This course is for creative businesses who want to navigate uncertainty while protecting profit. Participants will learn to identify and prioritise key risks, put simple mitigation actions in place, and use scenario planning to understand impacts on revenue, costs and cashflow.
A central theme is margin protection: understanding break-even, where profit leaks occur, and how to ensure growth happens in a controlled way that safeguards profitability.
The course also explores resilience through diversification, helping businesses assess new income streams, customers, or markets in a way that supports long-term stability. Participants will leave with a clearer, more confident plan for sustainable expansion and a practical risk-and-diversification roadmap.
Friday, October 2
9am – 4pm @ CREW
Business Consultant
Declan is an experienced Entrepreneur, business consultant and business mentor. He is founder of one of Ireland’s most distinctive, artisan food companies, Kinvara Smoked Salmon. He is a business Mentor with Galway LEO, Mayo LEO, SCCUL and Enterprise Ireland and lecturer with UCD Innovation Academy and with the New Frontiers programme at ATU. He also delivers start-up courses to start-up and early stage entrepreneurs.
Identify the key risks facing your business and assess where they are most exposed
Prioritise risks and put practical mitigation actions in place
Utilise scenario planning
Develop a practical resilience and growth plan for the next 12–18 months
Evaluate diversification opportunities across income streams, customers and markets
This is a 1-day course consisting of 2 workshops. The morning workshop focuses on mitigating risk and building resilience in uncertain economic environments, while the second workshop looks at growth and planning through diversification.
Workshop 1: Risk, Resilience and Diversification
Topics include:
Workshop 2: Customers, Growth and Planning Ahead
Topics include:
The course fee is €160.
This course is being offered to the SME at 20% of the market rate (the full programme is valued at €800) with the remaining 80% supported by Enterprise Ireland Smart Region scheme. In order to avail of this discounted rate, all applicants are asked to confirm that they have the appropriate De Minimis balance to accept the support. More information on De Minimis State Aid can be found here: State Aid | Enterprise Ireland
This course is for growing creative businesses with sales experience who want to manage risk, protect margins, build resilience and plan for sustainable growth.
