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Nottingham University Business School

The Ultimate Scale Up programme

Nottingham University Business School has teamed up with High Growth - one of the UK’s leading business coaching practices - to deliver the Ultimate Scale Up programme.

This world-class programme uses expertise, experience and connections to offer growing businesses the opportunity to move to the next level and fulfil their potential. The programme brings the latest thinking from Scale Up experts and practitioners from across the world, sharing game-changing strategies that facilitate rapid growth.

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This programme puts together decades of hands-on-experience, the latest cutting-edge management tools as well as peer to peer and individual one to one support to equip high-potential companies with the skills, instruments and entrepreneurial passion to grow as fast as possible.

Benefits

Through this programme you will:

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gain an understanding of the driving forces and future scenarios of your industry

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discover future growth opportunities and set clear targets

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define a clear strategy

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develop business resilience to an uncertain market

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design organisational structures and processes to enable fast and efficient execution

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establish habits and routines to enhance personal and team efficiency and execution capabilities

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Stuart Ross, CEO, High Growth

Stuart is CEO of High Growth one of the UK’s leading business coaching practices with an amazing track record of delivering to clients, through coaching and training (offline and online), substantial business growth and performance improvements easily and rapidly. Stuart is also Goldman Sachs 10K Growth Expert and an international bestselling author


Simon Mosey, Nottingham University Business School

Simon is Visiting Professor at Ghent University and editor of the Journal of Technology Transfer, and his research addresses technology entrepreneurship and building a culture of innovation. He is co-author of the popular books, Ingenuity and Building an Entrepreneurial Organisation and has published his research within leading academic journals and periodicals such as the Washington Post and the Financial Times. He is chair of YES and Ingenuity that have developed the entrepreneurial skills of over 9000 student, academic and community entrepreneurs. Simon has led research projects, executive education and community events within the areas of impact led entrepreneurship and social, organisational and environmental innovation.

Who is it for?

This programme is for CEOs and Directors of ambitious, established businesses who are committed to the growth of themselves as leaders, their teams, and their businesses.

Programme fees will be announced in early 2025.

Content

The next programme will be held over a four-month period from October 2025 to January 2026. It includes:

  • a 2-day residential (1-2 October 2025) and a 1-day follow up session (13 November 2025) – including workshops, external speakers and peer networking opportunities. These will be hosted hosted at the University of Nottingham.

  • Scale Up forums – bringing together attendees for virtual sessions covering topics such as accountability, masterminding and learning how to accelerate success

  • one-to-one coaching – the programme includes one-to-one coaching sessions, from a certified Scale Up coach

Participant story

Jonathon Bentley attended the Help to Grow: Management programme in 2021 and then joined us for the Ultimate Scale Up programme in 2023. Find out more about Jonathon's business growth journey and his experiences of the two programmes by reading his case study.

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What makes a business high growth — and how do you create a high-growth company? In his groundbreaking ebook, business thought leader and founder of High Growth, Stuart Ross, shows CEOs and business owners how to make the decisions and mindset shifts necessary to become leaders of high-growth companies. The e-book defines an approach, used successfully in over 5000 companies across the world, to scale any organisation.

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If you have any questions or would like further information about this programme, please submit an expression of interest.

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