Podcast

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