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Your place at Why Growth Makes Your Business Harder to Run is reserved.

Friday 11 September, 12:30–1:30pm BST (UK time)

A free, live 60-minute online session for owners, including a private Q&A.

Put it in your diary now, while you’re here

It takes about ten seconds, and then the time is blocked out.

Here’s what happens now

We'll send you a confirmation email from richard@valuegrowthcatalyst.com. If it hasn’t arrived in a few minutes, please check your junk or spam folder.

Between now and the event, I’ll send you a few short emails to help you get more from the session, followed by the joining link the day before and again an hour before we start.

You'll receive the event recording afterwards, whether or not you are there on the day. But the private Q&A won’t be included in the recording. That allows attendees to ask candid questions about what’s happening in their own businesses without those conversations being published. If you want to ask about yours — or hear the questions other owners ask — you’ll need to be there live.

One small thing worth doing now

Add Richard McMullan (richard@valuegrowthcatalyst.com) to your contacts. That’s where the joining link will come from, and it’s the one email you don’t want disappearing into a junk folder.

A reminder of what you’ll come away with

By the end of the session, you’ll be able to:

  • Recognise where the nine value-destroying conditions are making your business harder to run
  • Distinguish the underlying design problems from the day-to-day symptoms they keep creating
  • Understand why another hire, a new system or better delegation may provide temporary relief without fixing what’s wrong
  • Understand what changes when you move from owner-operator to Value Architect

I’ve delivered this session to around 120 owners over the last two years, with an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 for its content, usefulness and relevance.

Know another owner in the same position?

If you know someone whose business has grown but hasn’t become any easier to run, send them the event page.

It’s free, and they’ll receive the recording even if they can’t make the live session.

If it helps, send them this:

“Richard McMullan is running a free 60-minute session on why growth makes your business harder to run — and what needs to be re-engineered so that changes. Friday 11 September at 12:30pm UK time. Thought of you. Here's the link: Click to open the event page ”

The track record behind it
Richard McMullan

Founder, Value Growth Catalyst
Author, The Business Exit Blueprint
Creator, CatalystOS™
Chair & Co-Owner, two manufacturing businesses


35+ years leading and advising complex businesses

 A decade in strategy consulting, including FTSE 100 clients

 Board-level operation in a £370m+ revenue business

Scaled a UK & Ireland retail business from £1.5m to £20m

135+ owners advised across 30 sectors

Outcomes from the work

CatalystOS™ is the system distilled from doing this work, in different forms, for more than three decades.

One client grew their valuation from £5m to £44m in three years and is now approaching £100m in revenue. Another exited for £11m on completion with no earn-out.

The work isn’t about chasing those numbers. It’s about building businesses that can produce them – or that can be happily owned forever or easily sold tomorrow.