She Scales : Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

She Scale Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend: Rock-Solid Frameworks for Future Growth

📅 Date: 15th December 2026
🕰️ Time: 09:30am - 4:00pm
📍 Location: Royal Bank Accelerator, 142 - 144 Princes Street

Summary
A hands-on She Scales workshop: the frameworks global brands grow on, built for founders and delivered at founder speed.

Description
Diamonds are made under pressure. So are growing businesses. What matters is whether the structure underneath holds.

If you're in the messy middle - too big to run on gut feel and a spreadsheet, not yet set up to grow without breaking - this session is for you. Most founders at this stage don't need another strategy deck. They need to get organised, know which numbers actually matter, and have frameworks they can use to make decisions and grow with confidence.

Global-grade leadership. Founder-speed delivery.

Full-day workshop, 9.30am to 4.30pm.

What you'll do
No PowerPoint theatre. You'll work on your own business, with your own numbers, throughout:

• The brand and commercial frameworks used by global businesses, cut down to what a founder can use on Monday
• The metrics that matter, and the ones you can stop chasing
• What investors actually look for before they back a founder, and how to show it
• Commercial finance vs. accounting: why the numbers your accountant files aren't the numbers you run the business on
• Supply chain for scale: getting stock, suppliers and cash working together before growth breaks them
• AI without the hype: where it can save you time and find margin now, and where it's just noise

You'll leave with a plan you can act on, not a list of things to think about.

Who's running it
Lucy Henderson and Rachel Steven, co-founders of Fractional Folk. Between them: 40+ years inside Diageo, Heineken, AG Barr, C&C Group and Procter & Gamble, more than £1bn in transformation programmes and 60+ markets.

Lucy spent 13 years at Heineken, rising to Marketing Director EMEA Export, then led Tennent's, Magners and Menabrea as GB Marketing Director at C&C Group, and as UK Marketing Director at AG Barr restored IRN-BRU to growth and took Rubicon to £100m revenue. She chairs Investing Women Angels, Scotland's first all-female angel syndicate, and has built her own tech start-up - so she knows what investors need and what founders face.

Rachel has 20 years in the engine rooms of global FMCG (P&G and Diageo), with a stint in the public sector running governance, risk and board reporting. She now advises Signal, an AI-powered revenue growth management platform, and works hands-on with owner-led businesses. She'll show you how your pricing, promotions, supply chain and people all show up in one place: your numbers. And where AI can help you find the margin you're leaving on the table.

Fractional Folk embeds senior leaders inside scaling businesses. We don't sell time. We sell momentum.

Bring: a laptop, your latest numbers, and the decision you keep putting off.

📝 Description:

She Scales is a monthly female founders connection and co‑working day delivered across every Royal Bank Accelerator hub. It is a dedicated space for women who are building and growing businesses. The session brings people together to share experiences, exchange insight, and build community in a warm and honest environment.

Whether you are at the beginning of your journey, scaling with momentum, or learning from those who have already travelled the path ahead, She Scales offers meaningful connection, practical conversation, and genuine support. We welcome female founders, non‑binary founders who feel aligned with women’s spaces, and allies who wish to contribute, learn, and support.

📚 What to expect:

•A relaxed and welcoming start with coffee and informal introductions.•A focused session with conversations led by real founders sharing lived experience.•Themes that explore mindset, confidence, leadership, resilience, scaling, funding, and practical insight drawn from the realities of entrepreneurial growth.•Time to continue conversations, spark ideas, and connect with founders who understand your journey.•Optional co‑working for the rest of the day, allowing you to stay in the hub, keep the momentum going, and enjoy a productive working environment.•

👥 Why attend:

•Connect with founders who understand the opportunities and challenges faced by women in business.•Learn from lived experience shared openly and without judgement.•Build confidence, clarity, and new perspectives that support your growth.•Strengthen your sense of community and expand your network across the Accelerator.•Enjoy a productive co‑working day surrounded by peers who share your ambition.

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