Based in Umgeni Business Park in Durban, Supafoods has established itself as a trusted manufacturer and supplier within South Africa’s bakery and food supply sector. What began as a modest operation has grown into a fully equipped food manufacturing facility, supplying bakery ingredients to retail groups, independent bakeries and community-based organisations across the country.
Join a closed-door roundtable for established private business owners ready to build a business that can run, grow and endure — without the owner being front and centre of everything.
But many successful businesses quietly become dependent on the owner’s judgement, energy and daily presence.
At a certain stage, that dependency isn’t a motivation problem.
It’s structural.
This roundtable is for owners asking a more valuable question:
“If I stepped back, what would actually keep this business performing?”
In established businesses, owner-dependency usually shows up as:
Decisions sitting too high
Execution relying on tacit knowledge
Systems that exist but aren’t consistently used
Teams that work hard but don’t fully own outcomes
Growth increasing pressure instead of reducing it
These are common patterns in growing businesses and they’re solvable with the right structure.
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.
Christo is a born entrepreneur and a chartered accountant with senior financial leadership experience in large financial services corporates. He founded Alora Financial Partners in Windhoek, Namibia, and brought Aurik to the region.
Fanie has more than 20 years of experience in corporate and commercial banking, as well as an MBA to his name. He is the co-principal of Aurik Namibia
This is not a seminar, keynote or motivational session.
It’s a practical, peer-level discussion led by Pavlo Phitidis, bringing together experienced owners to explore how businesses are deliberately built into Assets of Value™ businesses that:
Run on systems, not personalities
Perform without constant owner intervention
Can be handed over, stepped back from or sold at a premium value
The conversation is grounded, candid and focused on real constraints and real decisions.
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:
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”
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.
This practical, non-technical workshop is for established business owners with between 15 and 150 employees who want to:
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:
This Is Not For
Who should attend?
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.
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.
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”
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”
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.
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.
This practical, non-technical workshop is for established business owners with between 15 and 150 employees who want to:
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:
This Is Not For
Who should attend?
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.
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:
“Real-world relatability to any business in any industry”
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.
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.
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”
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:
“Real-world relatability to any business in any industry”
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.
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.
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”
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:
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”
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.
Hosted by internationally recognised speaker, author, investor and business growth expert, Pavlo Phitidis, this workshop is designed to help established business owners and their leadership team design an actionable scale-up and growth blueprint.
In this dynamic and practical session, you will:
This is not theory. It’s a proven framework, customised to your business, delivered in an engaging, entertaining, eye-opening and highly practical way.
“Real-world relatability to any business in any industry”
Scaling, exiting, or passing your business to the next generation won’t happen by accident. Success requires:
The Blueprint equips you with exactly that by giving you the tools and clarity to make the big decisions with confidence.
“Reduced the complexity in my business to numbers and a reality check”
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:
“Very informative and simplified a complex process”
This workshop is for established private business owners and their senior leaders. 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.
“Insightful and Enjoyable, simple and practical to understand ”
Register to be notified 8 weeks ahead of the next Scaleup Blueprint Workshop in your city. Registration is free and carries no obligations to attend the Blueprint Workshop. Seats are limited per workshop and should you miss the next one, you will be notified ahead of the one that follows
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 4,500 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.