Scale with Strength

Scale fast—without losing your culture, your best people or your momentum.

Scaling from 1 → 10 → 50 → 500 changes everything. The things that got your company here won’t necessarily get you to the next stage. Suddenly:

• Roles feel less clear
• Decisions take longer
• Communication gets messier
• Alignment takes more effort than execution
• Culture starts to shift
• Your best people feel stretched
• And the wrong early hires can create drag that lasts for years

Who you hire early can make or break your scaleup dream. Do you have the right people, in the right roles, for the next stage of growth?

If you’re building fast and feeling the tension between growth, culture, and execution—you’re not alone.

About the session

Join Vidya Murali and Liz Hosmer for ScalewithStrength– a practical, highly interactive workshop for founders navigating the people side of scaling. This session is a taster of their flagship two-day Scale with Strength workshop, designed to help leadership teams move faster, align better and scale without burnout. Through real scaleup case studies, facilitated founder discussion and live coaching, we’ll explore the patterns that commonly slow growing businesses down: misalignment, decision bottlenecks, unclear ownership, cultural drift and leadership growing pains– and practical ways to navigate them. This is not theory. Not generic leadership advice. And definitely no corporate jargon. It’s practical, honest, experience-led learning from leaders who have scaled teams inside fast-growing businesses themselves.

What we’ll cover:

1. When Your Strengths Become Your Shadows.
   The behaviours that help founders build a company can become the very things that hold it back. We’ll explore how to recognise and adapt your leadership style as your business grows.
2. Who to Hire — and Who Not To.
   Your early hires can make or break your scale-up dream. We’ll discuss the types of people that help companies scale, common hiring mistakes and how to hire for the next stage of growth rather than today’s problems.
3. When Loyalty and Performance Collide.
   What happens when an early employee who helped build the company is no longer the right fit? We’ll explore practical approaches to managing loyalty, performance and difficult conversations while protecting culture and momentum.

What you’ll take away:

✔ A framework to identify your leadership strengths and potential blind spots as a founder

✔ Practical guidance on hiring and retaining the right people for your next stage of growth

✔ Tools to navigate difficult people decisions while preserving culture, trust and performance

Founders will leave with practical insights to help their company scale with strength—without losing culture, key people or momentum.

Format:

🕒 60-minute interactive workshop
🤝 30-minute networking with trainers and fellow founders

Designed for founders and leadership teams building ambitious companies and scaling through growth.