Services

We’re here to help you get the most out of networking opportunities. Whether that’s through skills training, strategy development, or 1-2-1 coaching, or maybe a mixture of the above!

Working with...

Corporate Clients

Working with corporates of all shapes, sizes and sectors to deliver networking training and consultancy. Helping businesses improve ROI from networking activities and achieve objectives quicker. Perfect for external business development and sales, as well as encouraging internal knowledge transfer and effective relationships management.

Support Providers

We help support agencies by delivering training, consultancy and coaching to clients on their behalf. From one-off workshops, to 12 hour support packages – with years of experience delivering ERDF support we’re here to help!

Academics

We love working within HE, from undergrads to PhD’s and academic researchers we provide live and pre-recorded content to provide learners with the tools, skills, and confidence they need to get the most from networking opportunities.

Schools

Providing young people will the skills they need to effectively communicate and build relationships has never been more important! Through fun, interactive training we can help learners of all ages develop the skills and confidence they need to help with career progression, mental health, and broader social skills.

Networking Training

We provide a range of in-person and remote networking training, workshops and courses to businesses, academics and teams all over the world!

We’ll work closely with you to come up with the best training options for you and your people – we’re here to help, so feel free to get in touch for an informal chat. (We’re canny I promise!)

To speak to us about bespoke Networking Training get in touch!

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Consultancy

This could be creating a bespoke networking strategy for you to improve ROI, impact, and achieve your networking objectives. It could be offering coaching and skills development to you, or your team, to help build confidence and utilise networking opportunities. Or it could be helping you with the design and deployment of your own networking events.

If you’re not quite sure what you need, but you know you could be getting more from networking, get in touch! We’d love to have a chat and explore different ways we could work together.

We work with various support agencies across the North East so could potentially help you tap into funding to support us working together – get in touch and we’ll see how we can help.

To speak to us about Networking Consultancy get in touch!

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Public Speaking and Hosting

Having ran networking organisations all over the country we have years of experience hosting all kinds of events. If you’re looking for someone outside your organisation to host an event for staff, for clients, or for members of the public we can help.

Our founder, Jeni, has also done her fair share of public speaking, in-person and remotely, to audiences all over the world. You can download her speaker pack HERE or get in touch for more information and availability.

To speak to us about your upcoming event get in touch!

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1-2-1 Coaching

Working closely to support you through your networking journey, we offer bespoke 1-2-1 coaching over a minimum 3-month period. Meeting bi-weekly to tackle the barriers preventing you from networking successfully and confidently. We’ll attend events together (online or across the North East) to help build your confidence and apply learning, as well as developing your own unique networking strategy – this is a fantastic way for anyone looking to develop their skills and build confidence in the networking world.

If you’re nervous about networking, but not sure if coaching is for you, get in touch! We can have an informal chat to see if we might be the right fit.

To speak to us about Coaching get in touch!

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Have to admit I'd never heard of a networking strategist until I was introduced to Jeni through a mutual connection, but wow! Jeni really knows her stuff! She doesn't simply grab a handful of links from the first page of an Eventbrite search result, she really wants to get to know you and find out about your business. Clearly she puts a lot of time, thought and effort into crafting a strategy that works for you; and I'm sure even the serial networkers will discover events they've never heard of when Jeni comes back with your strategy plan, all delivered professionally and personably. Thank you so much, Jeni!

Predictably I met Jeni through networking events and this, years later, was my first chance to have her deliver a session for our students at Durham. Jeni is an outstanding speaker and she presents information about an often vague and tricky subject in a way that's not only clear and easy to understand, but also motivates you to get out and do it. The tasks were practical and engaging and from the continued attention from the students and the questions they asked it was clear that they took a huge amount away to support them with their own networking in the future. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Jeni to anyone wanting to find out more about networking and improve their own strategy and approach.

Jeni really knows what she's talking about - definitely an expert in the field of professional networking! I saw Jeni give a talk on the importance of networking. She changed my outlook completely, and as a result I changed the focus of my marketing. The result has been extraordinary. Now 90% of my business comes from professional networking, and my business has grown faster than I ever thought possible. I'm in the right rooms with the right people, and winning bigger clients and bigger contracts as a result. I genuinely cannot recommend Jeni enough for her specialised knowledge and training!

Thought provoking talk on Strategic Networking by Jeni. Fascinating insight into the Business Networking Ecosystem based upon Jeni’s extensive networking knowledge and experience, backed up with a research project by Durham University. The talk encouraged us all to think differently when attending networking events and why you should approach them with a strategy because you are investing your time and money.

Whilst it's been proven that networking can lead to business, having a strategy means that it is time well spent.

Thanks Jeni for sharing your wisdom.

Huge thanks to Jeni Smith for delivering such an engaging networking workshop, as part of Sunderland Future’s Graduate Launchpad series of live events.

It was full of great content, practical advice and tips. We look forward to having you back again soon Jeni!

Highly recommend this short course if you're interested in developing your networking strategy. And what better way to network than via a networking programme?

To anyone who maybe a little bit nervous about networking or not sure where to start, I can totally recommend Jeni Smith's course.

I've just finished last cohort and it was excellent...she got the sock puppets out...worth it just for that

Have to admit I’d never heard of a networking strategist until I was introduced to Jeni through a mutual connection, but wow! Jeni really knows her stuff! She doesn’t simply grab a handful of links from the first page of an Eventbrite search result, she really wants to get to know you and find out about your business. Clearly she puts a lot of time, thought and effort into crafting a strategy that works for you; and I’m sure even the serial networkers will discover events they’ve never heard of when Jeni comes back with your strategy plan, all delivered professionally and personably. Thank you so much, Jeni!