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CHRISTINE GRITMON
HIGHER VOLTAGE
07375 112833
christine@gritmon.com
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HIGHER VOLTAGE EVENT FOR SOLOPRENEURS IN LONDON
One-day conference at Battersea Power Station will help sole traders strengthen their business in 2026 and beyond
London, 13th November 2025
Higher Voltage is a one-day conference for solo business owners happening Thursday, 22nd January, 2026 at The Cinema in the Power Station, Battersea Power Station, Wandsworth, London.
This event is built around people who “are” their businesses—solopreneurs, sole traders, freelancers, side-hustlers, founder-led micro-businesses, etc.—representing a growing force in the UK economy.
3.1 million (56%) UK businesses accounted for in 2025 statistics from The Department for Business and Trade are registered as sole traders, and 4.3 million (75%) of all UK businesses do not employ anyone aside from the owners. The 2025 report directly credits the rise in total number of businesses in the UK by 191,000 between 2024 and 2025 to a 5% rise on sole traders, countering an 0.7% decrease in the number of employing businesses.
The all-female Higher Voltage speaker lineup includes successful British entrepreneurs Dani Wallace of IATQB.com and The Big Festoon, Sophie Lee of Electric Peach Studio, Sapna Pieroux of InnerVisions ID, Hannah Spence of Clockflower Solutions, coach and author Janine Coombes, online business expert Teresa Heath-Wareing, and founder Christine Gritmon, a personal branding coach and online creator who moved from New York to St Albans in 2023.
“I believe in the power of the individual, and of the small business owner whose business is an extension of themselves,” says Gritmon. “‘Small’ isn’t a disadvantage. It’s a superpower. It’s personal.”
The £200 ticket price includes:
7 speaker sessions that will jump-start your 2026 and spark inspiration in your business
Breakfast upon arrival
Lunch and all-day refreshments included
After-party and networking opportunities to mingle with fellow solopreneurs to build connections and collaborations
Online community engagement before and after the event
Discount opportunities from sponsors and partners
The day’s sessions:
Session One: Opening remarks from event founder and personal branding coach Christine Gritmon, including an introduction to her signature “Inside Out Personal Branding” framework as it relates to the rest of the day’s sessions.
Session Two: Founder of I Am The Queen Bee & The Big Festoon, VIP speaker coach Dani Wallace will hype us up with an inspiring talk about using your voice and being heard.
Session Three: Brand storytelling expert Sophie Lee of Electric Peach will give you the tools to tell your own brand story, and unlock your true personal and professional voice.
Session Four: Brand strategist & best-selling author Sapna Pieroux of InnerVisions ID will show you how your personal brand and your business brand can support each other.
Session Five: “Miss Be Seen” Hannah Spence of Clockflower Solutions will get you ready to amp up your visibility with confidence.
Session Six: Marketing coach for “coach-shaped people” Janine Coombes discusses how to craft the right offers that will be irresistible to your ideal customers.
Session Seven: Top-rated online business expert Teresa Heath-Wareing will teach us what does and doesn’t work for launching your online product offerings in 2026 and beyond.
Event Details:
Thursday, 22nd January, 2026
The Cinema in the Power Station
Battersea Power Station, London
Higher Voltage:
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More about all speakers:
Christine Gritmon
Location: St Albans
Christine Gritmon reconnects solopreneurs, freelancers, and small business owners with their purpose and passions for a more aligned personal brand that’s joyful, authentic, and impossible to ignore! She’s spoken on stages worldwide and is a frequent expert guest on podcasts, live streams, chats, and blog posts, as well as hosting her own podcast, Let’s Talk About Brand.
Organiser, Higher Voltage
Speaker of the Year Award, Excellence Awards, 2025
Digital Women Award, Community Champion, 2025
Dani Wallace
(DBA: I Am The Queen Bee; The Big Festoon)
Location: Preston
Dani is an International Public Speaking Coach who’s on a mission to help as many people as she can to use their voice and take up space in the world as they deserve.
