Resilient Business Breakfast for Laois SMEs: Practical Actions for Growth in the Current Environment

On Tuesday, 20th October, The Killeshin Hotel, Portlaoise, will host a breakfast session designed for SMEs across Laois who want practical insight, clearer direction, and stronger confidence in how they approach growth in the current environment. The focus of the session will be on helping business owners and managers think more clearly about resilience, opportunity, and decision-making in a way that is commercially grounded and immediately useful. Rather than offering broad theory, the session will bring together practical business perspective, real-world examples, and clear next steps that you can apply within your own business.

Susan Hayes Culleton’s style is characterised by stories of experience from over 16 years in business, doing business in various countries around the world and pivoting into new business models while engaging with a domestic and international entrepreneurial ecosystem along the way.

 What you will learn

• How to think about resilience through the lens of a model rather than digging deep for grit
• How to identify practical growth opportunities inside their own business rather than staying stuck in day-to-day pressure
• How Priming Grants and Business Expansion Grants can support growth, and how to approach them with more practicality and confidence
• How AI can be used in realistic, useful ways in an SME context that can really deliver productivity in a cyber secure environment
• How supports such as Enterprise Europe Network can help with competitiveness, partnerships, ideas, potential export and longer-term business development

 About Susan

Susan Hayes Culleton, CFA is Managing Director of Hayes Culleton, presenter of Taking Stock on Newstalk, author of seven books, and a speaker and MC who works across Ireland, Europe and the US. Her work spans economics and markets, financial literacy, education, and business development, and she is known for bringing energy, substance, and real-world commercial perspective to business audiences. This makes her particularly well placed to deliver a session that is practical, relevant, and engaging for established SME owners and managers.