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PodcastCindy-Lynn SteeleMark Johnson

CanadianSME Small Business Podcast

July 2026

The Expansion Premium:
Why Unstructured Growth Plans Fail to Scale Canadian SMEs

Cindy-Lynn Steele and Mark Johnson, Executive Partners, with host Maheen Bari.

Growth stalls when strategy, systems and leadership stop moving together. Where that breaks and what a business should fix first.

  • Adding new revenue without putting core operations at risk
  • Turning customer insight into a growth plan that holds
  • Fixing the operating model before execution can improve