Build a Business Worth Owning
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, 25th November 2025
- 11:00 - 11:45 The Business Architecture Framework
- 12:00 - 12:45 Valuation Framework & Organisational Design for Scale
- 12:45 - 13:30 Lunch
- 13:30 - 14:15 Financial Strategy for Growth
- 14:30 - 15:15 The Four Archetypes
- 15:30 - 16:30 Business Health Check LIVE
Thursday, 26th November 2025
- 11:00 - 11:45 The Business Architecture Framework
- 12:00 - 12:45 Valuation Framework & Organisational Design for Scale
- 12:45 - 13:30 Lunch
- 13:45 - 14:30 Getting Sale-Ready (Christina) / Funding Your Next Move (AJ)
- 14:45 - 15:30 Ask the Experts
AT A GLANCE
- Discover what your business is really worth - and what's quietly capping its value.
- Learn the six foundations every genuinely valuable business is built on.
- Find out how to design your future organisation and the team to run it.
- Understand how buyers value businesses - and what makes them pay more.
- Get practical ways to fund your growth without overextending.
- See where your business stands today and the first things to fix.
ABOUT THE SPONSOR
Blue Gum Equity helps Australian business owners build businesses that are growable, scalable and exitable. We look at every business the way a buyer does - because knowing what makes a business worth buying is exactly what tells you how to build one worth owning. It's architecture, not just advice.
MEET THE TEAM
Kevin Sanders
Director & Business Architect
Kevin is a business strategist and Head Judge of Business Excellence Awards, who has spent over 6,000 hours with, in and around more than 2,000 businesses - learning the distinct patterns of how successful businesses work. He looks at businesses the way a buyer does: he knows what makes one worth a premium and what makes one impossible to sell.
Tyson McGeoch
Director & Commercial Strategist
Tyson is a Chartered Accountant and Director of Blue Gum Equity. He brings deep experience in corporate finance, commercial real estate and governance to every partnership - making sure the numbers, the structure and the strategy line up behind a business built to grow, scale and sell. Where Kevin architects, Tyson makes it stack up.
AJ Kirkcaldie
Head of Funding
AJ leads funding at Blue Gum Equity, drawing on more than a decade in financial advice and commercial finance. He looks past the loan to the whole picture - cashflow, structure and whether borrowing even makes sense - making sure capital is never what stalls a business built to grow, scale and sell.
