ProductTank Bristol

Happy new year everyone! We will be kick off the year with our Goal Setting workshop Meetup!

6:00 - Descend 🛬, Sip 🍹, Snacks 🌮, and Strategy 💡
6:25 - Introduction and a warm welcome from our host
6:30 - 🎤 First Talk
7:15 - Break for more sips 🍹 and snacks 🌮
7:30 - 🎤 Goal setting workshop
8:15 - Wrap Up
8:20 - End and Depart, with the opportunity for extended discussions at the pub

Tools for managing stress and feeling more balanced.
Sarah will introduce us to a few simple techniques that can help combat stress and increase resilience as we head into the new year. She’ll be drawing on her own experience of burnout but also her professional training in a wellbeing method called sophrology. Widely used across Europe by everyone from Olympians to business leaders, sophrology is a practical mental training method that blends Western medical science and Eastern traditions like yoga. It offers accessible tools that can help reduce stress, improve sleep and increase performance. Sarah will explain a little of the science behind it - but also encourage us to give it a go!

👤 - Sara Prag - Wellbeing coach - helping bring balance to busy minds
Sarah spent 20 years developing and managing digital products, services and teams in places like eBay, the BBC and the Government Digital Service before a period of severe burnout forced her to change direction. Alongside working as a consultant and coach she discovered a wellbeing method called sophrology that impressed her so much she decided to retrain and is now a professional sophrologist. She’s on a mission to take these simple pragmatic techniques into the workplace, giving people tools they can use to manage stress, build confidence and improve their overall wellbeing.

Goal Setting Workshop
Matt will leading an extended workshop activity to inspire us all and get us going into the new year with a bang! In this workshop you will capture a key change you'd like to achieve in your organisation. We'll then use the Change Canvas to help you map out the change, and take first meaningful steps towards it.

Matt Stone
👤 - Matt is a Product consultant, speaker, advisor and investor. He has over a decade of experience scaling technical products & product teams across the globe, for household brands including Go.Compare and General Electric (GE), Matt works with B2B and B2C organisations to help them make better products, increase revenue, and deliver greater value for their users. He is also one of the co-organisers of ProductTank Bristol.

Hosted By:

Ghyston
With end-to-end expertise, we can take your ideas from concept to working software. Our Bristol-based team love to be challenged with complex problems and to apply their creative knowledge to come up with a tailored solution.

Founded in 2012 by wife and husband team Emily and Ric Hill, we have established ourselves firmly on the Bristol tech scene, working with businesses in the South West, and beyond. We are proud to be part of the local technical community; our name Ghyston comes from a mythological character from Bristol folklore - the industrious giant who created the Avon gorge!

We put a huge amount of effort into recruiting bright, inquisitive people and train most of our developers and project managers from scratch in house. As a result, we have a close-knit team who work well together and are passionate about creating exceptional outcomes for our clients. https://www.ghyston.com/

Sponsor
Re-thrive
Re-thrive installs next-gen Agentic AI in your business, that tangibly improves performance. Our approach is unique: We use Systems Theory to create Anti-Fragile, self improving workflows, enabling automation and human intelligence to act as multipliers (not competitors) to one another
https://re-thrive.co/

Pilot Works
Pilot Works is a product and service design consultancy based in Bristol.
We use research and prototyping techniques to help our clients visualise and align on what they need to deliver, in order meet the needs of their users and achieve their organisation’s goals.
As well as hands-on consultancy we also provide training and coaching for individuals and teams.
Find out more at https://pilot.works