Hollie Whittles
@holliewhittles.bsky.social
Tech Director | FSB National Policy Champion Skills | #TEDxSpeaker #Author #AI #DataAnalytics #Speaker #Webinars #Events | Likes: Music🎷Cats🐱Fizz🥂Purple💜Handbags👜
Honoured to be invited to the launch of the #AI #Skills Report for the UK Workforce at The British Academy today.
There are several tools in the report to support AI adoption and workforce upskilling:
💡 AI Skills Framework
💡 AI Skills Adoption Pathway Model
💡 Employer AI Adoption Checklist
There are several tools in the report to support AI adoption and workforce upskilling:
💡 AI Skills Framework
💡 AI Skills Adoption Pathway Model
💡 Employer AI Adoption Checklist
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Loved being at @gtiaofficial.bsky.social ChannelCon EMEA Conference this week, I was lucky enough to meet Sir Bob Geldof but also Sir Stephen Fry who is very tall, really engaging and just lovely.
We launched our #data and #AI guidebook, grab your copy here: gtia.org/hubfs/GTIA%2...
We launched our #data and #AI guidebook, grab your copy here: gtia.org/hubfs/GTIA%2...
October 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Loved being at @gtiaofficial.bsky.social ChannelCon EMEA Conference this week, I was lucky enough to meet Sir Bob Geldof but also Sir Stephen Fry who is very tall, really engaging and just lovely.
We launched our #data and #AI guidebook, grab your copy here: gtia.org/hubfs/GTIA%2...
We launched our #data and #AI guidebook, grab your copy here: gtia.org/hubfs/GTIA%2...
What a way to end @gtiaofficial.bsky.social ChannelCon EMEA. Inspired and in awe to meet Sir Bob Geldof this evening.
Do you remember Live Aid?
I remember recording it onto VHS! 🎥 #WeAreGTIA
Do you remember Live Aid?
I remember recording it onto VHS! 🎥 #WeAreGTIA
October 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
What a way to end @gtiaofficial.bsky.social ChannelCon EMEA. Inspired and in awe to meet Sir Bob Geldof this evening.
Do you remember Live Aid?
I remember recording it onto VHS! 🎥 #WeAreGTIA
Do you remember Live Aid?
I remember recording it onto VHS! 🎥 #WeAreGTIA
Great #apprenticeship opportunities for anyone looking to get into the film industry 🎥
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September 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Great #apprenticeship opportunities for anyone looking to get into the film industry 🎥
nfts.co.uk/apple-tv-uk-...?
nfts.co.uk/apple-tv-uk-...?
Pleasure to represent @fsb-uk.bsky.social on the panel today for the launch @thefabians.bsky.social report: 'Levying-Up - How to make the growth and skills levy work'.
fabians.org.uk/publication/...
#Apprenticeships #Skills @cipd.bsky.social @fionaaldridge.bsky.social @joedromey.bsky.social
fabians.org.uk/publication/...
#Apprenticeships #Skills @cipd.bsky.social @fionaaldridge.bsky.social @joedromey.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Pleasure to represent @fsb-uk.bsky.social on the panel today for the launch @thefabians.bsky.social report: 'Levying-Up - How to make the growth and skills levy work'.
fabians.org.uk/publication/...
#Apprenticeships #Skills @cipd.bsky.social @fionaaldridge.bsky.social @joedromey.bsky.social
fabians.org.uk/publication/...
