Something Wicked is coming to Leeds

Calling all entrepreneurial witches and wizards of Leeds

The Business Activation Tour
LEEDS
28TH OCTOBER 2026
THE LOST & FOUND | 9AM TO 5PM
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Business development beyond the business card. Fancy dress absolutely welcome.

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THIS OCTOBER

Business Ascension lands in Leeds

The first stop of The Activation Tour. Think a little magic, a little mayhem, a few cackles and plenty of business activation.

But don't mistake the theme for the purpose of the room. Underneath the witches, wizards and Wicked references, we're bringing together ambitious business owners, founders, entrepreneurs and experts for a day designed to create real movement in your business.

Not another room where you swap business cards and go home wondering what you actually got from it.

  • Not another networking event built on polite small talk.
  • Not another conference where you take pages of notes you'll never look at again.
  • And definitely not a room full of twenty minute sales pitches disguised as keynote talks.

One room.
Nine things your
business runs on.

On 28th October we take over The Lost & Found for a live business experience built around all of it, because your business doesn't grow in neat little boxes.

Business development
Sales
Identity
Leadership
Visibility
Connection
Collaboration
Personal development
Execution

THE BIT NOBODY SAYS OUT LOUD

  • 01You can have the strategy and still not execute it.
  • 02You can have an incredible offer and struggle to sell it.
  • 03You can know exactly what you should be doing and still avoid it.
  • 04You can be visible without being remembered.
  • 05You can network every month without creating one meaningful commercial relationship.
  • 06And you can consume an enormous amount of business information without anything fundamentally changing.

The Activation Tour was created to change that.

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Tickets £97. Places are intentionally limited.

Something Wicked is coming to Leeds

AND THEN THERE'S THE WICKED PART

We could have hosted a perfectly sensible business event

But where's the fun in that?

It's October. We're in The Lost & Found. And we're launching the first leg of a national tour. So we're leaning all the way in.

WitchesWizardsMagicMayhemCacklesWicked energy
Come dressed normally
Come dressed subtly
Come dressed like you've just escaped from Oz

We're not judging. The theme brings personality into a room that still has a very serious purpose: helping people build stronger businesses and stronger relationships.

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MEET YOUR LEEDS SPEAKERS

Six very different humans

Five speakers and one very special guest. Different expertise. Different perspectives. Different experiences. Because nobody needs five versions of the same speaker saying the same thing.

Vicki Chisholm

Vicki Chisholm

Founder of Business Ascension | Sales Identity & Behaviour Transformation Specialist

Vicki's work sits at the intersection of identity, behaviour, sales, business development and execution.

She'll be bringing the activation into The Activation Tour, challenging the room to look beyond another strategy and into the identity and behaviours influencing what actually happens when you try to execute it.

Expect participation. Expect uncomfortable questions. Expect things to shift. And knowing Vicki, probably expect something she hasn't put on the agenda yet.

Katie Birkett

Katie Birkett

The Business Survivalist | Founder, Wilderness of Business

Katie is a serial entrepreneur with 27 years of hands on business experience. She has built multiple six and seven figure businesses, sold her first in her twenties, and navigated the genuine realities of entrepreneurship, so she brings practical experience rather than textbook theory.

Her approach goes beyond Start, Scale, Sell. Katie works to Start, Survive, Stabilise, Thrive, so founders can build businesses that work for the life they actually want.

Jenny Connor

Jenny Connor

Cup of Life Coaching, Training & Hypnotherapy

Jenny is a specialist in Peak Human Performance, with expertise spanning physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Her work explores how we can better understand and optimise the human body and mind, with a particular focus on cellular health.

Bringing a holistic, inside out perspective to the Leeds stage, Jenny will explore how the body's natural processes shape personal performance and success, combining human biology with practical approaches people can genuinely act on.

Jen Thomas

Jen Thomas

Revitalise Coaching | Spiritual Leadership Initiator

Jen helps people strengthen self trust, navigate fear and make decisions with greater confidence. Her work focuses on the connection between intuition, personal growth and leadership, particularly when the right path is not the most logical one.

