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High-Impact Growth Workshops for Business and Marketing Leaders

Sustainable, profitable growth is the ultimate business goal—and one of the hardest to achieve.

Many organizations don’t struggle because of a lack of ideas—but because they lack the mechanisms to turn ideas into action. Innovation stalls. Execution slows. Growth loses momentum.

The Edge Workshop Series, led by global growth leadership expert Thomas Barta, is designed to close that gap. What sets these workshops apart? First, a proven three-part growth model—linking customer strategy, organizational capability, and executive commitment to deliver results. Second, a truly global perspective—shaped by Thomas’s work with leadership teams across Asia, the Americas, and Europe.

The result: high-impact, practical growth workshops that inspire action and drive real-world business performance.

Recent business challenges addressed include: slow growth, organizational inertia, business model disruption, changing customer expectations, and technology shifts.

Edge Workshops have recently helped clients in business services, consumer goods, insurance, hospitality, technology, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.

Thomas Barta leading a global business growth workshop for senior leaders

Growth Accelerator Workshop: Growth Edge

From Big Ideas to Market Wins—Fast

Growth Accelerator Workshop led by Thomas Barta – business leaders in strategy session
The strongest growth platform? A steady pipeline of high-potential opportunities—and the ability to move fast. In today’s volatile markets, speed separates growth leaders from the rest. Yet most organizations aren’t built for it. Risk aversion creeps in. Ideas get diluted. Momentum stalls. Growth loses its edge.

The Growth Accelerator Workshop—Growth Edge, led by growth leadership expert Thomas Barta, helps teams pinpoint their most promising opportunities and accelerate them into the market—with real results.

Workshop Goals

  • Opportunity focus – Identify bigger, faster growth bets
  • Speed to market – Define the fastest viable launch paths
  • Execution ownership – Secure clear, personal next steps from all team members

Workshop Agenda

  • Playing field – Define the key growth drivers
  • Opportunity map – Plot and prioritize initiatives
  • Growth quantification – Estimate impact (revenue, cost, profit)
  • The resistance – Uncover internal execution barriers
  • Acceleration plan – Design workarounds and fast tracks
  • Speed committee – Assign a team to guard delivery pace
  • Team commitments – Lock in personal action plans

Deliverables

  • Prioritized go-to-market agenda
  • Execution acceleration roadmap
  • Individual action plans

Format

  • In-person
  • Executive teams, business units, project teams
  • Standard: 2.5 days (opportunity, strategy, execution)
  • Optional: 1-day format (opportunity + core principles)

What makes this workshop unique

  • Real business outcomes – Focused on immediate, measurable growth
  • Execution-first – Built by those who’ll deliver the results
  • Growth + psychology – Combines strategic opportunity with organizational behavior science

Growth Innovation Workshop: Future Edge

Shaping the Next Wave of Business Growth—Now

Future Edge Innovation Workshop – global marketing leaders shaping growth strategy
The world’s top growth companies—NVIDIA, Adobe, Amazon, LVMH—do more than defend their core. They build what’s next. They shape the disruption.

Too many firms innovate inside a narrow frame: what’s safe, familiar, or historically successful. They ignore global shifts. Delay bold moves. That’s why over half the Fortune 500 from the year 2000—brands like Alcoa, Avon, Kodak—no longer exist.

Future growth doesn’t reward caution. It rewards those willing to look further—and act faster.

The Growth Innovation Workshop—Future Edge, led by global growth expert Thomas Barta, helps executive teams uncover major new growth opportunities and define what it takes to lead the next wave.

Workshop Goals

  • Next-wave growth bets – Identify bold new opportunities, including fast wins

  • Organizational readiness – Map internal strengths and capability gaps

  • Clear ownership – Draft a focused, realistic growth agenda

Workshop Agenda

  • Growth inspiration – Study fast-growth players in and beyond your field

  • Global trends – Translate megatrends into strategic options

  • Ideation – Combine inside insight with external stimulus

  • Opportunity review – Build business cases for top ideas

  • Organizational shifts – Identify enablers and blockers

  • Prioritization – Select 3–5 opportunities with the most potential

  • Team commitments – Assign leaders for next-stage development

Deliverables

  • Future growth opportunity map (Level 2 and 3 growth bets)

  • Capability heatmap (gaps and strengths)

  • Draft growth strategy with named owners

Format

  • In-person

  • Pre-reading: global trends, top-performing firms

  • For executive teams, project teams, internal experts

  • Standard: 2.5 days (discovery, strategy, alignment)

  • Optional: 1-day format (opportunity focus + principles)

What makes this workshop unique

  • Strategic foresight – Genuine future opportunities, beyond the obvious

  • Execution-ready – Plans built by those who’ll lead implementation

  • Opportunity + capability – Merges market potential with behavioral insight

Customer Experience Workshop: Experience Edge

Designing CX That Drives Growth—Not Just Delight

Customer Experience Edge Workshop – designing CX for business growth with Thomas Barta

The world’s top brands—American Express, Singapore Airlines, Cheval Blanc—don’t just deliver great customer experience. They turn CX into a growth engine. But meaningful experience design is hard. What delights today may be irrelevant tomorrow. Some ideas sound great—but aren’t worth the cost. And even with strong insight, execution stalls without full organizational alignment.

The Experience Edge Workshop, led by global CX and growth expert Thomas Barta, helps teams shape a customer experience strategy that truly delivers—both for customers and the business.


Workshop Goals

  • CX that pays – Define experience priorities that drive business growth

  • Execution path – Map the steps from insight to operational delivery

  • Leadership ownership – Secure personal commitments from each executive

Workshop Agenda

  • Global CX inspiration – Review top customer experience benchmarks

  • Customer insight – Analyze expectations, pain points, unmet needs

  • CX aspiration – Define the future-state vision (12–24 months)

  • Experience generation – Ideate high-impact initiatives

  • Cost vs. impact – Estimate value creation and delivery cost

  • Experience roadmap – Chart the path to implementation

  • Priority setting – Identify quick wins and long-term priorities

  • Execution test – Assess feasibility and internal readiness

  • Team commitments – Assign ownership for rollout

Deliverables

  • Market-leading CX strategy and roadmap (waves 1, 2, and 3)

  • Capability map showing required organizational shifts

  • Named CX leaders responsible for each experience initiative

Format

  • In-person workshop

  • Executive teams, cross-functional leaders, internal CX experts

  • Standard: 2.5-day workshop (vision, roadmap, execution path)

  • Optional: 1-day workshop (priority experiences + CX design principles)

What makes this workshop unique

  • Global insight – Built from Thomas Barta’s work with leading brands across Asia, the Americas, and Europe

  • Growth-first CX – Focus on customer experiences that increase revenue—not just satisfaction

  • Execution built-in – Assigns experience owners during the session for full follow-through

  • Strategy + psychology – Combines customer insight with organizational psychology for realistic implementation