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.

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

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.

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.

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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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.