Workshop

Grow Smart: The Operator-to-Owner Workshop

How to make your business less dependent on you — without working more hours or losing control.

A hands-on workshop for small-business owners who are tired of being the answer to every question.

What it is

One focused afternoon to work on the thing that keeps pulling you back into your business. You’ll identify where your company still depends on you, choose one recurring responsibility to hand off, and begin building the process, decision-making authority, and accountability someone else needs to own it. This is not six hours of note-taking. You’re bringing a real business problem and working on it.

What you’ll leave with

  • A 120-Day Operator-to-Owner Flight Plan with clear priorities for the next four months.
  • Clarity on what still depends too heavily on you — and what needs to change first.
  • A framework for building stronger systems, leaders, authority, and accountability.
  • The first moves already underway so your transformation doesn’t start “someday.”

How it works

  1. 1

    See it

    Identify the recurring work and decisions that keep your business dependent on you.

  2. 2

    Build it

    Use guided exercises, practical tools, and an AI demonstration to draft a process someone else can follow.

  3. 3

    Plan the handoff

    Define who should own it, what they can decide, and how you’ll measure progress — then schedule your first implementation steps.

Schedule

  • Hands-on workshopNoon–6 PM
  • Dinner6 PM
  • Networking with local ownersUntil 8 PM

Guest perspective

Alan Fischer — Guest speaker — exit readiness, succession, and long-term optionality

Included

Workshop, workbook and planning tools, dinner, a follow-up implementation clinic, and Grow Smart Owner Circle access through December 31, 2026.

Come. Work. Decide for yourself.

Attend and decide for yourself. If you don’t feel you’ve received worthwhile value, notify the event team privately by 4:00 PM Central on October 19 and your workshop admission is refunded in full.

Your seat, October 19.

Cornerstone Pub · Oconomowoc, WI · Noon–8 PM Central

Reserve My Seat — $99 (opens registration in a new tab)

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