Date: Thursday 20 August 2026
Time: 7am arrival for 7.30am start, until 11.30am
Venue: Hilton Garden Inn, Umhlanga Arch
Time: 7am arrival for 7.30am start, until 11.30am
Venue: Hilton Garden Inn, Umhlanga Arch
Why attend:
Scaling, exiting, or passing your business to the next generation won’t happen by accident. Success requires:
- A clear action plan with measurable outcomes.
- An aligned, purposeful team working towards a shared destination.
- A framework that drives growth, value, and succession.
The Blueprint equips you with exactly that, giving you the tools and clarity to make the big decisions with confidence.
“Real-world relatability to any business in any industry”
What you’ll walk away with:
By the end of the session, you will leave with a 3–5 year roadmap to grow your business, improve value, and secure its future. Your personalised blueprint will include:
- A distinct brand and clear purpose that drives market relevance.
- Engineered scale for predictable, consistent customer experiences.
- A motivated, effective team aligned with your growth goals.
- Four proven growth strategies to achieve measurable outcomes.
- A deep understanding of the five levers of company value.
- Practical tools to support valuation, capital raise, succession, or exit.
Host:
Johan Taljaard
Before investing in Aurik, Johan worked in mergers and acquisitions, where he saw the scale of the challenge facing business owners who believed they could sell their businesses.
Of the +-250 businesses he worked with over 8 years, 81% of these business owners could not sell their businesses. This corroborated his personal experiences of struggling to sell his own businesses.
Johan was already running his first business while qualifying for his B.Comm in Entrepreneurship. He subsequently started and built several companies across sectors including IT, Finance, Publishing and Digital marketing. For 10 years he ran a financing company that offered bridging and project finance, among other solutions. He spent 2 years in a large corporate, where he was a project manager on a range of FMCG projects. This accumulated experience developed his borderline-obsession with what he calls ‘the end game’: building a business so that it can be sold.
Presenter:
Pavlo Phitidis
As an entrepreneur, Pavlo Phitidis cut his teeth in turnaround companies. Then spent a few years in M&A, which allowed him to conclude 68 transactions before answering a call of duty in a family business, which enabled his parents’ retirement.
Pavlo co-founded Aurik by directly starting, growing and exiting 12 businesses to develop a business growth system, which has worked with upwards of 3,500 established companies in 4 countries.
Pavlo is a passionate advocate for business as a force for good and has brought this to life through more than 1,200 radio segments, two books, Sweat, Scale $ell and Reset, Rebuild, Reignite and hundreds of articles for columns across business and lifestyle titles.
Daily, he works with private business owners, personally and through his company, to resolve growth and value challenges.
Who should attend:
This workshop is for established private business owners and their key partners. If you’re serious about scaling, preparing for an exit, or creating a lasting business legacy, you need to be in the room.
Bring your leadership team so that everyone is aligned on your growth blueprint – the shared destination and measurable outcomes – and ready to execute across all functions of your business.
“Very informative and simplified a complex process”