Scale Up Network

For small businesses, our acclaimed network enables business leaders to meet future challenges.

What is the Scale Up Network?

The network is a small and selected group of successful and growing scale up leaders who come together to explore common constraint issues, co-create solutions and maximise the impact of potential improvements. They benefit from the knowledge and skills of Oxford Brookes Business School, combined with external, professional, facilitated support over the course of a year.

Oxford Brookes Business School created the Scale Up Network in 2019 to enhance and develop the leadership and management capacity of local organisations. Leaders have limited management and leadership time to engage with a growing workforce. Key to unlocking future potential is ensuring that scarce time is optimised for maximum impact.

New: Biosciences Edition

Dates: April 2025

How it works

Blend of business expert input workshops, action learning and trusted peer support to explore potential solutions:

  • learn from experts and academics
  • online and in-person 
  • 6 x 4-hours delivery
  • delivered over 6 months.

Criteria for joining

Business leaders come from organisations that should:

  • employ between 5 and 30 people
  • be able to demonstrate growth potential within the current business model
  • work in/around the biosciences field.

Session dates from April 2025

Biosciences group:

  • Session 1: 29 April (face to face)
  • Session 2: 3 June (face to face)
  • Session 3: 15 July (online)
  • Session 4: 9 September (online)
  • Session 5: 14 October (face to face)
  • Session 6: 11 November (face to face) 
Group of participants

Additional details

Sponsored by our Scale Up supporters

Feedback from previous cohorts

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FAQs

Contact us

OBBS Business & External Engagement

Phone +44 (0) 1865 534800 (OBBS Reception > Option 4 > Option 1)

Email obbs-bee@brookes.ac.uk