TWIN CITIES BUSINESS GROWTH

Est. 2018

Empowering leaders to cultivate knowledge, accelerate growth, and foster innovation

Twin Cities Business Growth Conference

About Twin Cities Business Growth

For the past five years, Twin Cities Business Growth has provided an avenue for business executives to learn from one another and strategize with industry leaders by hosting an annual conference. Each year, we identify prevalent issues and opportunities companies face, and we use that opportunity to develop a program to address them head-on. We strive to connect innovative thinkers and leaders by bringing them together to share insights, ideas and experiences.

Twin Cities Business Growth Conference

Twin Cities Business
Growth Workshop

Leading Growth in Your Company: What Got You Here Won't Get You There.

Date: November 9, 2023
Location: Midland Hills Country Club, Roseville, MN

Twin Cities Business Growth Conference

Why Twin Cities Business Growth?

Join our community of local business owners and executives, and learn how to ignite growth in your business through:

  • Interactions with local experts and successful business owners
  • Networking opportunities with peers
  • Conversations with a cohort of leaders who understand your challenges
Our areas of expertise:

Talent and People Strategy

Discover how to recruit and retain talent.

Sales Development

Learn how to foster sales growth more effectively.

Leveraging Technology

Make technology work to your advantage.

Business Leadership

Identify new ways to improve leadership techniques.

Twin Cities Business Growth Conference

This Year's Event: Playing Offense in Uncertain Times

Executive-only event

Empowering Professionals

Save the date for Twin Cities Business Growth Conference 2022!

Location: Golden Valley Country Club 7001 Golden Valley Rd Golden Valley, MN 55427

Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022

Time: 12:30PM - 6PM

Twin Cities Business Growth Conference Keynote Speaker
John Warrillow
2022

John Warrillow

John Warrillow is the founder of The Value Builder System™, sales and marketing software for the exit industry. His best-selling book Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You was recognized by both Fortune and Inc. as one of the best business books of 2011 and has been translated into 12 languages.

John is the host of Built to Sell Radio, ranked by Forbes as one of the world’s 10 best podcasts for business owners. In 2015, John wrote another best-selling book, The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry. John completes the trilogy with his latest book, The Art of Selling Your Business: Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top. Prior to founding The Value Builder System™, he started and exited four companies, including one acquired by a public company.

He lives with his family in Toronto. You can follow John’s work by signing up at BuiltToSell.com.

Twin Cities Business Growth Conference

Agenda

12:30PM - 1:00PM

Check-in | Networking

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Keynote: John Warrillow, Award-Winning Entrepreneur, Advisor & Author

2:00PM - 4:30PM

Breakout Sessions

4:30PM - 6:00PM

Happy Hour | Networking

Twin Cities Business Growth Conference

Our 2022 Speakers

Bruce Lach

Bruce Lach

President of
SUCCESS Computer Consulting

Chad Haldeman

Chad Haldeman

Senior Business Advisor of The Resultants

Gary Braun

Gary Braun

Partner & Co-founder of
Pivotal Advisors

Rick Rittmaster

Rick Rittmaster

VP of Consulting of
CorTalent

Andrew Kuderer

Andrew Kuderer

Senior Client Success Manager of CorTalent

Followed by John’s presentation, TCBG partners laced up their shoes and running feet into how businesses can lean into and/or shift their focus towards playing offense in these uncertain times.

During the afternoon session, speakers covered the importance of hiring for your future workforce, flipping the sales field to attract new opportunities, evolving your tech strategy to support constant changes and updates and exploring secondary growth engines to ensure the success of your long-term goals.

Attendees also got the opportunity to collaborate and network with other business owners and leaders throughout the day and into happy hour.

Bruce Lach

Bruce Lach

President

Bruce Lach has 40+ years of IT and General Management experience. During his first 20 years, he spent time in “corporate America” with IT stints at Twin City Federal, General Mills and Land O’Lakes. In the mid-90’s, Bruce began leading start-up and small businesses providing IT services to large enterprises in the Twin Cities area.  Many of these services were focused on building data warehouses for familiar companies including Wells Fargo, Toro, Valspar, Harvest States, and more. In the decade prior to joining SUCCESS, Bruce was a “turnaround guy” consulting with distressed and mildly profitable businesses to improve business operations and profitability leveraging Theory of Constraints.

Chad Haldeman

Chad Haldeman

Senior Business Advisor

Chad Haldeman is a 25+ year sales and management professional with expertise in revenue development, strategic planning and execution, organizational leadership, structural innovation and the creation of high performing teams. In 2013, Chad partnered with The Resultants, a leading Twin Cities business advisory firm. As a Business Advisor, Chad advocates for the best interest of your business, using a process that has proven time and time again to help companies build value and achieve personal and professional success.

Gary Braun

Gary Braun

Partner & Co-founder

Gary Braun, Partner and, Co-founder of Pivotal Advisors. Gary has been a successful salesperson and sales leader since the late 1980s. He has worked in multiple companies with different sales channels (direct, through resellers and distributors). Prior to co-founding Pivotal Advisors, he was the VP of Sales and helped his company grow from 23 employees to 1,400 employees. He also helped grow the revenue from $1M to $400M in just over a decade. To scale the company Gary had to learn on the fly how to create systems, repeatable processes, hiring/onboarding systems, compensation plans, and more.

Rick Rittmaster

Rick Rittmaster

VP of Consulting

Rick is an expert at creating people strategies that connect to and advance business strategies. He has partnered with leaders in large, mid, and small organizations with the goal of building talent that takes companies to the next level.  Rick has consulted on leadership, organizational effectiveness, innovation strategy, change management, and employee engagement.

Andrew Kuderer

Andrew Kuderer

Senior Client Success Manager

Andrew’s passions extend to creating long standing and meaningful relationships, driving to achieve goals both individually and within an organization, as well as striving towards continuous improvement. He also manages projects that include high-level retained search, consulting around working relationships and communication with teams, hiring assessments, and Applicant Tracking Systems. He also manages sponsored events and builds on-going relationships with our strategic partners.

Twin Cities Business Growth Conference

Meet the Hosts

CorTalent helps businesses grow through the optimization of their most valuable asset – their people. We leverage our experience, business knowledge, and results-driven philosophy to help you find, select, and retain the best talent. Our mission is to help changing, evolving, and growing companies rise to the top, through their people.

SUCCESS Computer Consulting empowers your business to grow and innovate with technology, while mitigating cybersecurity risks. Our expert team provides technology support, strategic planning, and thoughtful guidance to ensure your technology is not only optimized for success, but growth. We give our clients a seamless experience as we develop, grow, and protect their technology.

Pivotal Advisors helps small to mid-sized companies reach their next level of growth. By using measurable tactics that are both scalable and repeatable, we can get your company on a healthy, profitable track once more.

The Resultants® is a leading business advisory firm based in the Twin Cities. We work with CEOs/owners and their Leadership Teams to implement a proven Business Operating System, aligning teams around a shared vision, driving discipline and accountability deep into the organization and helping businesses go further, faster.