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Hi Everyone,
I have been floating around here for a while but thought it was a good time to introduce myself for 2026!
I’m Joe, founder of Q-Wave Media, a creative agency specialising in videography and video editing. A samble of our work can be found here; https://qwavemedia.com/work
I’m also a bit of an operations geek and in a previous life I was quite senior in operations at companies like Adobe and Ferrero, and have been considering adding another string to my bow and taking on some fractional operations clients in 2026.
If either of these offering sound like they would be something you’d like to know more about, please feel free to get in touch, it would be great to meet more of you!
Thanks
Joe
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Market Research
Hello. I’m re-visiting my catapult market research exercises, and would love to have a quick chat with any fellow TPCers about their experience, and pricing, for the following services:
1) AI Strategy and Implementation support – for small / mid size teams
2) Facilitation – for example workshops, or company offsites.
Send me a message through TPC, or directly by email to [email protected] . Thank you!
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Hi Helen – really great to see you getting stuck into the catapult market research material 🚀
I’m tagging some of our AI strategy TPCers – Jaroslav Dokoupil Samie Dorgham Tom Wright Kevin Gohil Adrian Wong Michael Moulsdale – and some of our facilitation experts – Maggie Sarfo Murray Cowan Lexi Radcliffe-Hart Maria Evans PhD Kathryn Heppinstall John Miles Lara Hayward who’ll be able to share their experiences with you and advise on how they price themselves. 🙂
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Hi Helen. (And thanks Sammy for the tag.) I’m an AI consultant covering strategy, governance, and implementation, with a focus on the human side of things (incl. training).
For my pricing, I started with a target day rate and the levels of discounting I can tolerate. Then I packaged my offerings into a menu of products. Behind the scenes I have a table that helps me scale the costs based on the size of the org/team – small teams are cheaper to deliver, so I charge less. In reality…
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Thanks Tom – would be great to have a chat, as I’d love to hear more about all of this. I’ll send you a private note re scheduling.
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Helen Stewart – great to connect again and happy to have a chat so will drop you an email. I cover Ai strategy, Adoption through execution and scaling. Also have some training, speaking engagements and workshop rates that you can glean from and tailor to your needs. Speak soon.
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Happy to chat and give advice (free) where I can around: FS, Banking, Data & AI
Hi community!
I’m Adrian, an FS Regulatory change agent, who specialises in Data and AI.
I’m not available for work, but I’d love to keep building my network, so if anyone has questions about my core subjects, I’d love to talk.
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Adrian Ward! Lets connect…Would love to take up on your offer! I am supporting a Compiance Fintech and would like to pick your brain!
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Absolutely Zia Rezvi would be more than happy to!
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Hi Adrian – welcome to the community! Thank you for introducing yourself and you offfer of support around FS, Banking, Data & AI.
So that we can connect you with other members that could benefit from your support, can you give me any more detail about the kinds of companies or members that would most benefit from your support? Then I can tag members here who it would be good for you to connect with. Have a great Monday!-
Hey team, thanks!
Any members operating with FS related businesses or products may benefit from connecting with me, especially if they are considering or actively working on automation, digital transformation, or responding to any regulatory changes that impact systems and operations.
I can also provide some broad advice on the utilisation of AI for other industries/products, however, it’s most likely to be useful in industries where accuracy is paramount.
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Hi Adrian – I’m tagging some of our financial services focussed members who’ll benefit from connecting with you to help you build your TPC network and beyond Erik Porter Olessia Willybiro Vic Mistry Maneesh Jain Lisa Karran Brett Smithard Steven Kearney Sandy Feriz Deepa Verma John Heaver 🚀
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You’re very welcome! I’m the TPC Community Manager so do give me a shout if you need any assistance with anything else
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Looking for volunteer mentors – Global Business Championship 2026 (April)
I’m Alan Forgie, Client Services Manager for Oxford International Education Group, leading delivery of the Global Business Championship 2026 — an international entrepreneurship programme for high-potential students aged 15–18.
The Championship brings together exceptional students from across Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and Latin America. They work in diverse teams to develop and pitch early-stage business ideas rooted in real-world commercial and social challenges.
The problem we’re solving
We want students to move beyond “school business plans” and start thinking like real founders: clarity of proposition, audience, execution, and trade-offs. For that, they need short, sharp input from people who’ve actually built, scaled, or advised businesses.
Who I’m looking to speak with:
I’m looking for founders, operators, investors, or accredited mentors who:
– Have r…
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This sounds like a fantastic oppurtunity to support budding young entrepreneurs at the Global Business Championship 2026. I’m tagging some of our accredited mentors and community members who are founders, operators or investors who may be able to support the project with mentoring Patricia Bacon Ilaria Vilkelis Danny Wood Yi-Hsian Godfrey Charlie Rogers Sarah Speake Benedict Johnson Alex Hayes-Griffin Bulent Osman Samie Dorgham Mike Anderson Best of luck in your mentoring search Alan Forgie
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Thanks for sharing! It’s a great opportunity to help shape the careers of some highly accomplished young talent!
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Hi Alan Forgie – Happy to support this great project. I mentored two start-ups (traditional and social ventures) to win their respective business plan competitions at NYU Stern Business School and served as a NED at one of them until its exit to Amazon 9 years later.
DM me on next steps.
Thanks TPC Team for flagging me!
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Hi and thanks for responding! Thats exactly the kind of experience and story we want to inspire the students on our programme
I will send you a dm shortly.
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Hey all! I’ve been on my portfolio career journey for a while now and have spent a lot of time reflecting on it. I think that we often focus on the visible parts like clients, deals, income streams, while overlooking the psychological and identity work that comes with the transition.
I wrote a piece about the things that tend to break when you leave a full-time job (vision, money, identity, structure, and community) and the struggles I’ve seen in my own journey and in conversations with others. I thought it might resonate, so I wanted to share it.
https://iwanajohannsen.substack.com/p/the-five-pillars-of-work-how-to-transition
Wishing you all a great week 🙂
Iwana
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I’m also looking for a sponsor for a football podcast featuring one of the biggest names in the UK managerial hall of fame.
He’s a charismatic and controversial character who is sure to gain loads of traction in this World Cup year.
He will also attract lots of high-profile guests to the platform.
What we need is a sponsor to take the plunge.
Can anyone help?
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Thanks for your post, Stephen! What sort of sponsor are you looking for? A company/an individual, financial investment/time investment etc? If you can provide some more details we can think about relevant people for you
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I think we need a company for this. Maybe a drinks company looking to get some coverage during the World Cup without sponsoring the tournament and getting involved with FIFA.
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Hey Joe – great to see you here 🙂 here’s to a prosperous 2026! I’m the new TPC community manager 👋I’ll keep you in mind if any opportunities or asks come our way that Q-Wave or your operations geekery can help with. Let me know if you have a specific ask about connecting with other TPC peeps and I’ll happily tag some.