Through storytelling, humour and audience participation, Jen will explore how fear, uncertainty and self doubt influence the decisions we make in both life and business, and how to take meaningful action when certainty isn't on offer.

Dao

Dao

Filmmaker | DJ | Music Producer | Holistic Therapist

HIS TALKBeing Human In The Now

Born in Cambridge in 1979, Dao left home at 15. He has reached 47 with the help of loving guides, a touch of magic and a sense of mystery.

Guided by a clear vision, he now travels the country filming and interviewing people and events within the conscious community. His work documents this extraordinary movement and moment in time, while weaving together a network of pioneers who might help shape a blueprint for living in health and harmony with one another, with nature and with spirit.

In Leeds, Dao will share his journey, his mission and his search for pioneers in alternative ways of being, exploring and redefining what it means to be human on planet earth right now. Bridging ancient ways with the modern.

Joel Cunningham
VERY SPECIAL GUEST

Joel Cunningham

CBD & Wellbeing Practitioner, Leeds

LIVE INTERVIEWSpiritual entrepreneurship, healing and transformation

For more than a decade, Joel has dedicated himself to supporting people on their journey towards better health through CBD products and his Leeds wellbeing practice. But behind that work is a story that reaches far beyond the treatment room.

When Joel stood before a jury, some of the very people he had supported stood in the witness box to testify for him, sharing what his work had meant to their lives. What followed changed the course of his own life, and now he's ready to speak about that experience in his own words.

On 28th October, we're opening the floor to Joel for a live interview exploring spiritual entrepreneurship, healing, transformation and what happens when the work you believe in takes you somewhere you never imagined.

Who is the man behind the story? What kept him going, and what does he want the world to understand now?

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Five speakers. One special guest. One day.

Places are intentionally limited so the room itself stays part of the experience.

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Wednesday 28th October 2026. The Lost & Found, Leeds.

This isn't another business conference

We don't want you sitting in a chair for hours while somebody talks at you. We want you involved. Thinking, talking, connecting, questioning, participating, and actually doing something with what happens in the room.

Some sessions will teach you. Some will challenge you. Some will activate you. Some might make you realise you've been making something far more complicated than it ever needed to be.

AND SOMEWHERE IN THE ROOM, SOMETHING COULD CLICK

  • A decision
  • An idea
  • A collaboration
  • A new perspective
  • A conversation you've needed to have
  • Or the next move you've been circling for months

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN THE ROOM

Your Leeds experience

Eight things running through the day, all of them built to create movement rather than hand you more information.

LIVE ACTIVATIONS

Experiential sessions designed to create movement rather than simply hand you more information.

EXPERT SPEAKERS

Different perspectives across business, identity, leadership, growth and development.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Ideas, frameworks and conversations you can actually apply to your business.

MEANINGFUL CONNECTION

Dedicated opportunities to meet and build relationships with other people in the room.

INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES

You aren't coming to spend the entire event silently sitting in a chair.

NEW PERSPECTIVES

Challenge the way you've been thinking, operating and making decisions inside your business.

EXECUTION

Because knowing something and actually doing something with it are two completely different things.

COLLABORATION

The person beside you could become a client, a referral partner, a collaborator or a supplier.

THE PEOPLE ON STAGE ARE ONLY PART OF IT

Collaboration over competition

One of the biggest problems with traditional business events is that you can spend an entire day surrounded by brilliant people and barely speak to any of them.

We're changing that. Not speed networking for the sake of collecting contacts. Not awkwardly pitching to somebody who hasn't asked. Real conversations.

We can't manufacture those relationships. But we can build a room where they're far more likely to happen.

  • A client
  • A referral partner
  • A podcast guest
  • A speaker
  • Somebody who says one sentence that changes how you see everything
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THERE'S SOMETHING WE HAVEN'T TOLD YOU YET

Business Ascension has been changing behind the scenes

  • The vision has grown
  • The ecosystem is expanding
  • The Hubs are growing
  • The Activation Tour is beginning

And Vicki isn't building the next chapter alone.

At Leeds, we'll be revealing Vicki's new business partner.