#Apprenticeships #Skills @cipd.bsky.social @fionaaldridge.bsky.social @joedromey.bsky.social
Excited to be here at @gtiaofficial.bsky.social ChannelCon conference in Nashville
We have the inaugural global leadership committee meeting today
I’ll be there as vice chair of the UK & Ireland Executive Council alongside our fab chair Dan Scott 🇬🇧
#WeAreGTIA #GTIAChannelCon #ChannelCon2025
We have the inaugural global leadership committee meeting today
I’ll be there as vice chair of the UK & Ireland Executive Council alongside our fab chair Dan Scott 🇬🇧
#WeAreGTIA #GTIAChannelCon #ChannelCon2025
July 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Excited to be here at @gtiaofficial.bsky.social ChannelCon conference in Nashville
We have the inaugural global leadership committee meeting today
I’ll be there as vice chair of the UK & Ireland Executive Council alongside our fab chair Dan Scott 🇬🇧
#WeAreGTIA #GTIAChannelCon #ChannelCon2025
We have the inaugural global leadership committee meeting today
I’ll be there as vice chair of the UK & Ireland Executive Council alongside our fab chair Dan Scott 🇬🇧
#WeAreGTIA #GTIAChannelCon #ChannelCon2025
Ending this week feeling grateful, it’s taken me a week to process the fact that I won 2 awards at @gtiaofficial.bsky.social UK & Ireland Spotlight Awards
🏆 Community Leadership
🥈 Advancing Women in Tech
It’s meant so much to win amongst community friends, mentors & leaders #WeAreGTIA
🏆 Community Leadership
🥈 Advancing Women in Tech
It’s meant so much to win amongst community friends, mentors & leaders #WeAreGTIA
July 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Ending this week feeling grateful, it’s taken me a week to process the fact that I won 2 awards at @gtiaofficial.bsky.social UK & Ireland Spotlight Awards
🏆 Community Leadership
🥈 Advancing Women in Tech
It’s meant so much to win amongst community friends, mentors & leaders #WeAreGTIA
🏆 Community Leadership
🥈 Advancing Women in Tech
It’s meant so much to win amongst community friends, mentors & leaders #WeAreGTIA
Wonderful evening at the 2025 Telford College Student Awards 🏆 celebrating the hard work of the students and their achievements all fantastically hosted by @carljones1.bsky.social 🎤 🌺 It was an honour to attend as a #governor tonight and thank all of the staff for their support to the students 👏🏻
June 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Wonderful evening at the 2025 Telford College Student Awards 🏆 celebrating the hard work of the students and their achievements all fantastically hosted by @carljones1.bsky.social 🎤 🌺 It was an honour to attend as a #governor tonight and thank all of the staff for their support to the students 👏🏻
Another productive UK policy committee meeting at FSB Westminster (Federation of Small Businesses) this morning discussing the most important issues affecting members across all nations.
#smallbusiness #fsbpolicy
@fsb-uk.bsky.social
#smallbusiness #fsbpolicy
@fsb-uk.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Another productive UK policy committee meeting at FSB Westminster (Federation of Small Businesses) this morning discussing the most important issues affecting members across all nations.
#smallbusiness #fsbpolicy
@fsb-uk.bsky.social
#smallbusiness #fsbpolicy
@fsb-uk.bsky.social
It’s been a very special day being invited to the Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace for my work as a business owner who spends a lot of time supporting national skills policy for the Department of Education.
May 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It’s been a very special day being invited to the Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace for my work as a business owner who spends a lot of time supporting national skills policy for the Department of Education.
