hire OUR CEO for speaking engagements & panel events

​Kay Kukoyi CSM FITOL is the multi award-winning CEO and Founder of Purposeful Group. Kay is on a mission to help tech entrepreneurs to start and run their businesses the SMART way - running specialist workshops and creating tailored learning programmes specifically designed for tech startup founders and digital entrepreneurs to help them avoid pitfalls and challenges as they build their businesses from scratch.

​She was named on the Financial Times Top 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in UK Tech (#IB100, 2019) and was the winner of Digital Women's Digital Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Role Model of the Year Award, and the BTA Lifetime Award for individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the technology profession (2022).

You may wish to hire Kay to speak at your event, or conference, share opinions as a member of a discussion panel, or to moderate, facilitate or host an event. Kay also judges at local and national business competitions and startup pitch events.

Kay commonly covers a range of topics related to entrepreneurship, taking a tech startup venture from "idea through to product launch," or about any of the topics covered in her books, or the topics outlined below.

Options include:

• What is innovation? Simple, yet effective ways to innovate
• Current affairs relating to the startup ecosystem and technology
• Talks for young (16-25 years old) entrepreneurs
• Talks for women, BAME, diverse and underrepresented groups on careers and "getting into tech / STEM"
• Digital skills, digital tools, employability and the modern workplace
• Early-stage startup / tech startup challenges - the entrepreneurial journey
• ​Tech for non-technical people
• Business productivity for entrepreneurs and professionals
• Gathering market research, and developing and validating business ideas
• Creating MVPs, prioritising features and creating paper, or code based prototypes (low code and no-code apps)
• Hiring and managing developers / tech staff and managing the build of a software application
• Implementing Agile practices within your business​
• Technology, software and tools for business, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship

​If you have a specific topic in mind, let us know and we'll do our best to accommodate you!

To find out more, please get in touch, or contact us using the form below.

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FROM CONFERENCE SPEAKING, TO PANEL MEMBER, TO PANEL HOST

Please get in touch if you'd like to hire Kay for your event.

British Library panel event - Inspiring Entrepreneurs, She's In Ctrl, 2023. Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon's book signing event. (Audience - 180+).
Kay was the panel host and facilitator for this event, also managing the Q&A with the audience.

​Startup 2020 entrepreneur's conference, 2020.
​Kay hosted a panel of tech entrepreneurs at the Startup 2020 Conference in London entitled: "How to start a tech business." (Audience - 100+)

Kay was a judge for the TATA Varsity Pitch Competition in 2019 & 2022.

Kay on the panel at the London Hi Tech Festival, speaking about open source tech and its pros and cons

Kay Kukoyi, International Women's day panel hosted by OneTech, 2022

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​"Kay - Really enjoyed this afternoon’s panel on how open source boosts society (Tech for All). Appreciated your contributions - taking us through some of the most interesting use cases, commercial considerations and dev frameworks."
Hi Tech Festival attendee - sent to us via LinkedIn

"Thanks for sharing your insights on open-source software and practical, structured guidelines for start-ups! Really informative and engaging."
Hi Tech Festival speaker - posted on LinkedIn

Kay Kukoyi, International Women's day panel hosted by The British Library, 2022

Kay Kukoyi CSM FITOL speaking at the SEC conference for entrepreneurs.

​​We also deliver our own tech startup workshops for incubators, accelerators and enterprise organisations, and create bespoke workshops and entire tech startup programmes from scratch to order, based on your specific requirements, including budget, duration, content, and core objectives. 

To learn about our mentoring, workshops and programmes, take a look at our list of Services.

Kay can also be hired to judge competitions and hackathons, and to mentor and provide support and guidance to founders at programmes and events. 
Please scroll down to see video footage, and photos from past events.
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To get in touch, send us a message using the contact form below, drop us a line via the web chat on this page, or visit our contact page.

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Speaker biography
(Please feel free to use this bio for your printed, and online materials when booking with us).
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Kay Kukoyi (K.N. Kukoyi CSM FITOL)
Kay Kukoyi is the award-winning founder of Purposeful Group, an entrepreneurship, technology and digital skills consultancy, and several digital academies, including Tech Startup Academy™ an international community and centre for learning for tech startup founders.
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In 2019 she was named on the official Inclusive Boards and Financial Times #IB100 List of Top 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in UK Tech.

She is a professionally trained software delivery specialist, global startup mentor, speaker, and the author of 5 books for tech startups and entrepreneurs / small business owners, including the Amazon international bestseller, Don't Hire a Software Developer Until You Read this Book. 

Kay is a tech startup mentor for the NatWest Entrepreneur Accelerator, Zinc VC, and the We in Social Tech Accelerator. She has a diploma (DiP IM) in Internet Marketing (2016), is a Certified ScrumMaster® (qualified in 2008), a qualified coach (2010), and a Fellow of The Institute of Training and Occupational Learning. 

Kay spent more than 10 years in industry in "corporate tech" as an IT Consultant, translating basic concepts into commercial software applications on multi-million pound digital projects, and has extensive experience in both leading, and working in software delivery teams on high-profile tech projects for companies including Sky News, Barclays Bank, the Government backed Money Advice Service (now Money Helper) and The SThree Group.
Kay is now on a mission to help tech entrepreneurs to start and run their tech businesses the SMART way - supporting entrepreneurs on 5 continents with bestselling books, professional mentoring, specialist workshops and tailored learning programmes.
Kay on Crunchbase. 
Kay on LinkedIn. 

Awards and recognition (8):

• Financial Times #IB100 - 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in the UK Technology Sector, 2019

Award Winner

• BTA Awards - Lifetime Award, 2022
• Winner - SME Awards - Best Digital & Technology Skills Training Service, London, 2022
• Digital Entrepreneur of the Year, 2022
• Role Model of the Year, 2022

Award Finalist
Small Awards:

• At your Service Award, 2022. Best Small Service Based Business
• Sole to Sole Award, 2022. Best Small Business Owner

Digital Women Awards:

• Digital Woman of the Year, 2022 / Top 50 Digital Women to Watch, 2022

To book Kay for podcasts, keynote speaking, panel hosting, bespoke workshops, training or all other inquiries contact us at courses[@]purposefulgroup.com.

​You can email us, arrange a chat with us, or contact us using the enquiry form below.

Information about Kay's books
Kay is the author of 5 non-fiction / business books, and 4 of which are Amazon international bestsellers, including Develop Your Idea! and Don't Hire a Software Developer Until You Read this Book, the software survival guide for entrepreneurs and tech startups looking to build commercial software from scratch in order to start, or expand a business.

Her third and fourth titles are: Don't Buy Software For Your Small Business Until You Read This Book: A guide to choosing the right software for your SME & achieving a rapid return on your investment and Entrepreneurial Espresso: 450+ business-boosting and productivity enhancing tools to take the hard work out of running your enterprise. 
Between them, the books have been best-sellers in multiple book categories in 9 countries - the UK, the US, France, Japan, India, Germany, Brazil, Canada and Australia.

Find out more about our books, and review our past events. 

You can also find out more about Kay here.