‘Make Money While You Sleep’ was the theme of a creative business development presentation in Harare, Zimbabwe delivered by David Parrish for the British Council.
David was commissioned by the British Council Creative Economy Unit to deliver presentations and creative business workshops in Harare and Bulawayo.
In Harare, the interactive workshop ‘Creative Advantage: How to Succeed in Creative Business’ was attended by entrepreneurs working in the creative, digital, cultural and other sectors.
In Bulawayo, David worked with creative entrepreneurs in an interactive workshop entitled ‘T-Shirts and Suits: How to Combine Creativity and Business for Success’.
David also gave a presentation in Bulawayo about ‘The Business of the Arts: An Enterprise Development Workshop for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurs’.
Feedback from David’s presentations and workshops included comments such as:
“Excellent!”
“Extremely wonderful, it was a real eye-opener for me.”
“My wish is if you could come [to Zimbabwe] more often.”
“David Parrish was just fantastic. He had all the content on his fingertips.”
“We had a lot of fun in the workshop.”
“David Parrish was engaging. Which makes it fun and easy to understand.”
“We want more workshops like these. Heads up British Council”
“As a result of the workshop I am not the same person I was when I walked into the workshop in the morning!”
“David Parrish was an excellent presenter.”
“Thank you so much for being a wonderful facilitator.”
Creative businesses worldwide have achieved greater success by attending David’s creative business training workshops for entrepreneurs in the creative, cultural and digital industries.
His creative business management workshops and master classes include marketing, business strategy, financial management, leadership, pricing, commercialising intellectual property, business growth strategies and international business. (More details below.)
“People in Saudi were hungry for the workshop given by David Parrish in The 2016 Ejadah Confex. Seats in the “Business Growth Strategies and Marketing” workshop were quickly sold out. Everyone who attended left equipped with creative strategies to implement in their businesses and approaches to a more successful career. The feedback was all pleasant and everyone is looking forward to more of what David has to offer in future events.”
Lobna Hamada. Ejadah Confex. Saudi Arabia. www.ejadahcon.com
(Read other comments below from training clients and workshop participants in Spain, Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Chile, Taiwan, Norway, New Zealand and the UK.)
David has delivered his ‘Designing Your Creative Business’ workshop internationally using his DYCB Toolkit publication.
Creative business training workshops also draw on material in David’s books. Signed paperback copies of his books are sometimes included with the training workshop materials that participants take away to use in their creative businesses and cultural enterprises. Copies of books can be supplied for creative industries training workshops by arrangement.
“Creative businesses and digital startups found David’s interactive workshop to be interesting, entertaining and inspiring. From my experience as a startup founder I think his knowledge and experience will help the businesses at Biz Labs achieve both creative and commercial success.”
Ivan Dzheferov. Co-Founder at Biz Labs. Plovdiv, Bulgaria. http://bizlabs.eu/en/
David designs and delivers creative business management workshops to suit the precise needs of the workshop participants. He has a long experience of designing and delivering creative business training workshops, courses, masterclasses and in-house training courses on a range of management themes. Participants include design, media and technology businesses in the creative, cultural and digital industries, ranging from startups to high growth businesses.
“You know the workshop was great when you have to kindly ask people to leave the premises because the building is closing soon. David is the only speaker who managed to evoke such interest in young entrepreneurs, and we had a wide range of international speakers and businessmen visit us. Combination of expert knowledge, enormous experience, and unique eloquence are what make David ‘a must-have’ in every accelerator/organization/event/conference.”
Ajla Fijuljanin. Foundation Networks. Bosnia-Herzegovina. www.networks.ba