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Build your business battleplan in a 3 hour workshop

Aurik build your leadership team’s scaleup and growth blueprint

Build your business battleplan in a 3 hour workshop

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”

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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 

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:

Gary Baker 

Gary

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.


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Aurik scaleup and grow business blue print

Registration Details Allica Bank 11 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.

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Download the details for the Digitisation Session 

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Wednesday 11 February 2026 
9am to 10.30am 
Allica Bank, High Street, Manchester 

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

KZN Workshop


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MOSTE

Online CEO Session: Digitise Your Business

Join a 90 minute working session for a non-tech approach to digitising your business. 


CEO Session: Digitise Your Business

MOSTE webinar

Date: Wednesday11 February 2026 
Time: 09h00 to 10h30 including Q&A
Venue: Allica Bank, High street, Manchester

This practical, non-technical workshop is for established business owners with between 15 and 150 employees who want to:

  • Digitise with purpose and intent, not panic
  • Scale their business without increasing chaos
  • Boost productivity and team performance without becoming more dependent
  • Unlock time and headspace to lead, not react
  • Increase company value and future saleability
  • An interest in removing dependency, improving team performance, and avoiding wasted tech investments

Whether you’re in manufacturing, services, retail, or distribution, if you’re a business owner driving growth, signing off the tech budget, and carrying the weight of the business, this is built for you.

What You’ll Get From It

Five crisp, practical outcomes:

  1. Clarity on what to digitise — and what not to
    → You’ll map your systems and identify high-impact digital wins.
  2. A practical tool to build and test your digitisation use case
    → No more wasted spend, broken adoption, or tech that no one uses.
  3. A business-first lens on tech decisions
    → You’ll learn how to align systems and digitisation with your scale strategy.
  4. A scorecard to evaluate every future tech investment
    → Confident go/no-go decisions that build value, not cost.
  5. The confidence to lead your team through change
    → You’ll leave with a blueprint to drive productivity, profitability, and performance,  without being a tech expert.

 This Is Not For

  • Startups or microbusinesses
  • Delegated tech managers (this is for owners)
  • People looking for software demos or platforms to buy

Who should attend?


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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.

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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”

Register here



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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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Aurik scaleup and grow business blue print

Registration Details Aurik Online Webinar 29 October 2025

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 Build Your Business Backwards – Create Your Future With Certainty Webinar

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

Wednesday 29 October 2025
9am to 10am

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

Aurik Build your Business Backwards Online session


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29 October 2025, Online, Webinar

Aurik Build your Business Backwards Online session

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Closure, handover, or sale – every business ends one of three ways.
The question is: Will it be by design or default?

Join us for a powerful, fast-paced session that flips the script:
Build your business backwards – start with your desired endgame and engineer your business to meet it.

In just 45 minutes, you’ll:

  • Understand the four calculators for four future outcomes
  • Measure the gap between where you are and where you want to be
  • Learn the architecture to scale, grow, and embed value with intent
  • Shift from reacting to events to taking control of your destiny

This is not theory. It’s action. Designed for business owners who are:
– Seasoned, successful, ambitious
– Under pressure but unwilling to compromise the future
– Ready for a new way to lead, grow, and exit, but on your terms

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

Host & 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 4,000 established companies in 5 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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Your Customers Don’t Care What You Sell

Your Customers Don’t Care What You Sell

They care about the problem you solve.

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