Through her world class speaking courses, group programmes and LIVE in-person TEDx-style events, Dani helps people all over the world, from novices to celebrities, and enthusiastic amateurs to seven-figure earners, to create incredible talks that help them stand powerfully on stage, reaching more of their ideal audiences and making more money!
(And who doesn’t want that?!)
Teresa Heath-Wareing
Location: Shropshire
Teresa is an award-winning speaker, best selling author, podcaster and 6 figure online business owner! And she helps business owners like you to build a life and business they dream of!
2024 Digital women Role Model of the year
International Best Selling AuthorTEDx speaker
Host of a number 1 ranked podcast - Your Dream Business Podcast. And top 50 health podcast - Losing Part of Me
Certified Mindset Coach
One of the UK’s leading marketing influencers
Sophie Lee
(DBA: Electric Peach Studio)
Location: Leeds
Sophie helps impact-led leaders stand up and stand out through impossible-to-ignore storytelling and electric connection building. You'll learn how to harness the power of your voice and use your influence to lead with vision and purpose.
As an award-winning NCTJ-qualified journalist and brand strategist, Sophie takes a story-first approach to brand communications and has grown multi-million dollar organisations by keeping them at the front of industry conversations. She’s passionate about the potential for businesses to drive cultural and systemic change, and works with change-maker brands committed to responsible business practice and prioritising people and the planet alongside profit.
Sophie is a non-exec director of The Organisation for Responsible Business and a mentor with Enterprise Nation. She’s here to support you to find your voice and make some noise, harnessing the power of storytelling to attract new audiences and galvanise them to action.
Sapna Pieroux
(DBA: InnerVisions ID)
Location: London
Motivational and expert speaker, multi-award-winning brand consultant and best-selling author, Sapna has been building brands for over 30 years. Nicknamed ‘SuperSaps’ by her clients, she brings superhero energy to the stage for engaging and unforgettable talks on personal and business brand that hit both hearts and minds.
After 20 years in corporate (Chrysalis, emap, The Telegraph, Mirror Group and O2), with clients such as Mercedes, L’Oreal and Sony Ericsson, she now uses her big-brand experience to build entrepreneurial and SME brands ‘beyond the logo’
Sapna’s #1 best-selling book “Let’s Get Visible!” won aBusiness Book Award. She uses her VISION Process® to align Personal & Business Brands for leaders and teams, supercharging success, using a powerful and holistic mix of brand strategy, design and coaching.
Sapna has been a brand partner for Rethink Press, and mentor for Shifts to Success, is the resident brand expert in two business groups, a mentor at the University of West London and guest lectures at Hult International Business School, Brunel and NorthumbriaUniversities.
She is also a volunteer stylist at Smart Works charity, and founder of The NotWorkers – joyful connection for business owners who hate networking!
Hannah Spence
(DBA: Clockflower Solutions; Miss Be Seen)
Location: Kent
Hannah Spence aka Miss Be Seen is a multiple-award-winning entrepreneur, educator, mother, and social media strategist on a mission to help underrepresented business owners and professionals be seen, celebrated, and successful on the socials and beyond.
After quitting her career as a primary school teacher in 2023, Hannah took the leap into entrepreneurship and founded Clockflower Solutions. What began as a social media consultancy has since evolved into a visibility hub, combining strategy, storytelling, and community.
Her passion? Creating spaces and strategies where people who are too often overlooked can show up with confidence, share their brilliance, and unlock opportunities that change the game for their business, career, and community.
Janine Coombes
Location: Hampshire
Janine Coombes is a marketing consultant specialising in service offer positioning, messaging and pricing for ambitious coach-shaped-people. She’s a dynamic and engaging speaker who has shared the stage with Deborah Meaden and regularly appears on internationally renowned stages such as Atomicon, MarketEd Live and You Are The Media. She published her first book, “The Easy Yes®,” in 2025.
With over 20 years of experience she has an extensive background in business and marketing having worked with big brands like EE, Orange and Europcar as well as hundreds of entrepreneurs and service based business owners.
Her sweet spot is helping coaches and consultants to earn drastically more from their 1:1 services without slogging their guts out or moving to a more complicated business model. She has a business degree, a post-graduate marketing diploma (CIM Dip).