The “Be More Happipreneur Show”  is entertaining, unique and work-life-enhancing.

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For itinerary, sponsorship packages, happipreneur merchandise and booking tickets for the Be More Happipreneur Festival on Friday, March 22nd and Saturday< March 23rd 2024 – go to https://happipreneur.co.uk

The one-hour show, followed by a 30-minute Q&A panel, is for everyone and every leader. Employees in companies and the public sector that support self-employed people love it, as do existing small and micro business customers and all enterprising people thinking of starting or running their own enterprises and side hustles.  50% of the £1000 fee or our share of your ticket sales is split between Macmillan Cancer Support and Yorkshire in Business to provide free startup support.

WELCOME to 30 years of know-how and know-who. 

This site is absolutely FREE to access with NO contact details required or log-ins.  

Whether you are or support an enterprising person, start-up, side hustler, freelancer, entrepreneur, intrapreneur, leader, self-employed person, student or small or micro business owner, you’ll find plenty here of VALUE to help you to be more useful and happier in your work. 

     Tony co-wrote “The Happipreneur” and performs the “Be More Happipreneur” Show. He is a Co-Founder of The Micro Business Alliance, with organisations representing over 1.2 million micro business owners directly and 4 million indirectly. The Alliance works with the Government to improve policymaking to ensure all #startups and micro business owners have the best chance to survive and thrive.
    The Be More Happipreneur Show makes every town and city a more enterprising and business-owner-friendly place.  In addition to the Micro Business Alliance, Tony is Chair of Yorkshire in Business Limited, Patron of the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank. Co-Founder of The Happipreneur Festival, Co-Founder of the #MicroBizMatters movement, #PayIn30Days campaigner and Director of the National Organisation for Responsible Businesses.
The whole concept of Tony’s philosophy of HAPPIPRENEURSHIP is that enterprising people and enterprising leaders make our workplaces and world a better and happier place. Even if you have no intention of leading an enterprising organisation, starting or running your own enterprise, you’ll find plenty in the book, the show and on this site to help other enterprising people – team members, colleagues, leaders, friends and family. ENJOY.

Book it before he snuffs it. The fabulous, uplifting and above all, enterprising “BE MORE HAPPIPRENEUR” Show.

People work best when they feel good about themselves. Help yourself and your leaders, team, family, friends and work colleagues to BE MORE HAPPIPRENEUR.

Everyone can BE MORE HAPPIPRENEUR.

Being happy and enterprising for 80% or more of your time at work is attainable and it feels great.

My famous and not-so-famous friends are living proof of happipreneurship in action.

Our Happipreneurship philosophy was 26 years in the making and two years in interviewing and writing.

Everyone can “Be More Happipreneur”!

PLEASE BOOK MY INSPIRING, ENTERTAINING AND JOYFUL “BE MORE HAPPIPRENEUR” SHOW FOR YOUR NEXT COMMUNITY, EMPLOYEES, CUSTOMERS, MEMBERS GET-TOGETHER, EXHIBITION, FORUM, CONFERENCE, FESTIVAL OR NETWORKING EVENT OR WITH YOUR OWN VIP PANEL, ADD A Q&A FOR A 2-HOUR STAND-ALONE UNIQUELY SPECIAL EVENT. 

The “Be More Happipreneur!” Show

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TONY SAYS:

Do you want to host a unique, entertaining, inspiring and very special event?

Every company, institution, organisation and individual can benefit from Happipreneurship. 

In Company, In University, In College, In Theatres, In Clubs, In Conference Rooms, In Pubs, In Hotels, In Festival Spaces – virtual or inside or outside – all I need is a mic and an audience who will enjoy being or helping others to be more Happipreneur.

The show is interactive and lasts at least one hour. Often the show fits into a conference programme. Sometimes the host, the host’s VIP panellists and I form a Q&A Panel at the end. This gives up to two hours, with a break, for a very special breakfast, lunchtime or evening event.

I donate 25% of my fee (see below), and £2 per copy sold of “The Happipreneur” to #MacmillanCancerSupport, for which charity I raised £2700 in 2022. A further 25% of my fee goes to Yorkshire in Business towards providing free start-up support.

