Supersonic Startup

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Supersonic Startup are a dynamic duo who support people with additional barriers into self-employment.

We work with larger organisations, such as councils, to ensure that our participants can experience their supersonic journey with us for free!

We also provide a unique management development programme for corporates, a pioneering virtual and augmented reality training solution and an inspiring enterprise programme for young people.

Our Services

Self-employment

training course

We provide a three day whole enchilada face to face or online self-employment workshop programme. This includes a comprehensive all bells and whistles workbook, confidence building, ongoing peer to peer and email support, and all business templates necessary

to set up a thriving business that

flourishes to the moon and back. We can also guarantee that your participants will actually enjoy the experience, unlike other business courses we don't care to mention ;)

Management development programme

We train managers to become mentors to individuals with additional barriers in the local community who need support, advice and encouragement to start their own business. This is an out of this world progressive programme, that will give your staff so much more than your usual run of the mill kind of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) project.

Virtual and augmented

reality training solutions

We offer an augmented and virtual reality interactive experience, to take the delivery of your content to the stars and beyond. Our pioneering, innovative, and easy to implement solutions can be used by any business, with our technological expertise.

Enterprise programme

for young people

In partnership with 'Win the Day Training', a social enterprise that teaches and inspires young entrepreneurs. Centred around selling and marketing mineral water, the programme leaves young people with hands-on experience in creating a vivaciously viable product and taking it to market.

About

At Supersonic Startup we strive to be the best self-employment training provider we can be. We specialise in helping people overcome barriers to set up their own businesses and transform their lives, by providing revolutionary results based-learning and ground-breaking technology. We inspire, teach and mentor individuals to realise their supersonic dreams.

We recognise that people with additional barriers have what it takes to start up on their own and become their own boss, but are often intimidated by mainstream business support
Our research led us to run a programme that is practical, inclusive and values confidence building and self-esteem, as much as the practical steps to starting up on your own
With the right support, self-employment is a fantabulous option for ex-offenders restricted by disclosure in the traditional job market, lone parents who can manage their work around childcare and people with mental or physical disabilities who can manage their work around their condition
Not only do we provide perfectly practical business support, but we know it is essential to build confidence and self-esteem for people to flourish
Our highly qualified and friendly business advisors, fully understand the barriers participants face and we use tried and tested techniques to help them overcome the many inner challenges they can come up against
We are aware that mainstream business support is either too expensive or not fit for purpose for this client group, so we work with you to provide and facilitate the training and support required to help them empower their lives.

Steve Saul - Social Media Producer (BBC Comedy Online, Britain’s Got Talent, EastEnders, The Great British Bake Off, LEGO, Microsoft)

“I never thought I’d leave a course about business planning so pumped to make a plan of my own.”

Peter, course

participant, Wembley

"Phil and Benna are the Starsky & Hutch of vocational training. Simple no nonsense, practical guide to self-employment, delivered clearly, with humour and empathy."

Course participant, Brighton

"It was amazing! I learnt so much and feel ready to be self-employed which I never would've tried if I wasn't accepted for this course. It's been truly life changing."

Meet the Team

Director

Phil Ashford

I am an experienced and accredited business adviser with a background in both the private and public sector, specialising in pre-start up business advice for people with additional barriers. I have lectured in schools, colleges and have delivered enterprise awareness programmes with underprivileged teenagers throughout Sussex. I have experience at a senior level at Panasonic UK, The Pensions Regulator, University of Brighton and digital marketing agency, Site Visibility.

I am the former director of the East Sussex Gateway and have taken part in the NEWCEP steering group and the City Skills and Employment Group in Brighton and Hove. I also lecture at German universities on mentoring.

I have been a Growth Champion for the Thames Valley Growth Hub, Board member of the National Enterprise Network. I also lecture at German universities on mentoring.

I have a MBA, a Diploma in Performance Coaching, am a Prince 2 Practitioner and a SFEDI Accredited Business Adviser.

I am a registered Growth Accelerator coach, PTTLS qualified and Enhanced DBS checked.

Director

Benna McCartney

I am a qualified coach who trained with the Coaching Academy and has run a successful coaching business since 2003, specialising in confidence and self-esteem building and effectively managing major life changes. I worked with Chichester College as a Community Business Coach, helping unemployed individuals start up their own businesses. I am well versed in coaching offenders, ex-offenders, long-term unemployed and others with additional barriers.

Research has shown that it is very difficult to go into self-employment without a solid foundation to work from on a personal level, and helping to build this is where my strongest talents lie. My methodology is dependent on looking at each client’s specific life experience, to determine what kind of powerful questioning techniques will be best suited.

Alongside Phil I have worked with over 6000 start ups, won 3 awards and I am a powerful advocate of female entrepreneurs.

I am an experienced entrepreneur who has run eight of my own businesses in total since leaving college at the age of 18. I am PTTLS qualified and Enhanced DBS checked. I am also a singer in my spare time.

Contact

Supersonic Startup

Tel:

07740 022 797

Email: info@supersonicstartup.com

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