09Jan 2026

Milton Keynes Business Networking Meeting - Set Your Goals for 2026

'10 Minute Tip' by Joe Pendle - Practical Goal Setting - 7am until 9:30am

Joe Pendle From Blue Zeon has had a long and successful career.  To achieve that success Joe has learnt how to set and achieve the right goals.  He's kindly agreed to share his knowledge with everybody at The Business Growth Club Milton Keynes.

Before joining BlueZeon as their Account Director in 2023, Joe spent 42 years working in the Insurance Industry. He was a claims specialist and was Group Operations Director of MIB in Milton Keynes for 8 years.

Then Joe joined Verisk (a publicly traded data and analytics company) as the Managing Director of their Insurance Claims Division in Europe and the Far East. When he joined Verisk in January 2004 the UK business was just 7 people in a Regus office in Hampshire with turnover of £700,000. By August 2022 Joe had helped grow turnover to £35,000,000 with over 500 staff.

Joe attributes a lot of his own personal success and his teams success to his goal setting skills. He also trained his team to set their goals.


About the conversation:

Setting Your Goals for 2026

You need to start with good data so this tip will start with some goal setting data to help you.

There are so many reason why people like you and I don't set goals.  If you understand why you don't set goals you'll be able to understand how to change your habits and start setting meaningful goals.

There is more than one type of goal.  Joe will be sharing with you the various types of goals so you can understand which ones will be most successful for you.

You need to be able to see what life will look like when you achieve your goals so you can plan how to get there.  Joe will be sharing tips on visualisation and goal planning.

Doing anything on your own is far harder than doing the same thing with the right support.  Learn how to share your goals with the right people so they can help you achieve them.

There will be plenty of opportunities for questions and answers.

Goal setting is an incredibly important skill which is very appropriate for business owners and professionals as well as life in general.  Do you know how to do it well?