CEO Today Management Consulting Awards 2021

SOUTH AFRICA

CEO TODAY MANAGEMENT CONSULTING AWARDS 2021

Andrew Aitken CEO of GROW

www.grow.za.com

ABOUT ANDREWAITKEN Andrew has witnessed first-hand the power of entrepreneurship through his own businesses. He has successfully built and sold two businesses and is now going for the third. As a business owner who has successfully navigated the ever-changing tech industry landscape, Andrew is no stranger to managing change and growth. In his role as CEO of GROW, Andrew puts energy behind ensuring that GROW lives out its purpose of unlocking potential in the business, teams, and people we coach. Andrew strongly subscribes to GROWʼs core values, including that “we practice what we coach”, which means that he ensures GROWcontinues to scale as a business while helping founders and entrepreneurs to do the same with their businesses. Andrew is passionate about GROWʼs value of “empowering each other to do what it takes”. He loves seeing GROWʼs coaches successfully building their coaching practices within the GROW environment while consistently delivering exceptional results to clients. In addition to the hats Andrew wears, he is also a proud mentor to Endeavor entrepreneurs – a leading supporter of high-impact entrepreneurs around the world. Andrew stays directly in touch with the intricacies and nuances of coaching growth businesses. He actively coaches the CEOʼs and leadership teams of some of SAʼs exciting fast-growth businesses including Skynamo (US$30M VC funding to expand into the US and UK), Cardinal (SAʼs largest Insurance Platform provider) and StructureIt (operations in Jhb, CT, Mauritius, New Zealand, UK and US, looking to expand into the US), to name just a few. Before joining GROW, Andrew held the position of Executive Head of the Cloud Division at Internet Solutions (nowDimension Data) where he was instrumental in leading the division to achieve its profit targets. Prior to this, Andrew spent 10 years building, merging, and selling his own successful company, Antfarm, a leading mediatech company before selling the business to Dimension Data.

FIRMPROFILE The GROW coaches use their expertise to guide and support business leaders in scaling and growing effectively while ensuring that the core purpose, values and vision remains intact while build a winning team. We are a group of passionate, growth hungry and results driven coaches who help hundreds of business leaders and their teams leverage their strengths and tap into their potential for further success. Our focus is to grow businesses, people and profits. Our own winning formula for building successful businesses is based on deep research, practical application and validated coaching and business growth methodologies. Our team of expert coaches have on-the-ground experience working with business leaders and management teams. We use our experience running and managing businesses, industry knowledge, and relationship skills to guide and support business leaders in the face of political, economical, sociological, technological, legal and environmental changes. We have the capability and know-how to help entrepreneurs and their teams set direction in their business by clearly defining and encouraging them to live their purpose and values that, in turn, provides the foundation for creating a business strategy that works. We then build a winning team that can deliver on operational excellence to achieve the key objectives of the strategy with the key focus being on bettering peopleʼs way of work and consequently their livelihoods. And for us, this means helping business leaders and their teams discover their own path to achieve personal and business ambitions, while finding ways of enjoying life more.

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