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26 June 2025 London, United Kingdom

Scale up and growth 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

Key takeaways:

“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.

This event is supported by BKL, a Top 40 accountancy and advisory firm. BKL works with entrepreneurs, high-net-worth individuals, and owner-managed businesses, providing a comprehensive range of services including tax consultancy, audit and assurance, accounts, and corporate finance.


Date: 26 June 2025 
Time: 2pm arrival for 2.30pm start to 6.30pm, including refreshment breaks. 
Venue: Wilson Wright BKL, 5 Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RD

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.

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

“Very informative and simplified a complex process”

Register here



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30 July 2025 Durban, South Africa

29 Nov

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.

Johan Taljaard

Johan Taljaard

Johan is one of the directors of Aurik Business Cape Town & KZN. 

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.

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: Wednesday 30 July 2025
Time: 7.00 arrival for 7.30am start to 12pm 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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asset of value event

1 August 2025 Johannesburg, South Africa

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

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.

Wesley-Mark Jonsson

Johan Taljaard

Wesley leads the business development team at Aurik Business, Johannesburg. He works with business owners everyday to resolve issues of growth and value


Date: Friday 1 August 2025
Time: 7.00 arrival for 7.30am start to 12pm including a light breakfast and networking
Venue: Protea Fire & Ice, 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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6 August 2025 Cape Town, South Africa

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

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.

Johan Taljaard

Johan Taljaard

Johan is one of the directors of Aurik Business Cape Town & KZN.

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.

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: Wednesday 6 August 2025
Time: 7.00 arrival for 7.30am start to 12pm including a light breakfast and networking
Venue: Doubletree by Hilton, 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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Furniture Makers Company Scale up and Growth Blueprint workshop 6 June London

29 Nov

This 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”

Host:

Gary Baker

Gary

After 10 years in the legal profession Gary changed direction to spend 17 years running and growing CD (UK) Ltd, and a corporate member of the Furniture Makers Company.
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.

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.


Date:        Friday 6th June 2025
Time:       9.30am arrival for 10am start to 2pm
Venue:     Furniture Makers Hall, 12 Austin Friars, London, EC2N 2HE 

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 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”

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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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Scale before growth, rinse and repeat

Scale before growth, rinse and repeat

This Week@Work, sustained growth needs a reinforced commercial platform. The perils of growing off a weak commercial foundation can cost you your business, self-confidence and future legacy.

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