The first ‘Be More Happipreneur’ show was in August 2021 at the Coventry University Campus in my home town of Scarborough.

The next show was in South Shields. Another packed house in the Tap Room of a Brewery. They enjoyed it so much that they stayed from 5 to 11 pm.

The BIGGEST virtual show to date was in 2022 for the International Association of Bookkeepers and the Organisation for Responsible Business. It was amazing and loads of fun. It was helped by having an enthusiastic, small live audience too. We were streaming from Yorkshire in Business’ Explore Indie & The Grind Cafe/Pop-Up Shops in Scarborough.

After the show, we had a fab Q&A Panel which included Janet Jack, CEO of IAB, Jill Poet, CEO of ORB, Jenn Crowther, CEO of Yorkshire in Business and Fabian Hamilton, MP, President of IAB.

2023 is devoted to running Be More Happipreneur Shows and spreading happipreneurship throughout the towns and cities of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland.

The fabulous show for Cheshire Business School in April 2023, in their Mindful Monday series, was at the poshest venue yet – The De Vere Cranage Estate in Holmes Chapel. I was joined by Ian Cass, CEO of the Forum of Private Business and leader of the Micro Business Alliance and Jenn Crowther, CEO of Yorkshire in Business, in the Q&A panel after the show. Jenn and Ian are both successful entrepreneurs and happipreneurs and are featured in our book. I’m honoured to serve with them on the 5-person Steering Group of the Micro Business Alliance.

On Thursday, June 15, 2023, the Be More Happipreneur Show will be at the Customs House Theatre, South Shields, as part of the Micro Business Unite Conference.

Early bird tickets – £99 – are now available for The Happipreneur Festival in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, on Friday, 22nd March and Saturday, 23rd March 2024.  For the  itinerary, tickets and Happipreneur merchandise, go to:https://happipreneur.co.uk 

Micro Business Alliance members feature at every show and the bi-annual Happipreneur Festival. Tony co-founded the Micro Business Alliance

Please host this one-hour interactive Show + Q&A. It is for everyone – your people will love it.

Virtual and live shows, indoors or outdoors, will be performed throughout 2023. Email tonyrobinsonobe@gmail.com

HAPPIPRENEURSHIP IS A PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY

The Happipreneur was two years in the making. Taryn Lee Johnston and Tony Robinson OBE have updated the philosophy and business principles underpinning Schumacher’s influential work, Small is Beautiful.

Happipreneur show audienceSchumacher wrote about  ‘economics as if people mattered’, and the book and show are about ‘enterprise as if people cared’. It is a value-driven philosophy of benefit to everyone, everywhere. What are the benefits of long-term innovation, collaboration, survival, growth, health, fulfilment and happiness through enabling others to be enterprising and useful to others?

Check out the 5* reviews, testimonials and media coverage of  The Happipreneur and Be More Happipreneur talks.

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Tony is a multiple business owner, with business partner Clare Francis, for over three decades.  He is the recipient of 2 Lifetime Achievement Awards for Enterprise. He was honoured with an OBE for services to small firms in 2001. He was awarded the National Enterprise Network’s ‘Enterprise Support Champion 2019’ and Hull City Council’s ‘Youth Enterprise Champion 2021’. 

Tony is an inspirational speaker topping the bill for over thirty years.

All of Tony’s work, keynotes, and Be More Happipreneur Shows are in collaboration with

Yorkshire in Business Limited

holly@yorkshireinbusiness.org.uk

THE HAPPIPRENEUR FESTIVAL IS ON FRIDAY, 22nd & SATURDAY, 23rd MARCH 2024 – TICKETS ARE £99 – TO BOOK OR TO SPONSOR OR FOR HAPPIPRENEUR MERCHANDISE PLEASE GO TO https://happipreneur.co.uk

To watch the live broadcasts and videos of #MicroBizMattersDay 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 GO HERE

Email me with your motivational speaker requirements TonyRobinsonOBE@gmail.com

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