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Aurik CEO Session: Digitise Your Business 29 January 2026

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

CEO Session: Digitise Your Business

MOSTE webinar

Date: Thursday 29 January 2026 
Time: 09h00 to 10h00 SAST including Q&A
Venue: Zoom, link supplied on registration

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 leadership team’s scaleup and growth blueprint

Written by pippa@aurik.com on . Posted in Uncategorized.

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

Written by pippa@aurik.com on . Posted in Uncategorized.

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

Written by Lindokuhle Ntombela on . Posted in Events, Uncategorized.

Build Your ScaleUp & Growth

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.

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 build your scaleup and growth blueprint Cape Town 5 February 2026

Written by Lindokuhle Ntombela on . Posted in Events, Uncategorized.

Build Your ScaleUp & Growth

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: 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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29 October 2025, Online, Webinar

Written by Lindokuhle Ntombela on . Posted in Uncategorized.

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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Register for a Scale Up & Growth Blueprint Workshop

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BUILD YOUR SCALE UP & GROWTH BLUEPRINT

A 4-Hour Hands-On Business Workshop

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: 

  • Clarify your 3-5 year destination by defining your intent and purpose 
  • Understand the recurring impediments to scale, growth and value 
  • Build a customised action plan to resolve the impediments and accelerate growth 
  • Access the 5 levers of growth and value to use a leadership framework 

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”

Why Attend?

Scaling, exiting, or passing your business to the next generation won’t happen by accident. Success requires: 

  • A clear action plan with measurable outcomes. 
  • An aligned, purposeful team working towards a shared destination. 
  • A framework that enables it while driving growth, value, and succession. 

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”

What you’ll walk away with

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: 

  • A distinct brand and clear purpose that drives market relevance. 
  • Engineered scale for predictable, consistent customer experiences. 
  • A motivated, effective team aligned with your growth goals. 
  • Three proven growth strategies to achieve measurable outcomes. 
  • A deep understanding of the five levers of company value. 

“Very informative and simplified a complex process”

Who Should Attend?

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 ”

Your Next Step

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



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 4,500 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.

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Aurik Namibia About and Contact

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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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30 July 2025 Durban, South Africa

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29 Nov

Register here



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”

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”

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 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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asset of value event

1 August 2025 Johannesburg, South Africa

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Joburg business 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

Register here



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”

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”

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.

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