Improve Your Business One Slice of Toast at a Time

WIth Dave Stubberfield of carter consultancy

A slice of toast might seem simple, but it’s all about timing, the right tools, and personal taste. Whether it’s lightly golden or deeply crunchy, toast is a small but deliberate creation – just like building a business that truly resonates with customers.
 
In this breakout session, we’ll use the humble slice of toast as a powerful metaphor for business growth. From choosing the bread (your people and processes) to selecting your toppings (your customer experience and brand), every step represents a choice in how you shape your business. We’ll explore how small, intentional changes in daily operations, employee behaviour, and customer touchpoints can lead to meaningful, long-term impact.
 
Get ready for a practical, thought-provoking session on how to make growth a consistent part of your culture — no grand gestures required, just better habits and smarter thinking, one slice at a time.

12th march 2026 - 9:15am

"A slice of toast might seem simple, but it’s all about timing, the right tools, and personal taste."

AIMS

  • Demonstrate how business growth stems from small, thoughtful decisions made consistently.
  • Highlight the importance of aligning your people, processes, and platforms to customer expectations.
  • Provide easy-to-adopt tactics that can immediately improve both internal culture and external experience.
  • Encourage leaders to see everyday moments, like making toast, as opportunities to improve.
  • Showcase the power of simplicity in driving Continuous Improvement techniques and customer loyalty.

CONTENT

  • The anatomy of a slice of toast: using everyday actions to explore improvement, consistency, and creativity.
  • Real-life examples of small business changes delivering outsized results.
  • Introduction to Carter Consultancy’s five-element framework through the “toast” lens.
  • Tools to identify where your business might be burning the toast – and how to fix it.

OUTCOMES

  • Discover practical strategies for embedding Continuous Improvement into your business routines.
  • Learn how to make customer and employee experiences more intentional, consistent, and engaging.
  • Walk away with a renewed mindset for driving growth through simplicity and daily actions.
  • Feel empowered to apply change management principles in your business.