Sales Meets Innovation: The Masterclass for Commercial Growth
2025-11-05 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Ludgate Hub, Townshend Street, Skibbereen, Cork, PE81T324, Ireland
About This Event
In today’s fast-paced market, innovation alone isn’t enough, it must be tied directly to sales and customer value. Likewise, sales isn’t just about closing deals, it’s a strategic lever for identifying market needs, shaping innovation, and driving commercial growth.
This 2-hour masterclass led by Alan Maguire (Founder & CEO of ESI) explores the strategic connection between sales and innovation, and why one cannot succeed without the other.
This session will equip you with the tools and mindset to:

Use sales conversations to spark innovation
Position innovation as a driver of growth, not just creativity
Align sales and innovation strategies for maximum commercial impact

A Smart Way to Innovate – Design Thinking Essentials for SMEs
2025-11-11 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
Event Description
Join us for A Smart Way to Innovate – Design Thinking Essentials for SMEs, a one-hour online session designed to help business owners and leaders use design thinking to drive innovation and growth.
Delivered by Maria Cosgrove of Anu Innovation, this interactive webinar will introduce practical tools and methods to help you:

Understand your customers’ real needs
Generate new ideas with confidence
Test and refine solutions quickly
Build innovation capacity within your team

Participants will also have the opportunity to book a 30-minute one-to-one innovation advice session with Maria after the webinar.
📅 Date: Tuesday, 11th November 2025🕙 Time: 10:00am – 11:00am📍 Location: Online (register here)

Resilience, Motivation & Mindset with Stephen Redmond
2025-12-03 04:45 - 18:00 | Ludgate Hub, Townshend Street, Skibbereen, Cork, PE81T324, Ireland
As we close another year of collaboration between Ludgate Hub and the Skillnet Innovation Exchange, we invite you to a special session celebrating resilience, mindset, and motivation — qualities that power success not just in business, but in every part of life.
Our guest speaker, Stephen Redmond, is a world-record endurance athlete, author of Fastnet: The Final Challenge, and the first person in history to complete the Oceans Seven, the open-water swimming equivalent of the Seven Summits.
A proud West Cork native, Stephen will share the lessons he’s learned from years of pushing physical and mental limits — and how they apply to everyday challenges, whether you’re building a business, leading a team, or simply managing life’s currents.
You’ll learn how to:

Build resilience when facing change or uncertainty
Develop a mindset that sustains motivation and focus
Recover and refocus after setbacks
Apply endurance lessons to your work, wellbeing, and goals

Who should attend:
Entrepreneurs, employees, community members, students, innovators, and anyone looking to strengthen their mindset and motivation for the year ahead.
Sign up here
