Finalists for Manchester’s newest awards programme have been announced today – with 50 local individuals and businesses in the running to become the top ten, one of which will also be crowned the Ultimate Northern Gamechanger.

How many times have you been invited to what sounds like a truly insightful, informative, business event… only to find that the panel is made up exclusively of white men?

Manchester-based business development consultancy, Elevate, has announced its upcoming Northern Sustainability Summit, which is set to take place at Manchester Central on Monday 12th June 2023.

Back in January we launched Elevate the Conversation to find and recognise diverse speakers from all sectors. We were inundated with nominations and are so grateful to everyone who put themselves or someone else forward. It means we now have a wonderful long list that will continue to add to and maintain, so please do keep submitting recommendations.

I launched Elevate, a business development consultancy, with my business partner Katie in 2020 after we were both made redundant during the pandemic. It was a big risk but we haven’t looked back since.

Elevate celebrated the launch of their new ‘Elevate the Conversation’ platform at King St. Townhouse on the evening of Wednesday 25th January. Tackling the issue of diversity head on, the company last night issued a call out for people to recommend and champion new and engaging speakers, to provide the north with an ever-evolving list of spokespeople to help solve the ongoing diversity issue across the region.