Working ON Your Business: The Key to Systematic Growth
Discover how to turn your strategy, people, systems and resources into a more productive, high-performing business that makes consistent progress towards your ambitions.
A free 90-minute live workshop for established small business owners who are serious about growing and improving their businesses.
Stay to the end and receive your complimentary Systematic Growth Action Pack to help you put the learning into action.
You’re putting a lot into your business. But are you getting enough out of it?
You’ve worked hard to build your business. You’ve developed your expertise, won customers, built relationships, made investments, taken risks and perhaps grown a team.
You’ve achieved a lot. And you know there’s more potential.
But what if one of the biggest things holding back your next stage of business growth is the way you’re currently working on it?
As your business grows, so does the complexity. More people, more moving parts, more decisions, more opportunities and more demands on your time.
Perhaps you’re constantly pulled back into the day-to-day. Important projects get started but don’t always get finished. Too many decisions still depend on you. Time and resources get wasted, and the bigger strategic priorities struggle to get the attention they deserve.
Or perhaps things are going well, but you know that achieving your next level of growth will require a different approach.
You want to improve performance, increase profitability, build a stronger team, take advantage of new opportunities or create a business that can achieve more without continually demanding more of you.
Either way, the question is the same:
Is the way you’re leading and working on your business actually capable of delivering the results you want next?
Because working harder, hiring more people, introducing more technology or coming up with another great idea isn’t necessarily the answer.
Sometimes the biggest opportunity for growth lies in changing the way you lead, develop and work on the business itself.
That’s what this workshop is about.
In 90 minutes, you’ll discover:
Why growing a business can become harder as it becomes more successful, and how your leadership and ways of working need to evolve as the business grows.
The five connected disciplines of systematic growth, and why strengthening them can create a more focused, joined-up and high-performing business.
Why having a strategy isn’t enough, and what it takes to turn plans and ambitions into consistent action and measurable progress.
What it takes to build a well-oiled business, where people, processes, systems and resources work together to deliver better results.
How you can become a more focused, effective and productive founder, developing the strategic leadership, discipline and habits needed for your next stage of growth.
Why investing time in working ON your business can give you more time in the future, by reducing wasted effort and improving capacity and productivity.
How deliberate, consistent improvements compound, strengthening business performance, team capability and your own effectiveness as a founder.
A great strategy is important. But it’s what you do with it that changes your business.
Most business owners don’t lack ideas, ambition or determination. And with technology and AI, access to knowledge, advice and potential solutions has never been greater.
But how much of that knowledge actually gets implemented? How many great ideas never quite become reality? How many plans lose momentum once the day-to-day takes over?
The gap between knowing what needs to happen and consistently making it happen can cost you time, money, productivity and growth.
Working ON Your Business explores a different approach: one where you don’t simply create a strategy and hope it happens. You develop a dynamic, systematic way of leading and growing your business, with clear direction, joined-up priorities, meaningful action, ownership, review and continuous improvement.
And crucially, you develop your own ability to lead and work more systematically. Because building a stronger business is also about becoming the founder capable of achieving the ambitions you’ve set for it.
This workshop is for you if…
You’ve built an established business and know that more of the same won’t necessarily deliver your next level of growth.
You and your team are putting in significant effort, but progress isn’t always as fast or consistent as it could be.
You’re still too involved in decisions, problems or keeping everything moving and want greater team ownership.
You have ambitious plans and want a stronger foundation for growth, not just more activity.
You can see opportunities to improve productivity, performance, efficiency or profitability, but struggle to follow through consistently.
You want to become more strategic, focused, disciplined and effective in how you lead your business.
Stop relying on more effort. Start building a business capable of achieving more.
Imagine having greater clarity about where your business is going and what really deserves your attention. A team that understands the direction, takes ownership and follows through on shared priorities. Less wasted time and effort. Better decisions. More effective use of your people, resources and technology.
Imagine regularly stepping back, reviewing what’s working, resetting priorities and moving forward with renewed clarity and momentum.
And imagine becoming more focused, confident, disciplined and effective in how you lead it all.
A more capable founder. A more capable business. Greater potential for growth.
Leave with a practical starting point, not just inspiration.
You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of where changing the way you work could make the biggest difference, and what you need to focus on next.
Stay until the end and receive the Systematic Growth Action Pack, a practical take-home workbook that helps you connect your ambitions to one meaningful business improvement, one change in how you operate as a founder and a concrete action to take over the next 30 days.
It’s designed to help you take the first step, not to replace the more detailed Systematic Growth Assessment or the process of building your full strategy.
Your workshop host
Beverley Corson
I’ve spent more than 18 years working with small business owners, helping them develop their strategies, improve performance, grow their businesses and, most importantly, turn their plans into results.
And one thing I’ve learned is that having a great business idea, working incredibly hard or even developing a brilliant strategy doesn’t automatically lead to success. It’s what happens afterwards that makes the difference.
I’m also a founder myself. As someone who’s naturally more creative and ideas-driven than organised and systematic, I’ve had to learn firsthand the importance of developing the discipline, habits and ways of working that turn ambition into achievement.
That experience, combined with years of working with other founders, led me to develop the RISE methodology and create Founderise, a strategic operating system designed to help established business owners grow more systematically.
I’m now using Founderise to develop and grow Founderise itself, and seeing firsthand the difference it makes when strategy, teamwork, accountability and consistent execution become part of the way you work.
I’m passionate about helping founders not only build stronger, more successful businesses, but also become more capable of achieving their own ambitions. And that’s what I’d love to share with you in this workshop.
Ready to make your business work better, grow stronger and achieve more?
Give yourself 90 minutes to discover how to work ON your business more systematically, and identify where to begin.
- Thursday, 19 November 2026
- 11:00am to 12:30pm (UK time)
- Live online
- Free