On 17 October 2026, I stepped onto the stage at TEDx Trenčín in Slovakia to give a new talk: You Can Have It Both Ways. The event’s theme was Curiosity, and my talk explored a question that has increasingly fascinated me: How can we use curiosity to design—or redesign—a life that works for us? This …
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Pricing Workshop
David will deliver an interactive Pricing Workshop for creative entrepreneurs in July 2025. The workshop will cover three perspectives on pricing: – Calculating all the costs involved, including your time and business overheads. – Pricing in relation to customers’ perception and market positioning. – Pricing the benefits, options and intellectual property. Some additional online resources …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Investment Demystified Masterclass
David delivered an online Investment Demystified Masterclass for Creative Entrepreneurs in Greater Manchester on 21 June 2023. The fully-funded 3-hour Investment Demystified Masterclass was designed to prepare Creative SMEs and Freelancers for the investment process. Course Outline: An interactive online event, giving participants maximum opportunity to learn from the presenters, and each other, with questions, …
Astana International Forum Speaker
David was an Astana International Forum Speaker in Kazakhstan. He shared his international experience of the creative economy with delegates from countries in the region and worldwide. The Astana International Forum plays an essential role in bringing together leaders and experts to identify practical solutions to some of the world’s most pressing topics. In the …