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How to Grow your Creative Enterprise

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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.” …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Ukraine

David spoke about ‘Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Age of Digitalization’ at an event in Ukraine in October 2024. He delivered an online Open Mentoring Session for students and staff at Chernihiv Polytechnic National University in Ukraine. David shared his experience of helping startups and established business in more than 60 countries around the …

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Export Readiness Workshops

David designed and delivered five online export readiness workshops in partnership with the Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board (NIPDB), The export readiness workshops are part of the Technovation Social Capacity Building Journey. David shared his expertise and experience of export readiness focusing on the topics below, using examples from his work around the world, …

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