Some great discussions at the Careers & Enterprise Employer Advisory Group chaired by Nicky Morgan
FSB, via Generation Entrepreneur, supports adding 2 weeks’ worth of work experience & making enterprise education part of every student journey
#EntrepreneurshipMonth #Careers
FSB, via Generation Entrepreneur, supports adding 2 weeks’ worth of work experience & making enterprise education part of every student journey
#EntrepreneurshipMonth #Careers
April 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Some great discussions at the Careers & Enterprise Employer Advisory Group chaired by Nicky Morgan
FSB, via Generation Entrepreneur, supports adding 2 weeks’ worth of work experience & making enterprise education part of every student journey
#EntrepreneurshipMonth #Careers
FSB, via Generation Entrepreneur, supports adding 2 weeks’ worth of work experience & making enterprise education part of every student journey
#EntrepreneurshipMonth #Careers
Loved the first UK and @gtiaofficial.bsky.social meeting of the year. Great to meet with the Executive Council yesterday, today I got to run a #data and #AI workshop to feed into an initiative I’m leading on for the community. Thanks everyone for a great time! 🙌🏻 #WeAreGTIA
March 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Loved the first UK and @gtiaofficial.bsky.social meeting of the year. Great to meet with the Executive Council yesterday, today I got to run a #data and #AI workshop to feed into an initiative I’m leading on for the community. Thanks everyone for a great time! 🙌🏻 #WeAreGTIA
Finally got my hands on some @gtiaofficial.bsky.social socks 😝 Looking forward to our UK & Ireland meeting today in Dublin. Lots of great speakers on the agenda, I’m running a session on #Data and #AI after lunch so looking forward to getting lots of member feedback 🙌🏻
March 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Finally got my hands on some @gtiaofficial.bsky.social socks 😝 Looking forward to our UK & Ireland meeting today in Dublin. Lots of great speakers on the agenda, I’m running a session on #Data and #AI after lunch so looking forward to getting lots of member feedback 🙌🏻
Off to the @gtiaofficial.bsky.social first UK & Ireland meeting of 2025 🙌🏻 #wearegtia looking forward to catching up with my fellow Executive Council members 😊
March 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Off to the @gtiaofficial.bsky.social first UK & Ireland meeting of 2025 🙌🏻 #wearegtia looking forward to catching up with my fellow Executive Council members 😊
A few memories of our gorgeous #iwd2025 event on Friday, so lovely to catch up with people 🙌🏻 #internationalwomensday #accelerateaction #iwd #shropshire #telford #business #womeninbusiness
March 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
A few memories of our gorgeous #iwd2025 event on Friday, so lovely to catch up with people 🙌🏻 #internationalwomensday #accelerateaction #iwd #shropshire #telford #business #womeninbusiness
We had the best time today, 60 ladies and 2 inspirational speakers - thank you to everyone who came and made the event so special 💜 @karmennovak.bsky.social #AccelerateAction #IWD2025
March 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
We had the best time today, 60 ladies and 2 inspirational speakers - thank you to everyone who came and made the event so special 💜 @karmennovak.bsky.social #AccelerateAction #IWD2025
Delighted to be invited by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on #Apprenticeships (APPG) today to Portcullis House for #NationalApprenticeshipWeek
It was a great opportunity to celebrate apprenticeships - meet providers, ambassadors, employers and apprentices themselves!
It was a great opportunity to celebrate apprenticeships - meet providers, ambassadors, employers and apprentices themselves!
February 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Delighted to be invited by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on #Apprenticeships (APPG) today to Portcullis House for #NationalApprenticeshipWeek
It was a great opportunity to celebrate apprenticeships - meet providers, ambassadors, employers and apprentices themselves!
It was a great opportunity to celebrate apprenticeships - meet providers, ambassadors, employers and apprentices themselves!
Delighted to meet Baroness Jacqui Smith Minister for Skills @fsb-uk.bsky.social #NAW25
#apprenticeships are a great way to recruit young talent & upskill existing staff
We need the #skills system to provide equitable, financially viable & straight forward processes for apprentices
#apprenticeships are a great way to recruit young talent & upskill existing staff
We need the #skills system to provide equitable, financially viable & straight forward processes for apprentices
February 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Delighted to meet Baroness Jacqui Smith Minister for Skills @fsb-uk.bsky.social #NAW25
#apprenticeships are a great way to recruit young talent & upskill existing staff
We need the #skills system to provide equitable, financially viable & straight forward processes for apprentices
#apprenticeships are a great way to recruit young talent & upskill existing staff
