Alex Depledge MBE is a serial tech entrepreneur and the current CEO of Resi.co.uk - the UK’s largest residential architectural practice designed to help UK homeowners renovate and extend their homes. Before Resi.co.uk, Alex founded Hassle.com, Europe’s largest domestic cleaning marketplace. Responsible for taking Hassle.com from inception to over £8 million turnover in under two years, Alex also negotiated its subsequent sale for €32m.
In addition to her entrepreneurial success, Alex is a TV and radio commentator and sits on the board of Persimmon Homes. She has also won a string of awards, including Emerging Technology Scale-up 2022 at the Enterprise Awards, The Barclay’s Entrepreneur Award for Start-Up of the Year 2020 and was made an MBE for services to the sharing economy in 2016.
An established business has customers, a brand, data, a knowledgeable workforce, and, in most cases, money. Yet in every sector, we see them being challenged by start-ups, which have only two things going for them: investment and speed. They shouldn’t win, but everywhere you look, they are. In this keynote, Alex Depledge MBE looks at what and how you can learn from start-ups and ways to beat at their own game.
Many established businesses are ripe for disruption, to enhance their longevity and ensure their survival, but become fearful and stop dead when it comes to actioning changes. However, by failing to move forward, businesses often see their long-term prospects hit hard and growth stymied. In this talk, Alex Depledge MBE looks at the key triggers in recognising the need and timing to innovate and disrupt standard business models along with the key markers to help determine successful innovation.
The stats don’t lie: female-founded businesses receive less than 2% of investors' capital, and there are only 7 female CEOs in the FTSE 100. The spotlight has been on this issue for over twenty years, so why haven’t things improved? Have We ever considered that women ourselves might be part of the problem? In This keynote, Alex Depledge MBE discusses what we can each do to make sure that women are heard, get that pay rise, and, most importantly, ensure workplace equality. Alex’s journey shows that being a woman in the workforce can be a superpower and how to use this power to your own and others' advantage.
