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Author: Lindokuhle Ntombela

The World’s on Fire. Build Anyway.

The World’s on Fire. Build Anyway.

Opportunity hides in chaos — if you know where to look.

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Leadership Fails Without These 3 Foundations

Leadership Fails Without These 3 Foundations

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Stop Fighting Change. Engineer It Into Your Business.

Stop Fighting Change. Engineer It Into Your Business.

Do less. Grow more. Let your model do the heavy lifting.

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Digitisation isn’t just about your product — it’s how you get your products to market that counts.

Digitise to Deliver, Not Just to Dazzle

Digitisation isn’t just about product — it’s how you get it to market that counts

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Aurik build your scaleup and growth blueprint Kwa Zulu Natal 3 February 2026

Build Your ScaleUp & Growth

This event has closed. Please visit our events page to find current and upcoming events. 

Key takeaways:

Identify Your Growth Impediments:
Spot recurring impediments to growth and value and how to resolve them

Design Your Actionable Scaleup Blueprint:

Develop a three-to-five-year roadmap to deliver growth, improved value, and operational and management succession. Including:

  • Crafting a lasting Brand distinction and clear Purpose
  • Engineered scale delivering predictable, consistent customer experiences
  • Building a motivated, effective team
  • 4 growth strategies to achieve defined outcomes
  • An understanding of the 5 levers of company value
  • Embedding the levers to support valuation, capital raise, succession and exits

“Real-world relatability to any business in any industry”

Presenter:

Pavlo Phitidis 

Pavlo

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.

Host:

Kate Lax

CHRISTO

Kate has extensive experience in change management for organisations of all sizes and her passion for helping people and organisations to excel has delivered meaningful results for the clients she works with at Aurik.

She believes that a synergy and balance between people, processes and systems make all the difference in businesses and  considers it a privilege to work with business owners to build their businesses into Assets of Value™.
Kate is the business principal for Aurik KwaZulu Natal and Aurik Cape Town.


Date: 03 February  2026
Time: 7am arrival for 7.30am start to 11.30am including a light breakfast and networking 
Venue: Hilton Garden Inn, Umhlanga Arch

Outcomes:

Leave with a practical, customised, actionable blueprint to implement in your business the next day, setting you on a clear path to achieving your ambitions.

“Very informative and simplified a complex process”

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Aurik scaleup and grow business blue print

Registration Details Aurik KZN 03 February 2026

Join us for 55 minutes on 29th September to understand how we have gotten this right, and how we would work with you and your team to achieve the same, or more.

You’re registered!
Download the details for the Scaleup and Growth Blueprint workshop. 

Click on the button to download the diary entry and save it into your calendar. 

Tuesday 03 February 2026
7am arrival for 7.30am start to 11.30am
Venue: Hilton Garden Inn, Umhlanga Arch 

We will be in touch nearer the time and look forward to seeing you there. 

KZN Workshop


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Aurik build your scaleup and growth blueprint Cape Town 5 February 2026

Build Your ScaleUp & Growth

This event has closed. Visit the events tab to find out about upcoming events 

Key takeaways:

Identify Your Growth Impediments:
Spot recurring impediments to growth and value and how to resolve them

Design Your Actionable Scaleup Blueprint:

Develop a three-to-five-year roadmap to deliver growth, improved value, and operational and management succession. Including:

  • Crafting a lasting Brand distinction and clear Purpose
  • Engineered scale delivering predictable, consistent customer experiences
  • Building a motivated, effective team
  • 4 growth strategies to achieve defined outcomes
  • An understanding of the 5 levers of company value
  • Embedding the levers to support valuation, capital raise, succession and exits

“Real-world relatability to any business in any industry”

Presenter:

Pavlo Phitidis 

Pavlo

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.

Hosts:

Johan Taljaard

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.


Date: 05 February 2026 
Time: 7am arrival for 7.30am start to 11.30am including a light breakfast and networking 
Venue: The Old Biscuit Mill, Woodstock, Cape Town 

Outcomes:

Leave with a practical, customised, actionable blueprint to implement in your business the next day, setting you on a clear path to achieving your ambitions.

“Very informative and simplified a complex process”

Register here



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asset of value event

Registration Details Aurik Cape Town 5 February 2026

Join us for 55 minutes on 29th September to understand how we have gotten this right, and how we would work with you and your team to achieve the same, or more.

You’re registered!
Download the details for the Scaleup and Growth Blueprint workshop. 

Click on the button to download the diary entry and save it into your calendar. 

Thursday 05 February 2026
7am arrival for 7.30am start to 11.30am
Venue: The Old Biscuit Mill, King Protea Room, 375 Albert Road, Woodstock, Cape Town 

Parking: 

Please note there is no parking at the venue, parking is over the road at the College of Cape Town. 

 Access to this parking is from Kent Street via the Salt River Circle or Devon Road from the Main Road.

 Please review your options at this link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/KKs7cHtFutGtkb4eA

There will be marshals on site indicating where to cross over to The Old Biscuit Mill

There is no charge for parking

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You’ll Die at Your Desk Unless You Fix This

You’ll Die at Your Desk Unless You Fix This

No sale. No exit. No reward.

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Is Your Tech Just Shiny — or Making You Money?

Is Your Tech Just Shiny – or Making You Money?

Digitisation without strategy is just expensive noise.

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