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About Us
WHO DO WE SERVE?
Purposeful Group is an award-winning centre for learning. We support:
OUR SERVICES
Purposeful Group is an award-winning centre for learning. We support:
- Entrepreneurs, including tech, and digital startups, freelancers & small business owners
- Digital learners, career starters and career builders embarking on or seeking to build careers in tech or digital industries
OUR SERVICES
- We design and deliver training and offer consultancy focused on 3 pillars - Entrepreneurship, Technology and Digital skills & Employability
- We have a range of best-selling books available via Amazon, iTunes, Good reads and Barnes & Noble
- We offer professional business and career coaching and mentoring services
- We have a portfolio of more than 35 popular workshops and specialist programmes for tech startups, entrepreneurs and digital learners
- We manage several communities with more than 1.500 entrepreneurs worldwide
- Our founder can be hired for conference speaking, to judge at startup competitions, as a panel member, or to lead a panel discussion
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OUR STORY After working in an internal IT department, our founder Kay took the next step in her career and became a freelance IT Consultant, working in and leading teams delivering high profile multi-million pound web and mobile projects for household name-companies. At the same time, she was running not 1, but 2 side-hustles alongside a demanding career! After hearing horror stories of tech founders experiencing a variety of issues, stressors and struggles, Kay decided to set up Purposeful Group to help people transition from employees to entrepreneurs the SMART way! She wrote the "software survival guide": Don't Hire a Software Developer Until You Read this Book, to help these founders. The book became an Amazon international bestseller in multiple book categories in Amazon marketplaces in 7 countries. Entrepreneurs from all over the world from Australia to the USA wrote to her saying how much they loved the book, and some asked her to work with them and be their mentor, and that's how Purposeful Group was born! |
OUR MISSION Whether you're starting a business, or building a digital career, our mission is to help you achieve rapid results - the SMART WAY! We champion the upward mobility, personal and professional development of people from all backgrounds. We believe in delivering high-quality support which leads to progress and successful outcomes. We make it quicker, easier and safer for people to get started, and we're genuinely passionate about creating positive change and helping people achieve their goals in a warm and welcome environment. OUR VISION
Our vision is to support 50,000 entrepreneurs and digital learners. OUR NAME
We are called Purposeful Group because of the multiple meanings of the word purposeful and the relevance of this for entrepreneurs and digital learners in being determined and focused in achieving their goals. For founders it is also about creating products that are i) useful, ii) meaningful and iii) make a difference. |
OUR VALUES
UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Purposeful Group is committed to contributing to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals.
We are focused on playing our part in delivering on Goals 4, 8, 9 and 10. These goals are connected with improving quality education, increasing decent work and economic growth, innovation, and reducing income inequalities.
We work across communities to deliver education related to technology, digital skills and entrepreneurship / self-employment.
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Our digital skills training improves the chances of young and older adults to gain quality employment, earn a good wage and contribute to the tech and digital economies.
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We help new and aspiring entrepreneurs around the world to innovate, and to start, and build their own businesses. Our specialism lies in helping tech founders to rapidly create innovative digital products.
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Working with diverse groups reduces inequalities and increases economic well-being, by opening up new opportunities in entrepreneurship, and the technology and digital industries to more people.
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Statistics
- 8000+ founders, tech & digital startups & SMEs supported worldwide
- 1500+ community of entrepreneurs, investors and technologists
- 7 Award nods – 4 wins, 3 finals reached, recognition from the Financial Times
- 10+ years in the tech industry, guiding clients from “idea to launch”
- 14 countries where we’ve supported customers, across 6 continents
- 35+ workshops and 70+ hours of quality content for founders and digital learners
- 5 books for SMEs & entrepreneurs, 4 Amazon bestsellers
- 4x 90-day “fast-track” entrepreneurship and digital skills programmes available
Our Logos
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Our Books
Our books have appeared on Amazon bestseller lists in the UK, US, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Canada next to Tony Robbins Awaken the Giant Within, Eric Ries's The Lean Startup, Peter Thiel's Zero to One, Gary Keller's The One Thing and Tim Ferriss's books The 4 Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans.
They have also ranked beside books including Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, and Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad.
They have also ranked beside books including Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, and Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad.
Our Clients & Where We've Been Featured
We have delivered on projects sponsored by NESTA, Barclays Bank, Waltham Forest Council, The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
You can find a selection of our other clients and places we've been featured below.
You can find a selection of our other clients and places we've been featured below.
