Curious Conversations • Yorkshire

Business learning over a cuppa

A monthly gathering for curious business leaders. Real stories, candid talks, and ideas worth taking back to your desk.

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Fighting for Change: Jack Sunderland and The Training Cave

Thursday, 17 September 2026 • 09:00 • Everyman, Harrogate.

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A key theme every month and guests experts.

Every third Thursday of the month • 09:00-11:00 • Everyman, Harrogate.

About the series

More than networking.

Connect Over a Cuppa is a monthly event for business owners, leaders and curious thinkers who believe that learning and connection go hand in hand. Each gathering brings a thoughtful speaker, an open room, and the kind of conversations that don’t end when the tea does.

Learn

A headline speaker each month sharing real research, real stories.

Connect

Genuine, unhurried introductions over a proper Yorkshire brew.

Reflect

Space to think about what it means for your business this week.

Grow

Many guests go on to deeper work with Biskit’s team programmes.

Learn

A headline speaker each month sharing real research, real stories.

Connect

Genuine, unhurried introductions over a proper Yorkshire brew.

Reflect

Space to think about what it means for your business this week.

Grow

Many guests go on to deeper work with Biskit’s team programmes.

MONTHLY • YORKSHIRE

“The events I’d want to attend”

Edward Ryder • Founder

Upcoming events

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event • NOVEMBER 2026

From corporate career to outdoor entrepreneur

  • Thursday, 19 November 2026
  • 09:00 – 11:00
  • Everyman, Harrogate

Speaker: Emma Shipley

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event • OCTOBER 2026

Why do intelligent business leaders sometimes make poor business decisions?

  • Thursday, 15 October 2026
  • 09:00 – 11:00
  • Everyman, Harrogate

Speaker: Keith RIce

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Fighting for Change: Jack Sunderland and The Training Cave

  • Thursday, 17 September 2026
  • 09:00 – 11:00
  • Everyman, Harrogate

Speaker: Jack Sunderland

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Themes we explore

Ideas that matter to your business.

From the science of leadership to the texture of an honest founder story — these are the conversations we host, in plain language.

01

Leadership & the science of being human

02

The craft of leading a business

03

Sustainability in practice

04

Neuroscience & business behaviour

05

The energy of a team

06

Strategy meets founder stories

07

AI & the future of work

08

Marketing & building an audience

09

Social enterprise & cooperatives

10

Curiosity, reinvention & growth

11

Authenticity at work

12

Innovation & emerging practice

Past speakers

People who’ve shared their story with us.

SM

Sue Moul

CFO to multiple businesses across Yorkshire

ST

Simone Talfourd

Adventurer, speaker and world record holder

RP

Rebecca Pick

Founder, Pick Protection

JT

Jo-Leigh Thompson

Director, Foxglove Care

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Insights

What we’ve learned.

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Mindset

What business leaders can learn from an adventure mindset.

Adventurer Simone Talford reveals how business leaders build resilience, drive innovation, and unlock growth by embracing uncertainty and taking action.

Simone Talford • 5 min read

Leadership

Building a business that can thrive without you.

Founder Johanna Leigh-Thompson shares how scaling a business successfully requires delegating decisions, embedding values, and building leadership capacity beyond yourself.

Johanna Leigh-Thompson • 6 min read

Leadership

Leadership lessons I learned before I was old enough to vote.

Working as a teenage tourism employee taught Edward Ryder that great leadership empowers people, fosters culture, and drives long-term commercial success.

Edward Ryder • 7 min read

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“I wanted to create the kind of business event I’d actually look forward to attending — warm, intelligent and genuinely useful.”

Edward Ryder • Founder of Biskit Ltd and host of Connect Over A Cuppa

Beyond the events

Consultancy, leadership & outdoor learning.

Many guests go on to work with Biskit Ltd on longer programmes – for their leadership teams, their culture, and their next chapter.

Explore Biskit’s work

Leadership development

Programmes that build the steady, generous leaders teams want to follow.

In-house facilitation

Honest, well-run sessions that move difficult conversations forward.

Outdoor learning

Yorkshire-rooted retreats where ideas land and teams reset.

Stay in the loop

Never miss an
event.

One short, thoughtful email each month with the upcoming speaker and takeaways from Connect Over a Cuppa. No spam.

Hosted in Harrogate · Connect Over a Cuppa is a Biskit Ltd initiative.

  • AI & the future of work

  • Curiosity, reinvention & growth

  • Neuroscience & business behaviour

  • The craft of leading a business

  • The energy of a team

  • Marketing & building an audience

  • Authenticity at work