We need the #skills system to provide equitable, financially viable & straight forward processes for apprentices
I had the great privilege today of being the keynote speaker on 🎤
Unlocking the #AI #productivity opportunity
Thanks to the The Productivity Collective, Be the Business and BT Business for hosting the event 👏🏻
Take our AI quiz to get a readiness report ⬇️
bit.ly/4glS1Y8
#NationalProductivityWeek
Unlocking the #AI #productivity opportunity
Thanks to the The Productivity Collective, Be the Business and BT Business for hosting the event 👏🏻
Take our AI quiz to get a readiness report ⬇️
bit.ly/4glS1Y8
#NationalProductivityWeek
January 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I had the great privilege today of being the keynote speaker on 🎤
Unlocking the #AI #productivity opportunity
Thanks to the The Productivity Collective, Be the Business and BT Business for hosting the event 👏🏻
Take our AI quiz to get a readiness report ⬇️
bit.ly/4glS1Y8
#NationalProductivityWeek
Unlocking the #AI #productivity opportunity
Thanks to the The Productivity Collective, Be the Business and BT Business for hosting the event 👏🏻
Take our AI quiz to get a readiness report ⬇️
bit.ly/4glS1Y8
#NationalProductivityWeek
Loved doing my talk this morning to a room full of start up businesses on marketing strategy 🎤
❓who is your ideal client
❓where are they hanging out
❓what’s your unique selling point
❓what pain points are you solving
❓how should they buy from you #marketing #strategy
❓who is your ideal client
❓where are they hanging out
❓what’s your unique selling point
❓what pain points are you solving
❓how should they buy from you #marketing #strategy
January 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Loved doing my talk this morning to a room full of start up businesses on marketing strategy 🎤
❓who is your ideal client
❓where are they hanging out
❓what’s your unique selling point
❓what pain points are you solving
❓how should they buy from you #marketing #strategy
❓who is your ideal client
❓where are they hanging out
❓what’s your unique selling point
❓what pain points are you solving
❓how should they buy from you #marketing #strategy
Looking forward to delivering my talk on #marketing to a room full of pre-start businesses today. Thank you to the British Business Bank and the Shropshire Growth Hub for giving businesses a good start 🙌🏻
January 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Looking forward to delivering my talk on #marketing to a room full of pre-start businesses today. Thank you to the British Business Bank and the Shropshire Growth Hub for giving businesses a good start 🙌🏻
Proud that @purplefrogsys.bsky.social were at the Sponsor Buffet at Telford Hornets RFC as they take on Sutton Coldfield this weekend! 🏉 It’s a fantastic opportunity to support local rugby and connect with fellow sponsors. See you there! 💜 #TelfordHornets #Rugby #PurpleFrog
January 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Proud that @purplefrogsys.bsky.social were at the Sponsor Buffet at Telford Hornets RFC as they take on Sutton Coldfield this weekend! 🏉 It’s a fantastic opportunity to support local rugby and connect with fellow sponsors. See you there! 💜 #TelfordHornets #Rugby #PurpleFrog
I can't believe this but our International Women’s Day event is nearly sold out! It is the 7th year running it, all are welcome so don’t miss out. Hear Karmen from international brand Flower And Spice and the inspirational Yasmin Sulaman #iwd2025 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio...
January 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I can't believe this but our International Women’s Day event is nearly sold out! It is the 7th year running it, all are welcome so don’t miss out. Hear Karmen from international brand Flower And Spice and the inspirational Yasmin Sulaman #iwd2025 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio...
Happy 2025 🙌🏻 Check out my column on page 34 for my thoughts on #AI and the #metaverse this year 🤖 🌍 ⬇️
#shropshirebusiness #AIpredictions @purplefrogsys.bsky.social
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#shropshirebusiness #AIpredictions @purplefrogsys.bsky.social
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January 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Happy 2025 🙌🏻 Check out my column on page 34 for my thoughts on #AI and the #metaverse this year 🤖 🌍 ⬇️
#shropshirebusiness #AIpredictions @purplefrogsys.bsky.social
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#shropshirebusiness #AIpredictions @purplefrogsys.bsky.social
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Delighted to go to the Centre for the New Midlands Winter Reception at the Houses of Parliament last night, hosted by Rachel Taylor MP and Saqib Bhatti MBE, in order to reflect on the achievements and successes of 2024.
#CNM #thinktank #digitalskills
#CNM #thinktank #digitalskills
December 13, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Delighted to go to the Centre for the New Midlands Winter Reception at the Houses of Parliament last night, hosted by Rachel Taylor MP and Saqib Bhatti MBE, in order to reflect on the achievements and successes of 2024.
#CNM #thinktank #digitalskills
#CNM #thinktank #digitalskills