Align as a team around a clear, shared way to grow, and turn it into practical steps you can use the following week. We build on your business, your customers, and your numbers. No theory, no talk-shop.
Key takeaways:
The forces of change are compounding. This session helps you focus your efforts where they count and execute with pace.
– Skills scarcity → design work into systems, not heroics
– Increased regulation → cleaner processes and reporting
– Customer scepticism → sharper positioning and proof at every step
– Accelerating technologies → tools that fit real workflows
– Moribund economy → tighter segmentation and value story
– Uncertain geopolitics → more resilient delivery
– Rising operating costs → efficiency protects margin
– Complex buying decisions → co-ordinated engagement across influencers
– Old marketing & sales playbooks → systemise, measure, improve
“Real-world relatability to any business in any industry”
Register here
Date: 17 February 2026
Time: 8.30am arrival for 9am start to 1pm
Venue: Consort
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, including:
Single purpose, one path: A co-created growth path everyone agrees to and follows.
Aligned as one team: One objective, shared priorities, clear ownership.
Co-ordinated execution: A joined-up plan across functions; marketing, sales, delivery and finance moving together.
Mutual accountability: Peers hold each other to commitments and cadence.
Clarity and line-of-sight: Cleaner interfaces between functions, fewer hand-offs.
Customer-led workflows (not silos): Predictable, joined-up customer experience.
Digitisation & productivity wins: Tech applied where measured work happens.
More time leading, less time doing: Simpler processes and delegation that hold.
Faster decisions, less friction: A familiar playbook and a weekly rhythm.
“Very informative and simplified a complex process”
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.
Host:
Gary Baker
After 10 years in the legal profession Gary changed direction to spend 17 years running and growing CD (UK) Ltd. Initially working with his father, Gary managed the transition to take over leading the business at the same time as finding a way to release value for his father. Gary then sold CDUK through an MBO process to the company’s Managing Director.
Having also gone through the ups and downs of founding an internet start-up business, Gary brings a unique set of experiences to Aurik that can help business owners scale and grow towards an exit or to succeed the business to the next generation.
