Build the Business Without Becoming the Bottleneck

Growth Exchange Signature Workshop | Facilitated by Jeff Frey, PhD

Are you spending too much time working in your business and not enough time working on it?

As a business owner or organizational leader, it's easy to become the person everyone depends on. Decisions wait for you. Tasks pile up. And responsibilities stay on your plate because you've always handled them, or because it's simply faster to do them yourself.

But what if some of that work no longer needs you?

In this interactive Growth Exchange Signature Workshop, Jeff Frey, PhD, will help you take a closer look at where you create the most value, what's consuming your time, and what could be handled differently.

This isn't a traditional seminar. You'll work on your own business or organization throughout the session, using practical exercises, guided discussions, and Jeff's expertise to turn insights into action.

What You'll Walk Away With

• Clarity: Identify the responsibilities where your time and leadership make the greatest difference.

• Opportunities: Discover tasks you could delegate, streamline, automate with technology or AI, or eliminate altogether.

• A Practical Plan: Choose one responsibility to move off your plate and develop a specific plan to make it happen.

Whether you lead a team, manage a small business, or operate independently, you'll have an opportunity to rethink how you spend your time and where your efforts matter most.

Come ready to work on your business, not just learn about it.


Jeff Frey, PhD, is an entrepreneur, researcher, author, and business professor who studies what happens when founders and leaders become too central to the organizations they build. He teaches entrepreneurship and small business management at Rice University, the University of Houston, and The Citadel, and his research with more than 100 founders examines the pressures, habits, and decisions that affect sustainable growth. As founder and CEO of FurtherFaster, Jeff works with business owners and leaders to build stronger organizations without becoming the bottleneck themselves.

More About 'Growth Exchange: Business Building Workshops'


 

Growth Exchange: Business Building Workshops is the Greater EMC Chamber's quarterly professional development series designed to help leaders to strengthen their organizations through practical learning, collaboration and action.

• Entrepreneurs
• Business Owners
• Nonprofit Leaders
• Managers
• Emerging Leaders

Unlike traditional presentations, Growth Exchange workshops are interactive experiences where participants actively work on their businesses while they are in the room.

Our Promise
Every participant should leave with:

• Practical ideas they can implement immediately
• Meaningful business relationships
• A written action plan
• Greater confidence in their next steps

We help participants work on their business or organization, not just learn about it.

The Experience
Every Growth Exchange workshop is designed to be:

• Interactive
• Practical
• Collaborative
• Action-Oriented

Participants should spend more time doing than listening.

Workshop Formats

Business Solutions Lab
A structured business-building experience where participants put their collective experience to work on real challenges, then turn the ideas they uncover into decisions, action, and accountability.

Signature Workshops
Expert-led workshops featuring recognized business leaders who provide proven frameworks and practical strategies around a specific business topic.

Invest in your growth. Prioritize your development. Be part of the Exchange.