hire kay for PUBLIC TALKS & speaking engagements
Kay Kukoyi is on a mission to help tech entrepreneurs to start and run their tech businesses the SMART way - running specialist workshops and creating tailored learning programmes specifically designed for tech startup founders to help them avoid pitfalls and challenges as they build their businesses from scratch.
She has been named as one of the Financial Times #IB100 Top 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in UK Tech.
If you would like to hire Kay to speak at your event in relation to getting 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, please get in touch, or contact us using the form below.
Option include:
If you have a specific topic in mind, let us know and we'll do our best to accommodate you!
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 the Products and services menu at the top of this page.
Kay can also be hired to judge competitions and hackathons, and to mentor and provide support and guidance to founders at programmes and events.
Contact us, send us a message using the contact form below, or book a free 30 minute appointment to chat with us and find out more about our services.
Speaker biography (please feel free to use this bio for your printed, and online materials when booking with us)
Kay Kukoyi (K.N. Kukoyi CSM FITOL)
Kay Kukoyi is the founder of Purposeful Group, a business, technology and training consultancy, and the Tech Startup Academy™ an international community and centre for learning for tech startup founders.
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 tech 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 an Enterprise Nation small business advisor, and a tech startup mentor for WeWork Labs, 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), qualified coach (2010), and is 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 budgets of over £5 million, and has extensive experience in both leading, and working in software delivery teams on high-profile tech projects for companies including Sky News 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 books, mentoring, specialist workshops and tailored learning programmes.
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/kay-kukoyi
You can email us, arrange a chat with us, or contact us using the enquiry form below.
She has been named as one of the Financial Times #IB100 Top 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in UK Tech.
If you would like to hire Kay to speak at your event in relation to getting 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, please get in touch, or contact us using the form below.
Option include:
- Talks for young (16-25 years old) tech entrepreneurs, young women, and underrepresented groups "getting into STEM"
- Developing business ideas
- Events for BAME and female tech entrepreneurs
- Early-stage tech startup challenges
- Gathering market research, and developing and validating business ideas
- Planning a tech startup
- Creating MVPs, prioritising features and creating paper, or code based prototypes
- Marketing for startups / tech startups
- Hiring and managing developers / tech staff and managing the build of a software application
- Selecting software for business use
- Implementing Agile practices within your business
- Using software for competitive advantage
- Launching your product and caring for your customers
- Useful tech and tools for business owners
- The entrepreneurial journey
If you have a specific topic in mind, let us know and we'll do our best to accommodate you!
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 the Products and services menu at the top of this page.
Kay can also be hired to judge competitions and hackathons, and to mentor and provide support and guidance to founders at programmes and events.
Contact us, send us a message using the contact form below, or book a free 30 minute appointment to chat with us and find out more about our services.
Speaker biography (please feel free to use this bio for your printed, and online materials when booking with us)
Kay Kukoyi (K.N. Kukoyi CSM FITOL)
Kay Kukoyi is the founder of Purposeful Group, a business, technology and training consultancy, and the Tech Startup Academy™ an international community and centre for learning for tech startup founders.
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 tech 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 an Enterprise Nation small business advisor, and a tech startup mentor for WeWork Labs, 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), qualified coach (2010), and is 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 budgets of over £5 million, and has extensive experience in both leading, and working in software delivery teams on high-profile tech projects for companies including Sky News 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 books, mentoring, specialist workshops and tailored learning programmes.
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/kay-kukoyi
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 Tech Startup Academy™ in our press release.