Business Growth Podcast
Scale-Up Sessions
Cynergy Bank's podcast for ambitious business leaders looking to scale with confidence.
Hosted by Martin Kennington and expert guests, exploring business growth, funding, leadership and growth strategy.
Practical insights to help grow, finance and scale your business.
Business Growth Podcast
Scale-Up Sessions
Cynergy Bank's podcast for ambitious business leaders looking to scale with confidence.
Hosted by Martin Kennington and expert guests, exploring business growth, funding, leadership and growth strategy.
Practical insights to help grow, finance and scale your business.
How to Use AI to Scale Your Business: Google Cloud’s Strategy for Real Value
Yinka Fasawe, AI Go-to-Market Lead for financial services and capital markets at Google Cloud, explains how scaling businesses can turn AI experimentation into measurable commercial value. Learn how to prevent AI sprawl, prioritise high-impact use cases and redesign repeatable workflows to improve productivity, decision-making and sustainable business growth.
How to Turn Visibility Into Revenue: Building a Scalable Sales System
Molly Ruland, founder of Heartcast Media, explains how scaling businesses can turn visibility into predictable revenue through targeted marketing, meaningful relationships and a scalable sales system. Learn how to attract high-intent prospects, create repeatable sales processes and reduce founder dependency to drive sustainable business growth.
How Founders Can Delegate Effectively and Build a Leadership Team That Scales
Leadership coach and advisor Kate Waterfall-Hill explores how founders can delegate effectively, overcome founder bottlenecks and build aligned leadership teams that support sustainable business growth. Learn how to transfer ownership and decision-making authority, strengthen leadership team alignment and make smarter resourcing choices without slowing growth or overloading high performers.
How to navigate SME lending and business finance as you scale
Jim Higginbotham, CEO of the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB), explores how scaling businesses can navigate SME lending and choose finance that supports sustainable growth. Learn how to plan funding early, compare commercial finance options, manage working capital needs and use trusted advice to align borrowing with your business growth strategy.
Why focusing on outcomes is critical for scaling a business
Sam Collett, Chief Innovation Officer at Eventus.do, explains how outcome-driven strategy helps scaling businesses connect activity, technology and performance metrics to measurable business value. Discover how to define core outcomes, identify cause and effect, align customer value with commercial goals and make better AI and investment decisions.
How to Scale Your Business Without Losing Customer Loyalty
Louise Coles, Director of Operations and Service Transformation at Cynergy Bank, explores how businesses can scale while protecting customer loyalty, customer experience and service quality. Learn how customer feedback, operational data and continuous improvement can reveal service pressure, prioritise high-impact issues and support sustainable business growth.
How to Use PR to Build Trust, Visibility and Growth
Matt McKenna, Head of Communications and Content at Finder, explores how a focused PR strategy can help scaling businesses build brand trust, increase media visibility and support sustainable growth. Uncover strategies for creating relevant stories, strengthening journalist relationships and turning earned media coverage into measurable commercial impact.
How to Lead Through Growth: Building Resilience and High-Performing Teams
Tom Emery, leadership coach, performance specialist and founder of HEX, explores how resilient leadership helps scaling businesses build trust, empower teams and sustain performance under pressure. Learn practical ways to reframe discomfort, strengthen psychological safety, delegate with accountability and create a transparent, high-performing culture during rapid business growth.
How to Distribute Your Marketing Budget as Your Business Scales
Haly Berni, Head of Marketing at Here East, explains how scaling businesses can allocate limited marketing budgets to strengthen brand visibility and maximise return on investment. Discover how to prioritise audience-led channels, measure marketing ROI, adapt when budgets shrink and use organic content, partnerships and customer advocacy to sustain growth.
How to Build a Purpose-Driven Business That Scales
Becky Willan, co-founder and CEO of Given, explains how a purpose-driven business strategy can strengthen organisational culture, customer loyalty and sustainable growth. Discover how to define an actionable business purpose, secure team ownership, embed it in leadership decisions and close the purpose gap between corporate statements and employees’ everyday experience.
How scale-up businesses can adopt AI responsibly
Rana Bhattacharya, Chief Digital Information Officer at Cynergy Bank, explains how scale-up businesses can build a responsible AI adoption strategy that improves productivity and customer experience. Learn how to prioritise valuable use cases, optimise processes before automation, maintain human oversight and establish AI governance and compliance controls that support safe, confident growth.
How to Scale Your Business Without Burning Out Your Team
Workplace wellbeing and resilience expert Leanne Spencer explains how leaders can prevent team burnout while sustaining high performance as their businesses scale. Discover how to manage intense workloads, build recovery into working rhythms and strengthen connection, energy and leadership resilience to support sustainable business growth.
How to Build a Leadership Team That Scales With Your Business
Dominic Monkhouse, founder of Monkhouse & Company and CEO coach for founder-led businesses, explains how to build a leadership team that supports sustainable scale-up growth. Learn how to navigate the founder CEO transition, hire senior leaders for future needs, create accountability and remove operational bottlenecks without losing strategic control.
How to Build and Scale a Community-Led Brand
Tom Bott, Founder and Managing Director of Signature Brew, explains how music, shared values and community-led branding helped the brewery build loyalty and guide business growth. Learn how authentic brand identity, focused decision-making and clear communication can strengthen resilience, simplify operations and support sustainable scaling through uncertainty.
Choosing the right business finance: How to fund growth the smart way | Dave Golding
In this episode of ScaleUp Sessions, we explore how founders can choose the right type of finance and make sure their business is in the right position to use it effectively. From understanding whether funding is the real solution, to avoiding common scaling traps, this conversation offers practical insight to help you grow with confidence.
Search behaviour is changing: What Scale-Ups need to know to stay visible | Rick Talbot
In this episode of Scale‑Up Sessions, we explore how shifting search behaviour is reshaping visibility for growing businesses, and what scale‑ups need to do to stay discoverable in an increasingly fragmented landscape.
What does it really take to scale a business through every stage of growth? | Devika Wood
In this episode of Scale‑Up Sessions, we dive into our first ever Scale‑Up Story, exploring the real journey of building, growing and leading a business through the highs, lows and pivotal turning points that only experience can teach.