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Business Roundtable: Overcoming the Barriers to Profitable Growth

AUG28
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  • This workshop helps business owners generating seven-figure revenue identify where profit is leaking and how to overcome barriers to profitable growth.
  • Owners and founders facing growth plateaus or seeking sustainable scaling will gain financial and commercial insights.
  • Participants leave with actionable strategies and a diagnostic to improve profit within 90 days.

About this event

What's stopping your business from making more profit?

This is a focused, interactive roundtable bringing together a small group of business owners to work through one of the most common frustrations in growing a business: revenue is increasing, but it doesn't feel like you're getting ahead.
Facilitated by a Fractional Chief Financial Officer and Fractional Chief Revenue Officer, the discussion combines financial and commercial expertise to help you identify where profit is being created, where it's being lost, and what to do about it. This is a working session with business owners who are facing similar challenges, designed to surface real answers specific to your business.
Who should attend
This roundtable is designed for owners and founders who:
Generate seven-figures in annual revenue
Feel busy, but not as profitable as they should be
Have hit a growth plateau
Are growing quickly and want to scale sustainably
Want more confidence in the commercial and financial decisions shaping their business
What you'll walk away with
A clearer picture of where profit is leaking in your business
The commercial and financial reasons behind those leaks
A practical framework for evaluating future business decisions
Three actions you can implement in the next 90 days
Your own Profitable Growth Opportunity, a diagnostic to take away and act on
How it works
Welcome — Why businesses grow without growing profit and real examples
The Revenue Perspective — where profitable revenue is being left on the table, facilitated by Phil Purcell (Fractional CRO)
The Financial Perspective — what your numbers are really telling you, facilitated by Sarah Petty (Fractional CFO)
Bringing It Together — connecting revenue, profit and cash flow
Working Session — identifying your next profit opportunity

Your facilitators
Sarah Petty — Founder, Olive Business Partners. A Fractional CFO with two decades of senior finance experience across major FMCG companies, helping business owners cut through the numbe

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