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How Firms Hit $50m

Breaking Through Growth Walls

If your firm has ever felt like it hit something immovable overnight, you’re not imagining it. The work keeps coming, the team keeps growing, and yet everything somehow bottlenecks. That’s a growth wall.

Mark Orttung 09

Projectworks CEO Mark Orttung has built his career growing and selling both consulting firms and technology companies.

Dominique Rennell

Projectworks CCO Dominique Rennell advises global consulting firms on how to scale their growth and operations effectively.

Doug Taylor

Projectworks COO Doug Taylor built the consultancy Provoke into a global success before co-founding Projectworks. He's a serial founder and respected leader in professional services.

How Firms Hit $50m: Breaking Through Growth Walls

In this episode, Dominique Rennell sits down with Mark Orttung and Doug Taylor to unpack their playbook behind The $50 Million Consulting Firm, their blueprint for scaling a consultancy through the messy middle, without losing what made it great in the first place.

You’ll get:

- Practical signals to watch for before growth slows

- Strategies to break through the most common walls without burning out the founder, bloating firm overheads, or stalling momentum

- Straight-talking conversation on what has to change as you grow

- How to spot the next constraint before it hits, and how to keep your growth engine strong as complexity rises.

Join us live to spot your next growth wall, and leave with moves to break through it.

Time

How Firms Hit $50m

Breaking Through Growth Walls

If your firm has ever felt like it hit something immovable overnight, you’re not imagining it. The work keeps coming, the team keeps growing, and yet everything somehow bottlenecks. That’s a growth wall.

Your Z-Suite for this session:

Mark Orttung 09

Projectworks CEO Mark Orttung has built his career growing and selling both consulting firms and technology companies.

Dominique Rennell

Projectworks CCO Dominique Rennell advises global consulting firms on how to scale their growth and operations effectively.

Doug Taylor

Projectworks COO Doug Taylor built the consultancy Provoke into a global success before co-founding Projectworks. He's a serial founder and respected leader in professional services.

How Firms Hit $50m: Breaking Through Growth Walls

In this episode, Dominique Rennell sits down with Mark Orttung and Doug Taylor to unpack their playbook behind The $50 Million Consulting Firm, their blueprint for scaling a consultancy through the messy middle, without losing what made it great in the first place.

You’ll get:

- Practical signals to watch for before growth slows

- Strategies to break through the most common walls without burning out the founder, bloating firm overheads, or stalling momentum

- Straight-talking conversation on what has to change as you grow

- How to spot the next constraint before it hits, and how to keep your growth engine strong as complexity rises.

Join us live to spot your next growth wall, and leave with moves to break through it.

Join Mark, Dominique and Doug for this live conversation

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