Keep Your Head up and Focus on the Results You Want

By Jon Burnell

We recently asked one of the most successful exporters we know for his top tips to help guide us all through what may be a challenging future and he said “Don’t look down as all you will see is your feet, keep your head up and look to the stars.” In times of crisis and … Continued

Black History Month – Role Model Hero

By Jon Burnell

The series was created because Urban Synergy knows and understands how important positive role models are to lift young people and allow them to dream big. Having a variety of Role Models really exposes young people to the various career pathways available to them and how to access them. Read Lyca’s interview here.

Evaluating new Business Locations

By Jon Burnell

In our experience, leaders in successful, fast-growth companies often wonder if they could grow faster and more efficiently, with access to resources outside of their existing business locations. Questions you may ask yourself: You may be evaluating expansion options and wonder which location would be best for their business. Perhaps the pandemic or indeed Brexit … Continued

Business leaders team up to create a more ethnically diverse city

By Jon Burnell

UK registered charity, created in 2007, Urban Synergy is an award-winning early intervention mentoring charity that helps over 1,000 young people each year between 10-18 years of age reach their full potential, through outcome-focused mentoring programmes and inspirational seminars. This diverse Corporate Advisory Board will enable the charity to grow successfully by bringing new expertise and experience as well as … Continued

Effective Practices for Sustaining Mental Wellbeing

By Jon Burnell

This environment could lead to ‘worst case scenario’ projections about what is happening and how it might impact us. When you think about it, your entire experience of life is created in your mind. Environmental information streams in through your senses and your brain filters, computes and organises that information to make meaning of the … Continued

NewFlex launches new ‘Hybrid Office’ model

By Jon Burnell

The ‘Hybrid Office’ will allow businesses to maintain their own managed smaller head office for team collaboration, in addition to regional and suburban micro-hubs, all on a needs-basis, which will help accommodate a blend of working from home and more conventional office work. As an experienced flexible office operator for more than 25 years, NewFlex … Continued

Backing British Businesses – CityMaas

By Jon Burnell

It uses a self-adapting UI/UX that is functionally bespoke to each type of disability once a user profile is set up, and machine learning to continuously learn users’ travel behaviour to provide optimal routing options to users in real time. CityMaaS Assist provides an end-to-end service from discovery, routing and providing essential information to booking … Continued