Productivity Matters 2025 - The Building Blocks for Success

The event will be delivered in partnership with the Edinburgh Napier University,  The Productivity Institute Scotland Forum and the University of Glasgow.

Productivity Matters is a one-day, hybrid, practical, cross-sector conference for all SMEs, social enterprises, charities, and public sector organisations in Scotland.

Attendees will leave inspired and with practical tools, real examples, and fresh ideas to help them work smarter in their organisations. We will help turn productivity from what for some might be a vague concept into meaningful principles and actions that all organisations can embed in their operations to create tangible benefits whether increased efficiency, sustainability, output or staff wellbeing.

Inspired and informed by research from The Productivity Institute, we will explore how five interconnected drivers can be harnessed for business success:

• marketing and communication
• innovation and digital adoption
• leadership and management
• access to finance
• worker skills and wellbeing

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Recently, event organisers have seen an increase in people registering but not attending or cancelling in advance. This leaves us with food going to waste, as well as empty seats in the room.

We understand that sometimes it's unavoidable, but we hope that by charging a small fee for in-person attendance, we can encourage everyone who registers to either attend or cancel (with some notice!) to receive a refund (up to 14 days to the event). All proceeds from in-person ticket sales will go to support Children’s Hospices Across Scotland.

Provisional Agenda:
9.30 Registration and Networking
10.00 Welcome (Online event starts)
10.10 Keynote - Introducing the five drivers of productivity - Professor Bridgette Wessels, Co-Chair, The Productivity institute
10.25 Marketing & Communications - Case Study with Jill Walker, Director Marketing & Digital, VisitScotland
11.10 Coffee Break
11.30 Worker's Skills and Wellbeing - Workshop with Dr Nicola Murray, Coach & Consultant, Manera Coaching
12.15 Peer-to-Peer Hands-On Learning
12.35 Lunch and networking
13.00 Online networking (only for online attendees)
13.25 Leadership & Management - Case Study with Mark Scott, Co-Founder, Bella+Duke
14.10 Innovation & Technology - Workshop with John Fitzgerald, Digital Evolution Project Manager, SCVO
14.55 Coffee break
15.15 Access to Finance - Panel discussion with Mary Jane Brouwers, Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at Edinburgh Napier University, Laurence Jamieson, Team Leader – Financial Readiness, Scottish Enterprise and Carolyn Currie, CEO, Womens Enterprise Scotland
16.00 Peer-to-Peer Hands-On Learning
16.30 Close