Scaling Up: What Changes When You Grow

This 1.5-hour session helps social entrepreneurs understand the key shifts, challenges, and decisions that emerge when moving from early traction to sustainable scale. It’s a reflective and practical session — focused on surfacing potential pitfalls, highlighting mindset shifts, and introducing simple tools that help leaders stay focused and resilient during growth.

We’ll explore five critical themes:

1. Focus & Clarity – What must stay the same, and what needs to evolve?

2. People & Structure – Do we have the right people and roles to grow?

3. Processes & Systems – What got us here won’t get us there.

4. Cash & Capacity – Scaling = burning more cash and energy.

5. Founder Shift – How does your role change as your venture grows?

Each section includes reflection questions, common ‘growing pains’, and practical ideas to pre-empt problems.

Participants will: -

Recognise the typical challenges and tensions that come with growth. – Reflect on their own readiness to scale — as individuals and as organisations. –

Identify practical steps to strengthen team, systems, and strategy. - Leave feeling more confident, focused, and realistic about the scale-up journey.