Leadership & Neuroscience
The Quiet Science of Better Leaders
📅 Thursday, 22 January 2026
⏰ 08:30 – 10:00
📍 Hotel du Vin, Harrogate
Speaker: Dr. Hannah Whitfield
Book seat →Curious conversations · Yorkshire
Business
learning
over a cuppa.
A monthly gathering for curious business leaders. Real stories, candid talks, and ideas worth taking back to your desk.
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About the series
More than networking.
Connect Over a Cuppa is a monthly event for business owners, leaders and curious thinkers who believe that learning and connection go hand in hand. Each gathering brings a thoughtful speaker, an open room, and the kind of conversations that don't end when the tea does.
Learn
A headline speaker each month sharing real research, real stories.
Connect
Genuine, unhurried introductions over a proper Yorkshire brew.
Reflect
Space to think about what it means for your business this week.
Grow
Many guests go on to deeper work with Biskit's team programmes.
"The events I'd want to attend."
Monthly · Hotel du Vin, Harrogate
Upcoming events
Join us next.
Founders & Sustainability
Seaweed, Soil & the Slow Build of a Yorkshire Brand
📅 Thursday, 19 February 2026
⏰ 08:30 – 10:00
📍 Hotel du Vin, Harrogate
Speaker: Marcus Penn
Book seat →Curiosity & Innovation
Curiosity as a Business Strategy
📅 Thursday, 19 March 2026
⏰ 08:30 – 10:00
📍 Hotel du Vin, Harrogate
Speaker: Imogen Clarke
Book seat →Themes we explore
Ideas that matter
to your business.
From the science of leadership to the texture of an honest founder story — these are the conversations we host, in plain language.
- 01Leadership & the science of being human
- 02Neuroscience & business behaviour
- 03AI & the future of work
- 04Curiosity, reinvention & growth
- 05The craft of leading a business
- 06The energy of a team
- 07Marketing & building an audience
- 08Authenticity at work
- 09Team development & culture
- 10Strategy meets founder stories
- 11Social enterprise & cooperatives
- 12Innovation & emerging practice
Past speakers
People who've shared
their story with us.
DH
David Hartley
MD, Hartley Precision Engineering
PA
Priya Anand
Founder, Northern AI Studio
RH
Rachel Holroyd
Founder, Holroyd & Co.
TB
Tom Beresford
Suma Wholefoods
Insights
What we've learned.
Ideas
Leadership
What precision engineering taught us about leadership
David Hartley spent forty minutes telling stories about milling tolerances. Somehow, it was the clearest talk on leadership we've hosted.
November 2025 · 5 min read
AI
AI & Business
AI without the hype: the takeaways
Three questions every Yorkshire SME should ask before they spend another pound on an AI tool — distilled from Priya Anand's October talk.
October 2025 · 7 min read
Grow
Founder Stories
The emotional P&L of being a founder
Rachel Holroyd opened a conversation most rooms avoid. Here's what people said afterwards, over the second round of tea.
September 2025 · 6 min read
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"I wanted to create the kind of business event I'd actually look forward to attending — warm, intelligent and genuinely useful."
Beyond the events
Consultancy, leadership &
outdoor learning.
Many guests go on to work with Biskit on longer programmes — for their leadership teams, their culture, and their next chapter.
Explore Biskit's work →Leadership development
Programmes that build the steady, generous leaders teams want to follow.
In-house facilitation
Honest, well-run sessions that move difficult conversations forward.
Outdoor learning
Yorkshire-rooted retreats where ideas land and teams reset.
Stay in the loop
Never miss an event.
One short, thoughtful email each month with the upcoming speaker and takeaways from Connect Over a Cuppa. No spam.
Hosted in Harrogate · Connect Over a Cuppa is a Biskit Ltd initiative.
Leadership & the science of being human✦Neuroscience & business behaviour✦AI & the future of work✦Curiosity, reinvention & growth✦The craft of leading a business✦The energy of a team✦Marketing & building an audience✦Authenticity at work✦Team development & culture✦Strategy meets founder stories✦Social enterprise & cooperatives✦Innovation & emerging practice✦Leadership & the science of being human✦Neuroscience & business behaviour✦AI & the future of work✦Curiosity, reinvention & growth✦The craft of leading a business✦The energy of a team✦Marketing & building an audience✦Authenticity at work✦Team development & culture✦Strategy meets founder stories✦Social enterprise & cooperatives✦Innovation & emerging practice✦