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100 Episodes on, and we want to hear from you

This Week@Work tell us what business issues you want to get more insights on next year. We are marking 100 episodes of the series and are taking a break over the holidays to plan for the new year. We’d love to incorporate your ideas, please share them in the short poll below.

Aurik business blueprint Joburg 5th November 2024

Join us for 55 minutes on 3rd November to understand  how we would work with you and your team to achieve your business goals and ambitions. 


Your CEO business blueprint to scale, grow and dominate your industry!

Fully booked

Date: 5th November 2024 
Time: 7am for 7.30 start to 12noon
Venue: African Pride Melrose Arch

Gain perspectives, insights, actions and connections with growth-minded business owners while you build an actionable CEO business blueprint to scale, grow and secure the value of your business as you walk out of the door.

For 16 years, Aurik has partnered with over 3 500 businesses to deliver average annual growth rates of 28.9% and average EBIDTA growth of 32.4%

Join us on 5th November 2024  to meet, greet, engage and emerge with insights, strategies, tactics and approaches to tackling the biggest impediments to business growth and value.

Facilitated by Pavlo Phitidis, he will challenge you on your business, and inspire you with real stories of business owners like yourself, who are getting it right.

Walk out with: 

  • A single strategy that will deliver growth despite the business environment
  • Your CEO blueprint to scale, grow & dominate your industry
  • Your business’s value – the number now, the number you want and a plan on how to achieve it
  • Insights, perspectives and inspiration from, as well as relationships with, established, growth-minded business owners

Presenter

Pavlo Phitidis

As an entrepreneur and investor, Pavlo offers over 25 years of direct experience in conceptualising and building businesses across three continents. He has developed and brought to market business assets in excess of $450m through a combination of business start-ups, turnarounds, sales and acquisitions. Using his hands-on experience, business capabilities and relationship networks, he continues to support the growth of business owners through Aurik , a venture capital business growth service.

Pavlo is a regular media commentator, an international speaker on business growth and author of the best-selling, Sweat Scale $ell as well as his newest title: Reset Rebuild Reignite.

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Aurik business blueprint workshops

Join us for 55 minutes on 3rd November to understand  how we would work with you and your team to achieve your business goals and ambitions. 


Invest your time and attention to work ON your business not IN it

Fully booked

Register to be notified of upcoming workshops in your region

Gain perspectives, insights, actions and connections with growth-minded business owners while you build an actionable CEO business blueprint to scale, grow and secure the value of your business as you walk out of the door.

Create your customised blueprint to achieve your ambitions, whether that be to:

  • Scale and grow
  • Scale to exit
  • Succession to the next generation

Facilitated by Pavlo Phitidis, he will challenge you on your business, and inspire you with real stories of business owners like yourself, who are getting it right.

“A great workshop. Good to be given a structure to apply various thoughts and action that were previously scattered everywhere.”

Invest your time & attention and walk out armed with a blueprint to lead both as an operator and an investor in your business 

As an operator, an actionable blueprint that will deliver: 

  • A distinct brand position
  • A reliable and predictable customer fulfilment experience
  • A motivated, effective team
  • A shift from operating to leading your business
  • 4 growth strategies across your business lifecycle
  • A value-lock to increase valuations

As an investor, understand the 5 levers of company value: 

  • How they work
  • How to craft them
  • How to embed them
  • How to use them

Presenter

Pavlo Phitidis

As an entrepreneur, Pavlo Phitidis cut his teeth in turnaround companies. He 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.



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AGENDA

Business Blueprint Workshop presented by Pavlo Phitidis, Aurik:

During our 4-hour workshop, you will leave with a bespoke business growth plan. This plan, tailored to your ambition, resources, and timeline, will help create a clear and distinct wealth-generating objective, a strategy to achieve it, and the tactics to implement it. We aim to help you build your business into an Asset of Value, setting you on a path to success and financial freedom.

Pavlo

Pavlo Phitidis

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.

Click HERE for more on Pavlo and to connect on LInkedin

Wealth planning presented by abcdef, Titan

Over a …-hour workshop, walk out with a …………………

Pavlo
Pavlo Phitidis
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.
Click HERE for more on Pavlo and to connect on LInkedin

13 February 2025 Aurik Cape Town

29 Nov

This full-morning workshop is designed for business owners ready to take their company to the next level. Be it scale-up growth, succession or an exit, walk out with a customised, actionable blueprint to attain your 3–5-year ambitions

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”

Hosts & Presenters:

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.

Johan Taljaard

Johan Taljaard

Johan is one of the directors of Aurik Business Cape Town & KZN. 

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.

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: 13 February 2024 
Time: 7.00 arrival for 7.30am start to 11.30am including a light breakfast and networking
Venue: DoubleTree by Hilton, 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”

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aurik asset of value event, pavlo phitidis

18 February 2025 Aurik Kwa Zulu Natal

29 Nov

This full-morning workshop is designed for business owners ready to take their company to the next level. Be it scale-up growth, succession or an exit, walk out with a customised, actionable blueprint to attain your 3–5-year ambitions

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”

Hosts & Presenters:

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.

Johan Taljaard

Johan Taljaard

Johan is one of the directors of Aurik Business Cape Town & KZN. 

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.

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: 18 February 2025
Time: 7.00 arrival for 7.30am start to 12pm 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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Business battleplan

9 May 2024 networking and insights York

Join us for 55 minutes on 3rd November to understand  how we would work with you and your team to achieve your business goals and ambitions. 


Scale your own business by protecting and growing your clients’ businesses

Aurik business battleplan Joburg 16 February 2024

Date: 9 May 2024 
Time: 5pm for 5.30pm to 6.30pm followed by networking drinks
Venue: Novotel, Fishergate, YO10 4FD YORK

Distinguish your firm as a scale up champion by both protecting your clients against risk and supporting their growth.

Your private business clients have probably invested everything in their business: money, time, energy and sacrifice. They tend to be so focused on running the business, they don’t step back to look out for threats and opportunities.

Join us for an insight and networking session to gain perspectives on three critical issues which any business owner needs to have planned for, and seldom considers until it it’s too late:

  • The 9  growth challenges facing every business
    Gary Baker, CEO Aurik
  • What happens to a business if a shareholder dies?
    Neil Huntington, Director, Huntington Ross
  • The Importance of a Business Power of Attorney
    Maria Beckwith, Founder and Director, Wills @ Home Ltd

Hosts & Presenters:

Gary Baker

Gary brings a set of experiences from legal, to start up, through to the successful sale of his company through an MBO, to help business owners scale and grow towards an exit or to succeed the business to the next generation.

Neil Huntington 

Neil is in his 30th year in financial services, most of that as an Independent Financial Adviser. Latterly with a focus on helping business owners reduce their tax bills, look after their money and protect the things that are important to them. 

Maria Beckwith 

Maria has >37 years’ work experience across Banking, Financial Services and Estate Planning. Maria qualified as a Financial Advisor in 1992 and has a plethora of experience working for large international corporations.

After establishing Wills @ Home in 2009, Maria completed the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Advanced Certificate in Will Preparation for England and Wales. Maria’s estate planning knowledge and robust financial background allows her to aid clients in making informed decisions when planning their Wills, Trusts and Lasting Powers of Attorney.


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