You've worked hard to build your business. Does it still give you the life you want?
The decisions that make a business more valuable, before you need them.
Save my seatSmall working group · Online · No cost
You can run a business that pays you well and still not own an asset that's worth anything without you standing in the middle of it.
The more your business depends on you personally, the fewer choices you have about your own involvement. The same is true of any one leader, customer or supplier the business cannot do without.
If your business can't run a normal week without you in the middle of it, that isn't proof you built it badly. It usually means the business has entered a new chapter, and the role that built it hasn't moved with it.
Markets, technology, competitors and your own ambitions shift. Chapters change before leaders notice. We look at what has moved in your business while the way you run it stayed the same.
Some decisions create value. Some capture value already built. Others, when delayed, let value erode quietly. You'll find the decision inside what you brought, and see what another year of leaving it costs.
What your business is worth, and the freedom it gives you, are two kinds of value. They can pull apart. Profit only becomes value when no single person, customer or supplier is indispensable to producing it.
The aim: you leave having named the decision inside what you brought, what delaying it costs, and the foundation it needs.
You'll also get our framework for building more value: Clarity on what you're trying to achieve, Capacity to carry the decision, and the Connection that makes it hold. It's yours to use, whether or not we ever work together.
Each part ends with a short exercise on your own situation. You don't need to share it with the group unless you want to. Bring the thing you keep coming back to: a situation, an issue, a question, or a decision. Most owners arrive with a situation. Part of the work is finding the decision inside it.
The goal is not growth for the sake of growth. The goal is a more valuable business: one that keeps giving you options about how, and on what terms, you're involved. Three things decide whether it does.
Judgement, and leaders who can carry it when you're not in the room.
It's rarely about their ability. It's about how decisions are set up to flow.
Technology amplifies whatever you've built, including your dependence.
20+ years leading portfolios inside listed groups, including EOH, Altron and Blue Label. Igshaan helps owner-CEOs of established businesses identify the decisions narrowing their future options, then build the leadership, organisational and technology capabilities their next chapter requires.
It's built around owner-CEOs, but if you lead a division or business unit, you'll recognise most of it. I spent 20+ years leading portfolios inside listed groups, and the same decisions come up there. Bring the thing you keep coming back to in your part of the business.
Yes, especially if you work with owner-led businesses. You'll see how I help an owner find the decision inside a situation, and you're welcome to use the framework with your clients. And your practice is a business too, often the one that depends most on you.
No. The exercises are private unless you choose to share.
Yes, but there's no replay. Registrants won't receive the recording, so the only way to take part is to join live. Anything you share in the session stays in the session.
There's one offer at the end, a Strategy Session, for owners who want to take their decision further. That's all.
There's no fee. What it does ask of you is 90 minutes of full attention and one real situation you're willing to work on.
15:00 to 16:30 SAST · Online, Zoom · No cost
I run these sessions so owners can see how I think before deciding whether working together is worth exploring. If you want to work on it further afterwards, the next step is a Strategy Session. That's the only offer you'll hear about.
You'll get the joining link by email straight away, plus a reminder the day before and an hour before.
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