for sales skills in the fractional world – thank you for providing a real life example that there is!
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I’m currently working with two very different companies: a 30-year-old manufacturing business that hasn’t had a meaningful sales or marketing strategy in place, and a younger company in their second year, specialising in personalised LinkedIn outreach.
For the younger company, I’m helping refine their product offering before moving on to sales, marketing, and delivery. With the manufacturing business, the focus is on developing a strategic approach to sales and marketing rather than jus…
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Thank-you
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Love to see this Danny and great to have you come along to the festival! Welcome to your portfolio career and the tribe that will help you make it successful 🙏🏼
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Congrats on the second role Danny. Great to hear the good news after our conversations at the festival/
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Thank-You James
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I love this! I have built three businesses and every single one of them has been incredibly fun & exciting. I’m glad to hear you are destigmatising the idea that building a business is boring & taxing!!