You've probably seen the Glinda. You've probably seen the mysterious, faceless Elphaba. On 28th October, the face gets revealed, and you'll hear exactly what's coming next for Business Ascension.

Who is Vicki's partner in crime? You'll find out in Leeds.

WHO IS THIS FOR

You don't need to fit a particular business box to belong here

Business Ascension is intentionally not built for one gender, one industry or one stage of business. What matters is that you're interested in developing yourself, your business and the relationships around it.

FoundersEntrepreneursCoachesConsultantsExperts Service businessesCreativesAgency ownersSales & BD Emerging ownersEstablished leadersSpeakersPurpose led businesses

THIS IS PROBABLY YOU IF

  • You're tired of consuming business information without implementing enough of it.
  • You want to meet ambitious people without enduring painfully transactional networking.
  • You know there's another level available, but something isn't translating into execution.
  • You want new ideas, new perspectives and a wider network.
  • You want to explore genuine collaborations.
  • You want to develop the person behind the business as much as the business itself.
  • Or you've spent far too long building your business behind a laptop and need to get back into a room with people.

Fair. Come to Leeds.

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THE DETAILS

Business Ascension, The Activation Tour, Leeds
DATE
Wednesday
28 October 2026
TIME
9am to 5pm
VENUE
The Lost & Found
Greek Street, Leeds
THEME
Wicked
Fancy dress welcome
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LIMITED PLACES

ADMIT ONE · LEEDS · 28.10.26

£97

Early bird has now closed. One ticket, one full day in the room.

  • Full day access, 9am to 5pm
  • Live business activations
  • All five expert speakers
  • A live interview with our very special guest, Joel Cunningham
  • Interactive experiences and connection sessions
  • Business Ascension announcements
  • The reveal of Vicki's new business partner
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Places are intentionally limited. This isn't designed to become an anonymous conference room filled with hundreds of people.

Your ticket options

One ticket, one full day in the room. Every option includes everything on the left.

Early bird (now closed)£50
Full day ticket£97
Speaker code ticket£35

With two weeks to go and places intentionally limited, booking now is the easiest way to make sure you have a seat in Leeds.

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BEFORE YOU ASK

Everything you were
about to email us

Not at all. Come in full Oz, come in a hat and call it done, or come in exactly what you would wear to any other business event. Plenty will do all three. Nobody is judging, and nobody is left out.

Doors open at 9am and we finish at 5pm. Arrive with a few minutes to spare so you can get a drink and settle in before we start, because the first session sets up the rest of the day.

The Lost & Found, Greek Street, right in the centre of Leeds. The city centre car parks are all within a short walk, and Leeds station is close enough to walk from if you are coming by train.

We will send full travel and parking details in your joining email.

A good portion of the room comes alone, and this is built for exactly that. There are structured moments through the day designed to get you talking to people, so you are never left standing at the edge wondering who to approach.

Refreshments are provided across the day. We will confirm exactly what is included, and ask about any dietary requirements, in your joining email once you have booked.

Something to write with, business cards if you use them, and an open mind. The activations work best when you come ready to take part rather than observe.

Get in touch as early as you can and we will do what we can to help. Full terms are on the checkout page.

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Still got a question? Message us on Instagram and we will come straight back to you.

DON'T COME FOR ANOTHER DAY OF INFORMATION

Come because you want something to move

Come to meet people.

Come to challenge your thinking.

Come to develop your business.

Come to experience the activations.

Come dressed as a witch if the mood takes you.

Just don't come planning to sit silently at the back all day.

Yes. I want to be in the room

Leeds. 28th October. Something Wicked is coming.

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THE UK TOUR

September 2026
to March 2027

A UK touring business experience bringing business development, human connection and opportunity into cities across the country. Leeds is where this next chapter begins.

  • Leeds28 OCT 2026
  • Newcastle20 NOV 2026
  • London2 DEC 2026
  • Stratford-upon-Avon20 JAN 2027
  • Bristol21 JAN 2027
  • Sussex10 FEB 2027
  • Manchester17 MAR 2027
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