INFLUENCE • For established owners ready to think bigger
Elevate Your Thinking.
Grow Your Business.
Find Your People.
Think bigger with established owners carrying similar weight.
There comes a stage in business when the decisions become bigger, the stakes become higher and fewer people truly understand what you are carrying.
You have built a successful business, an experienced team and a strong reputation. Growth at this level calls for greater perspective, trusted relationships and people who can challenge your thinking.
Influence is D32's boardroom: the highest-level peer forum, created for established owners facing bigger decisions, greater responsibility and a different set of leadership challenges.
A quick gut-check
Is Influence right for you?
You have built the business. Now you are leading something much bigger than yourself. Influence provides a trusted environment where you can make better strategic decisions alongside experienced owners who carry similar responsibilities.
Influence may be right for you if you:
Lead an established business, typically generating $1 million to $10 million or more
Want to reduce your involvement in day-to-day operations
Have outgrown general business networking and broad mastermind groups
Value discretion, depth and commercially intelligent conversations
Carry responsibility for a growing team, significant revenue and high-consequence decisions
Are considering further scale, succession, acquisition, exit or your next venture
Want trusted peers who understand the weight of leadership
Want to contribute your experience while continuing to be challenged
Your growth journey
One growth journey. Four stages.
Ignite
Build momentum and create consistent growth.
Impact
Step into sharper thinking, structure and strategic support.
Influence
Think bigger, lead with impact and build a lasting legacy.
YOU ARE HERE
Influence is the premium stage of the D32 Growth Journey, created for established owners seeking trusted peers, strategic depth and meaningful conversations about scale, leadership, succession and legacy.
When the challenges change
When business reaches this level, the challenges change.
You may have already achieved many of the goals you once worked towards. The business is firmly established, the team is growing and the decisions are bigger. Success brings a different kind of pressure.
Your focus now includes leading people, building executive capability, scaling sustainably, succession, acquisitions, governance and creating a business that can thrive without depending on you every day.
You may be feeling that:
The business still depends on you more than it should
Your leadership team needs to step up to another level
You have outgrown the business conversations in your current network
You need a clearer perspective on scale, succession, acquisition or exit
The decisions are becoming more complex and consequential
You want greater freedom while maintaining momentum
You are ready to think about contribution, legacy or what comes next
Imagine what changes
Imagine six months from now.
Imagine having trusted, experienced owners with whom you can speak openly
about decisions that are difficult to discuss with your team, employees or clients.
Clearer perspective
Step back from an immediate problem and see it through the eyes of people who have faced similar pressures, transitions and opportunities.
Better decisions
Make important decisions with greater clarity as better questions reveal fresh perspectives.
Valuable introductions
Develop relationships that lead naturally to valuable introductions, partnerships and opportunities.
Space to lead
Create more space to lead, shape the future and decide what you want the next chapter to become.
Influence creates the environment for greater perspective, stronger leadership and more intentional growth.
The Influence difference
What does Influence support?
Influence supports your next stage through five key areas.
Perspective
Step back from immediate demands and see the broader strategic picture with experienced peers around you.
Strategic depth
Explore the decisions that matter at this level: leadership, scale, succession, acquisition, exit, investment and what comes next.
Trusted relationships
Develop strong, commercially intelligent relationships with owners who understand the responsibility you carry.
Leadership
Strengthen your ability to lead through others, develop your executive team and reduce founder dependence.
Freedom and legacy
Create greater choice around your time, contribution and future through growth, succession, exit or building something new.
At the heart of Influence
Meet the Influence Forum.
The Influence Forum is a confidential, facilitated environment where experienced
business owners work through decisions that shape the future of their businesses.
Each month, members bring genuine strategic challenges, test their thinking and
explore what comes next.
This is more than networking.
A trusted boardroom of peers.
Bring live strategic challenges for discussion
Test ideas and important decisions with experienced peers
Explore leadership, scale, succession and owner independence
Learn from high-quality speakers and specialist contributors
Develop trusted relationships across complementary industries
Access valuable introductions and commercial opportunities
Leave with clearer thinking and meaningful next actions
Shared, then private.
Parts of the Forum bring Impact and Influence members together for learning and introductions. Influence members then continue in their own private peer forum for deeper discussion.
Better decisions come from honest questions and trusted perspective.
What members access
What's inside Influence?
Influence brings together the perspective, relationships and strategic environment
established owners need to keep evolving. Members have access to:
Monthly Influence Forums
Expert speakers and strategic learning
High-value one-to-one meetings
Commercial opportunities and collaborations
Kadenz activity, relationship and progress tracking
Selected Impact and Influence experiences
Curated peer conversations with established owners
MAXI Growth Intensives
Strategic introductions
Priority visibility across D32
Speaking, mentoring and leadership opportunities
Everything is designed to help you think more clearly, lead more effectively and
build what comes next.
The influence promise
Elevate. Grow. Find.
Elevate your thinking
Step away from operational detail and into conversations that challenge assumptions, broaden perspective and strengthen high-consequence decisions.
Influence connects you with established owners who understand the complexity of leadership at this stage.
Grow your business
Growth at this level may mean scale, stronger margins, acquisitions, leadership development, succession or creating a business that operates with less dependence on you.
Influence provides the relationships and strategic environment to support that next stage.
Find your people
Leadership can become isolating. Influence connects you with experienced owners who understand the responsibility, ambiguity and opportunity that come with leading an established organisation.
These are trusted peers who can support, challenge and champion you.
How Influence works
Influence works because members contribute.
The strength of Influence comes from the experience of the people involved and their willingness to participate openly and generously. Kadenz supports this rhythm by making participation, relationships and progress visible over time.
Forum participation
Strategic introductions
One-to-one conversations
Sharing experience and perspective
Supporting fellow members
Attending key D32 experiences
Speaking, mentoring and leadership opportunities
Referring established owners who would strengthen the group
A deeper environment for growth
A more considered way to lead.
At this stage, random events and surface-level conversations have limited value. Influence is built around consistency, trust and strategic depth.
Members spend time with a carefully selected group of established owners, develop relationships over time and have space to discuss issues that cannot always be shared elsewhere. These relationships, perspectives and commercially intelligent conversations support your next stage of leadership, growth and freedom.
The quality of the people creates the quality of the experience.
The Influence difference
Established leaders. Genuine perspective. Lasting growth.
Influence members share how D32 has helped them:
Develop stronger strategic relationships
Think more clearly about scale and leadership
Strengthen their leadership team and decision-making
Create greater freedom and choice around what comes next
Access valuable introductions and opportunities
Build businesses that rely less heavily on the founder
Feel less isolated at the top
Add your strongest established-owner video and results-led testimonials here, chosen around scaling beyond $1 million, multi-location or franchise expansion, significant commercial partnerships, leadership-team growth, owner independence, acquisition, succession or exit, and the value of trusted peer conversations.
Your next step
Ready to think bigger with the right people around you?
You have already built something significant. Influence gives you the space to step back, strengthen your thinking and decide what the next stage should become, alongside established owners who understand what you are carrying.
If you are ready for deeper conversations, trusted relationships and greater strategic perspective, Influence may be your next step.