The Business Growth Forum

If you’ve built a successful business but feel stuck at your current level of growth, this one-day summit is designed for you.

Many entrepreneurs plateau at key revenue milestones — be it $2M, $5M, $10M, or even $20M — not because of lack of effort, but because the strategies that got them to this point won’t necessarily get them to the next level.

This practical, peer-informed conference brings together growth experts and real-world approaches to help you break through that ceiling.
You’ll leave with actionable ideas, new perspectives, and tools you can apply immediately to scale and grow more confidently, sustainably, and strategically.

Info: Build valuable relationships that extend beyond the event, fostering opportunities for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and business growth.

Info: Join Scott Syrja as he opens the day by outlining the key foundations required to build and sustain a high-growth organization. He will explore the strategic mindset, leadership orientation, and structural considerations that differentiate companies positioned for scale from those that remain constrained by growth ceilings. These remarks will establish the context for the day, encouraging participants to reflect on their current business model, growth trajectory, and readiness for expansion.

Info: Growth isn’t just strategic; it’s psychological. Growing a business means growing your own capacity—to handle uncertainty, regulate emotion, make hard decisions, and sustain energy. Entrepreneurial fatigue is real. Decision overload, ambiguity, and emotional volatility drain cognitive bandwidth—ultimately reducing clarity and creativity. Performance psychology reframes growth as a mental conditioning challenge, not just a market or operational one. Just as elite athletes train recovery as seriously as effort, high-performing leaders train mental recovery—the ability to reset attention, perspective, and emotion mid-stress.
Practical takeaways for attendees will include:
How to model composure and curiosity
How to build mental recovery into daily rhythm
How to train attention like a scarce resource
How to shift from control to adaptability
How to treat growth mindset as a competitive advantage

Info: Enjoy light refreshments and an opportunity to connect with fellow business owners and advisors. Build valuable relationships that extend beyond the event, fostering opportunities for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and business growth.

Info: Explore how strategic M&A can unlock growth for your business.

Many SMEs hit a ceiling in terms of organic growth making it difficult to scale. Most PE firms or strategic buyers have minimum size criteria to acquire a business so ultimately SCALE IS EVERYTHING when it comes to optimizing your business value. Founders often want to grow but don't consider acquiring another business of strategic value assuming they can't finance it or they don't have the skills to buy a business.

This session will show how M & A can be used effectively as a low-risk growth strategy even for SMEs and will include topics such as:

Pros and Cons of Buy vs. Build
How To Mitigate Risk in Acquiring a Business
Common Ways to Buy a Business
Proper Deal Structuring
Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how to approach acquisitions confidently, mitigate risk, structure deals properly, and use M&A as a powerful lever to grow their business.

Info: Scale with clarity and control. Build the systems and accountability your next stage of growth requires.

At a certain stage of growth, what once worked stops working. Complexity increases. Decisions slow down. Accountability blurs. Growth feels harder than it should.

In this practical, high-energy session, Jen Couldrey introduces the Six Key Components™ of EOS®, a simple, proven framework that helps leadership teams gain clarity, alignment, and traction.

You will learn how to:

Clarify priorities and align around what matters most
Create accountability that drives execution
Build simple, scalable processes
Solve issues before they stall growth
If you’re ready to move from reactive to intentional- and create the structure that supports your next stage of growth- this session will give you practical insights you can apply immediately.

Info: Connect with peers, speakers, and sponsors while enjoying lunch.

Info: Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how customers discover businesses. Buyers are no longer just searching on Google. They are asking ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI systems for answers. In this new environment, visibility is shifting from ranking on page one to becoming the trusted source that AI platforms cite.

In this session, Riaz Sidi, Founder & CEO of Sidi.io, explains how organizations can stay strategy-focused and build predictable demand in uncertain times. Attendees will learn how modern demand generation combines timeless marketing fundamentals with emerging technologies, including first-party data strategies, retargeting and lookalike audiences, data-driven creative testing, and multi-platform funnel marketing.

This session provides a practical framework for turning marketing strategy into execution so organizations can generate qualified demand, build authority, and grow in the AI era.

Info: With AI creeping into every aspect of business, it is critical to establish the right foundations for growth before deploying any type of force multiplier. Scaling companies align three critical frameworks—North Star Metric, Jobs to Be Done, and Ideal Customer Profiles—to create a cohesive growth engine. When these three elements work together, companies achieve faster growth, better retention, and more efficient capital deployment.
By the time organizations reach $5M-$25M in revenue, they've proven something works. But this is also the danger zone where companies plateau. They have enough customers that patterns blur. Enough team members that alignment fractures. Enough complexity that intuition fails.
Drawing on three established frameworks, you’ll uncover the connections between HOW you measure success, based on WHAT problem you solve, and WHO is most likely to value your solution.

Info: Enjoy light refreshments and an opportunity to connect with fellow business owners and advisors. Build valuable relationships that extend beyond the event, fostering opportunities for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and business growth.

Info: Most businesses don’t struggle to grow because of a lack of effort. They struggle because growth creates complexity faster than capacity.
Many companies hit a ceiling at $5M, $10M, or $20M in revenue. Sales may be working. Demand may be strong. But delivery strains, leaders become bottlenecks, and profits don’t keep pace. The issue isn’t ambition—it’s that the business wasn’t designed to handle the next stage of scale.
Discover how businesses can grow without burning out founders, over-hiring, or eroding margins. You’ll learn the four growth traps that quietly cap performance, how to reduce key-person dependence, and why expanding existing accounts is often easier than chasing new ones. The session will also explore how today’s AI tools can increase operating leverage across prospecting, sales follow-up, and client management—when applied strategically.
Whether you’re preparing for an exit or pushing for aggressive growth, this talk will give you a practical framework to double revenue

Info: Every entrepreneur, every owner, every sales leader knows the frustration: you have a great product or service, you’ve done your research, and you know exactly who you want to reach - but you can’t seem to break through. Often they approach the sales process backwards. They focus on getting in the door when they should be focused on building trust long before they ever knock.

Understand the strategies that have driven consistent growth at one of Canada’s most recognized enterprise technology companies - practical approaches to social selling, building authentic relationships, and identifying and nurturing champions inside the organizations you want to work with.
The buying journey for organizations has changed dramatically over the last few years. The use of AI, designated social selling tools, building community to create momentum and supporting your internal champions as they become your strongest advocates are now more important than ever.

Info: Enjoy light refreshments and an opportunity to connect with fellow business owners and advisors. Build valuable relationships that extend beyond the event, fostering opportunities for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and business growth.

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