Awards & recognition
AWARD WINS
BTA Awards
Kay was the winner of the BTA Lifetime Award for individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the technology profession (2022).
Kay was the winner of the BTA Lifetime Award for individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the technology profession (2022).
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Digital Women Awards
In October, 2022 Kay won both the Digital Entrepreneur of the Year and Digital Women's Role Model of the Year awards.
In October, 2022 Kay won both the Digital Entrepreneur of the Year and Digital Women's Role Model of the Year awards.
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SME Business Elite Awards
Purposeful Group was awarded Best Digital & Technology Skills Training Service, London by SME News' Business Elite Awards 2022. |
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Top 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in UK Tech
In 2019 Kay was named on the official Inclusive Boards, Inclusive Tech Alliance and Financial Times #IB100 List of Top 100 Most Influential BAME Leaders in UK Tech.
BOOK AWARDS
Bookauthority is the world's leading website for nonfiction book recommendations. The site scans the web for notable books on various topics and collects different signals about each book (public mentions, recommendations, ratings, sentiment and sales history) and uses its algorithm to rate each book. Don’t Hire a Software Developer Until You Read this Book, written by K.N. Kukoyi has made it onto several of Bookauthority's "best lists", including:
Bookauthority is the world's leading website for nonfiction book recommendations. The site scans the web for notable books on various topics and collects different signals about each book (public mentions, recommendations, ratings, sentiment and sales history) and uses its algorithm to rate each book. Don’t Hire a Software Developer Until You Read this Book, written by K.N. Kukoyi has made it onto several of Bookauthority's "best lists", including:
- Best Startup eBooks For Beginners
- Best Software Development book for Beginners
- Best Business Development book for Beginners!
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AWARD FINALISTS
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Digital Women Awards
Our founder, Kay was a finalist for Digital Woman of the Year, and appeared in the Digital Women's most prestigious and competitive e-book of finalists, entitled 50 Digital Women to Watch. |
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Small Business Britain Awards
In 2022, Purposeful Group was selected as a finalist in multiple categories in the national Small Awards competition run by Small Business Britain, and was shortlisted for the:
In 2022, Purposeful Group was selected as a finalist in multiple categories in the national Small Awards competition run by Small Business Britain, and was shortlisted for the:
- At your Service Award for best small UK service business, recognising the best small service businesses in the UK, with a track record of serving their target customer set.
- Sole to Sole Award for best self-employed UK small business owner.
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Our Testimonials
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"This session has been therapeutic, as my ideas have all been in my head up until now... You will be good for my business because you're knowledgeable, and someone who can guide me, guide the conversation, and guide my thinking."
Mentoring client, UK
"I've moved from possible idea... to finding my market... to finding my specific 'need' to fill - to collaborating with my market and gaining invaluable feedback as well as research. I'm currently in the 'Prototyping' phase of my project and it's moving quickly. I feel confident in the results gained... and the future. Can't say enough."
Aaron, USA. Reader of our books
"This session has been therapeutic, as my ideas have all been in my head up until now... You will be good for my business because you're knowledgeable, and someone who can guide me, guide the conversation, and guide my thinking."
Mentoring client, UK
"I've moved from possible idea... to finding my market... to finding my specific 'need' to fill - to collaborating with my market and gaining invaluable feedback as well as research. I'm currently in the 'Prototyping' phase of my project and it's moving quickly. I feel confident in the results gained... and the future. Can't say enough."
Aaron, USA. Reader of our books
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You can find more reviews and testimonials here.
Contact Information
Kay Kukoyi CSM FITOL, Chief Executive Officer
Kay Kukoyi is a software delivery specialist, author, speaker, global tech startup mentor, and the CEO and Founder of Purposeful Group.
She is a multi-award winning entrepreneur with a background in sales, market research and technology, who has started multiple businesses from scratch.
Kay is a Certified ScrumMaster®, CSM® and qualified coach and marketer with over a decade of experience leading and working in teams transforming concepts into digital products and services.
Kay has been named by the Financial Times and Inclusive Boards as one of the #IB100 top 100 BAME leaders in the UK technology sector. She has taught technology and entrepreneurship at degree level at the National College of Digital Skills. She has written 5 books for entrepreneurs and SMEs, including the Amazon international bestseller, Don't Hire a Software Developer Until You Read this Book.
To book Kay for podcasts, keynote speaking, panel hosting, bespoke workshops, training or all other inquiries contact us at courses[@]purposefulgroup.com.
Kay's LinkedIn profile can be viewed here.