Designing Your Way In is a practical framework for business owners who don’t have built-in advantages like funding, fame, or powerful networks and don’t want to wait in line for attention.
This talk challenges the idea that progress comes from following the same visible steps as everyone else, and instead shows how intentionally designing your own route creates momentum, access, and differentiation in crowded markets.
Your audience will learn how to identify where they are relying on default success paths, how to redesign their approach.
Roll in, say hello and grab a desk. When everyone has arrived we’ll give you a little intro to the day and we’ll all introduce ourselves and what we do to the crew.
Work or natter, the choice is yours! A chance to tackle the admin backlog, the to-do list or that post you keep not writing.
Time to learn something new with a 30 minute speaker session followed by time to go eat some food, breathe, and chat to your new crew bestie.
What's better than a natter over cake? Lets share the highs and lows of life, work, and everything in-between with cake and a cuppa.
Head home with weights lifted and a head full of ideas.
For clubhouse members (£10/month)
Coworking, speaker & cake :)
First-dibs on tickets
Your crew all month in the clubhouse
Weekly accountability
Online sessions
No membership, just turn up for the day
Coworking, speaker & cake :)
First-dibs on tickets
Your crew all month in the clubhouse
Weekly accountability
Online sessions
Limited one-off spots
Grab your cowork day tickets earlier and for half the price of non clubhouse members.
Commit on a Monday, check in on a Friday - a little accountability goes a long way!
Weekly eat-that-frog sessions, monthly LinkedIn Planning - it's easier to get through the hard stuff with others.
Share what you do and where you are so your crew mates can find you.
Client problem? Work wobble? Big win? Share it and solve it, or celebrate it with your crew.
A huge thank you to x+why for providing a stunning space to host Cowork Crew Milton Keynes!
x+why’s innovative green workspaces support communities of businesses, employees and leaders who believe business should be a force for good.
Their space at Unity Place, set within Santander’s flagship headquarters in Milton Keynes, brings together impact led companies in an environment designed to encourage collaboration, wellbeing and growth.
Blending modern workspace with a vibrant hospitality feel and a strong wellbeing culture, x+why offers exceptional event space and co working facilities, making it a fitting home for a day dedicated to focus, ideas and shared energy.
Bhavini is a brand and marketing designer who believes great design is all about the thoughtful details. Since moving from the corporate world to start B81 Designs, she’s focused on creating intentional, high-impact branding and marketing collateral that proves professional design doesn’t have to be stiff or boring.
A fan of clean white space and bold typography, Bhavini loves making the design process collaborative and fun for clients and fellow solo founders. Based in Milton Keynes, she’s a proud solo-founder and parent who’s mastered the art of delivering high-end work alongside a busy family life.
She loves trading the home office for a day of coworking, and is always up for a chat about minimalist layouts, coffee, and cake (specifically pistachio tiramisu) or the beautiful, chaotic reality of the self-employed parenting juggle!
Stacey is a female freedom & empowerment coach based in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Yes big rebellion energy can absolutely come from a small town.
Obsessed with coffee, cake, notebooks she doesn’t technically need, wearing whatever the hell she wants, & swearing at appropriate & inappropriate moments.
She has a passion for working with women to connect them deeply to themselves & the full colour life they desire. Stacey works with women to help them unpick performative behaviours & conditioned living women are taught is necessary. Making all the space for wild freedom! She helps women build self-trust, boundaries, emotional capacity & the kind of freedom that doesn’t require burning your whole life down. No one cheerleads, holds space, & sees women in their power quite like Stacey. And no one speaks bold truth quicker!
Stacey is all in on coworking, connection, & questioning some of the rules we’ve been taught to live by.
While a lot of folk who attend are self employed, we're a super welcoming bunch.
The 'why' behind Cowork Crew is to help the self-employed and folk who work from home get out of the home office/coffee shop/kitchen table and enjoy some of the camraderie you used to get from colleagues.
The speaker topics and our general content will always be aimed at freelancers, founders and business owners, but we love meeting new faces. And if you work from home and fancy a day's company you are very welcome to join us.
We get it, we work for ourselves for many reasons, including schedule flexibility.
Come for as much of the day as makes sense for you.
You can bring lunch with you, or take the day-out excuse to nip to a local lunch spot.
Make sure you leave some room, as we’ll have cake to pick us all up during that mid-afternoon slump!
You’re welcome to take a call during Cowork Crew day. You can tuck yourself slightly out of the ‘main’ space in the breakout space if you want to avoid sitting around others while chatting.
We don’t have a completely private space available (as in a completely separate room) however, so it’s probably not the best time to run a webinar!
The benefits of spending a day coworking together go well beyond getting work done.
Feel free to chat to anyone who has the vibe they’re up for it. Or go to a social space to chat more in-depth if you'd like to.
No worries, life/clients/things happen! We offer refunds up to 24 hours before the event starts, no questions asked.
If you bought your ticket through the Clubhouse (Circle) pop an email to hey@coworkcrew.com and we'll process the refund for you.
If you bought your ticket through Eventbrite, here's Eventbrite's docs on how to request a refund. You'll get all of your fee refunded, bar Eventbrite's ticketing fee.
Milton Keynes Central train station is a 2 minute walk away, and we’re only 30 mins from Euston on the train.
If you are driving in, there is parking next to the building provided by Milton Keynes city council. Check out the Unity Place parking information for more details.
The full address is x+why, Unity Place, 200 Grafton Gate, Milton Keynes, MK9 1UP