Live Webinar - GrowSmart™ Senior | Scale Leadership, Financial Performance & Operations

GrowSmart™ Senior is an advanced cohort designed for established businesses that are preparing to scale. This track helps owners strengthen leadership capacity, improve financial performance and KPI discipline, and build operational systems that reduce dependency on the founder. Participants learn how effective leaders build teams, manage performance, track financial drivers of growth, and design workflows that support sustainable scaling.

This series will be held on Thursday, April 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2026.

Please be prepared to have your camera on and audio working.

Highlights:

• Strengthen scale-up leadership skills, decision-making, and management approach
• Build people and performance systems using tools like leadership styles, personnel evaluation frameworks, and team development practices
• Improve financial clarity with core statements, ratios, and cash flow analysis
• Establish KPIs, budgeting systems, and growth-financing strategy to support scale
• Design operational systems, workflows, and procedures that create consistency and efficiency

This cohort is geared toward established business owners and leadership teams who are ready to scale revenue and complexity—and need stronger leadership habits, financial performance discipline, and operational systems to sustain growth.

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Our presentation team:

Robert Johnson, Director, Vision2Venture

Robert Johnson is the Director of the Vision2Venture (V2V) Program at the University of Houston Texas Gulf Coast SBDC Network, where he specializes in SBIR/STTR grant commercialization and supports early-stage entrepreneurs across the Texas Gulf Coast region. In 2023, he co-founded the Innov8 Hub program at the University of Houston Technology Bridge, which to date has helped over 50 startups advance deep technology commercialization. Beyond the University of Houston, during 2024-2025, Robert coached startup teams in the region that together secured over $5 million in SBIR/STTR funding.

An entrepreneur since 2006, Robert has successfully launched and managed multiple businesses, including two that have thrived for more than a decade. As the founding director of Vision2Venture, he is developing a cohort-based program that provides tailored education to address entrepreneurs' unique challenges. A certified Wendy Kennedy Inc. coach, Robert draws on over 20 years of experience in education to deliver practical, student-centered entrepreneurship programs that drive real-world results.

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It is imperative to add centeric@ic.sbdc.uhbauer.org and no-reply@zoom.us to your approved senders' list to be able to receive event confirmations and links.

Your registration confirmation email will contain a link to join the webinar via Zoom. You must join the webinar series in Zoom using the same email address you used to register for this webinar series. If you experience any issues, please contact v2vsbdc@central.uh.edu for troubleshooting support.

Registration will close two business days prior to the start of the cohort.