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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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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?


Register here



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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Build your business battleplan in a 3 hour workshop

Aurik build your scaleup and growth blueprint Kwa Zulu Natal 3 February 2026

Build your business battleplan in a 3 hour workshop

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”

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

CHRISTO

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: 03 February  2026
Time: 7am arrival for 7.30am start to 11.30am including a light breakfast and networking 
Venue: TBC

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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Build your business battleplan in a 3 hour workshop

Aurik build your scaleup and growth blueprint Cape Town 5 February 2026

Build your business battleplan in a 3 hour workshop

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”

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: TBC

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 Namibia About and Contact

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, grow and secure value in your business

Fully booked

We work with established business owners and their teams to execute a proven business growth system.

We use data, tech and expert facilitators to build businesses into sustainable, wealth generating assets

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%

We link up to 70% of our fees to performance therefore aligning goals, interests and focus, to ensure we deliver a growth outcome, not hourly paid advice

Resolve your challenges to growth including:

  • Growth is stagnant & needs to accelerate
  • Get the right people to do the right thing at the right time
  • Increasing complexity causes chaos in the business
  • Create more time to lead & spend less time doing
  • Transfer operational & management responsibilities to the team

We get this right by building your business into an Asset of Value. 

This is a business that is positioned to win in a changing world, enabled by reliable operating procedures and systems, and empowered by a purposeful team to generate consistent organic growth

Asset of Value


Meet the leadership team

Pavlo

Christo Swartz 

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.
Call/whatsapp Christo: +264 81 417 5689
Email Christo: christo@aurik.com

Gary

Fanie Steenkamp

Fanie has more than 20 years of experience in corporate and commercial banking. He has an MBA an is a director of Aurik Namibia, working daily with business owners to overcome challenges of growth and value.
Call/whatsapp Fanie: +264 81 126 6528
Email Fanie: Fanie@aurik.com


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Build your business battleplan in a 3 hour workshop

Aurik build your scaleup and growth blueprint workshop Leeds 19 March 2025

Build your business BLUEPRINT


This event has passed.
You can view upcoming Aurik events focused on building your business into an asset of value here: aurik.com/events

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.

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.


Date: 19th March 2025 
Time: 8.30am arrival for 9am start to 1pm including a light breakfast and networking
Venue: Progeny offices, 1A Tower Square, Leeds LS1 4DL

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 build your scaleup and growth blueprint workshop Johannesburg 4 April 2025

Aurik build your scaleup and growth blueprint workshop Johannesburg 4 April 2025

This event has passed. You can view upcoming Aurik events focused on helping you build your business into an asset of value here: aurik.com/events

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.


Date: 4th April 2025 
Time: 7.00am for 7.30am start, until 12pm including a light breakfast and networking
Venue: Protea Fire & Ice Hotel, Melrose 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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Build your business battleplan in a 3 hour workshop

Aurik build your scaleup and growth blueprint Windhoek 10 April 2025

Build your business battleplan in a 3 hour workshop


This event has passed.
You can view upcoming Aurik events focused on building your business into an asset of value here: aurik.com/events

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”

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:

Christo Swartz & Fanie Steenkamp

CHRISTO

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


Date: 10 April 2025 
Time: 8am for 8:30am start to 1pm including a light breakfast and networking 
Venue: The Weinberg Hotel, Windhoek

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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Build your business battleplan in a 3 hour workshop

Aurik build your scaleup and growth blueprint Walvis Bay 11 April 2025

Build your business BLUEPRINT

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


This event has passed.
You can view upcoming Aurik events focused on building your business into an asset of value here: aurik.com/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”

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.

Christo Swartz & Fanie Steenkamp

CHRISTO

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


Date: 11 April 2025 
Time: 8am arrival for 8:30am start to 1pm including a light breakfast and networking 
Venue: The Protea Hotel, Walvis Bay, Pelican Bay

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 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.



Register here



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