Fully endorsed by the Scale Up Institute in 2022, Scale-up Scotland’s core programme is an 18-month cohort based experience aimed at highly ambitious entrepreneurs with the potential and desire to grow sales beyond £20-£30 million.

We offer a blend of experiential, business and peer to peer learning, taking entrepreneurs through the critical components of business scale-up.Whilst the central theme across the 18 months is building leadership capability for scale; we also take a deep dive into the key drivers of scaling a business successfully.

Topics covered include: Business transformation, Strategic people planning, Leadership development, Effective Communication skills, Customer Insight, Operations management, Risk and Incident management, Fundraising, Internationalisation, Sales Negotiation, Building effective teams &
Decision making.

This programme is results oriented, delivered and supported by leading entrepreneurs, expert business practitioners and facilitators. The undoubted benefits of strong peer-to-peer learning are embedded throughout.

Participants need to demonstrate continual development both of themselves and their organisation throughout the programme. The time commitment is ten residential one and a half day events and is operated from our base at Blair Estate https://blairestate.co.ukThe programme is aimed at high potential firms headquartered in Scotland with a minimum turnover of £1m+, who can demonstrate strong year on year growth and an ambition to build a global business.

Participants need to demonstrate continual development both of themselves and their organisation throughout the programme.

The programme is heavily subsidised by the Hunter Foundation with participants contributing a fee of £6k plus VAT.

[the fee includes accommodation and meals for the residential events at Blair estate]