David Parrish answers questions about business growth for creative enterprises. This video is part of an interactive Business Formula workshop designed and delivered by David for the CASE Malta programme in April 2025. David talks about business growth in terms of your own unique definition of success. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) can be turnover, profit …
Category: Creative Entrepreneurship
Creative Business Formula workshop
David delivered an interactive Creative Business Formula workshop for participants in the CASE Malta project. The workshop focused on key elements of David’s “Create Your Own Business Formula” methodology and provided time for participants to reflect on the development of their creative enterprises. The Creative Business Formula workshop themes included: – Defining Success. What is …
Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce Speaker
David was a speaker at the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce conference in April 2025, which included a Spotlight on the Creative Industry. The Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce invited as an expert in the Creative and Cultural Industries, working worldwide as a keynote speaker, trainer, business adviser and author of two books and other publications for …
Ikigai for Success in Creative Business
Ikigai (生き甲斐, lit. ’a reason for being’) is a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose, a reason for living. It can be used by creative entrepreneurs to design your unique business formula to achieve both creative and commercial success. Everyone wants to be successful. And when I ask creative …
WORTH Partnership Projects Mentor
David is a mentor to the WORTH Partnership Projects. The WORTH Partnership Projects website features David and refers to his “firsthand knowledge in leading and managing creative and cultural businesses”. It continues: “Through mentoring, training, and consultancy projects, he applies his expertise and experience to help creative and cultural enterprises in becoming even more successful.” …
How to Find Your Niche as an Artist
As an emerging artist, or a creative startup, it can be stressful in the early days, until you find your niche and you can make a living by doing what you love. Diellza Ilgner is a Malta-based transdisciplinary performance artist working across theatre, multimedia, and audience-engaged art. Her work addresses social themes like migration, disability, …
Creative Leadership in Malta
David delivered a workshop on Creative Leadership in Malta in February 2025. His Creative Leadership workshop is designed especially for creative, cultural and arts enterprises. Working in partnership with In Place of War, in collaboration with Arts Council Malta, David helps artists and creatives to become even more successful through CASE Malta, the Creative and …
How to get the Important Things done
How to get the Important Things done, when there just isn’t enough time? It’s too easy to be busy doing all those smaller and more urgent tasks and never find time to do the big important things. Our excuse is that there just isn’t enough time. “We always have time enough, if we will but …
Artificial Intelligence and Creativity
David gave a presentation on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity to a conference in Kazakhstan in November 2024. Entitled “Creativity in the Era of A.I.”, he spoke about the creative industries and Artificial Intelligence. The conference was organised by the Ulttyq Ustaz Online Academy and the event was the Fourth Annual School of Rectors. The programme …
International Marketing Workshop
David designed and delivered an International Marketing workshop in Birmingham in November 2024. The event for creative businesses was organised by Creative UK West Midlands as part of the Create Growth Programme and took place at Birmingham Open Media. David’s International Marketing workshop session covered: – The theory and practice of how creative businesses market …