Top Performers Workshop :
How to Build a Business That Can Stand Without You

A free online workshop for business owners ready to reduce pressure, reclaim choice, and protect the legacy they’ve built.

Learn how to shift from founder dependency to founder freedom, while still honouring the business, the people, and the future you’ve worked hard to create.

Includes personalised business benchmarking insights based on your Risk-Profit-Value Driver Assessment.

Top Performers Workshop :
How to Build a Business That Can Stand Without You

Why This Workshop Is Different

Most business workshops offer ideas.

This one offers data, clarity, and real insight into your business.

Your Risk-Profit-Value Driver Assessment compares your business against more than 1.77 million non-financial performance indicators from businesses across multiple industries.

This means the insights you receive aren’t generic advice.

They are grounded in real benchmarking data, helping you understand where your business sits compared to top performers.

The Cost of

Carrying It All

You’ve built a business that works.

But often, it only works because you’re holding it together.

The team relies on you.
The decisions fall on you.
Even time away doesn’t feel like real time away.

Over time, that pressure compounds.

This workshop is designed to help you change that.

You’ll learn how to begin building a business that can stand without you, without selling out, stepping away too soon, or losing your identity as the founder.

The Reality Many Business

Owners Face

Across the SME sector:

42% of business owners don't know what their business is worth

84% have a Value Gap Risk

Only 1 in 10 businesses are truly sale-ready

Not because they built poor businesses. But because most

businesses remain structurally dependent on the founder.

This workshop will help you begin changing that.

Your Personalised Business Benchmark Reports

To make this workshop relevant to your business, you’ll complete a short Risk-Profit-Value Driver Assessment before attending.
Your results will be used during the workshop to generate personalised benchmarking insights.

This short assessment helps identify the non-financial drivers that influence:

Profitability

Business value

Risk exposure

Owner reliance

Profitability

Business value

Risk exposure

Owner reliance

Financial Benchmark Report

See how your business compares to financial performance benchmarks within your industry.

Top Performer Report

Understand what leading businesses in your sector are doing differently.

Business Risk Scorecard

Identify areas where owner reliance, structural risk, or value gaps may exist.

These reports provide clear insight into where your business stands today and where the biggest opportunities for improvement lie.

What You'll Learn

In this 60-minute session, you'll discover:

What sale readiness really means — even if selling isn't your plan

The emotional and structural cost of "being the business"

How to make your business less fragile and more transferable

The succession framework we used when preparing and selling our own firm

How values-led leadership and commercial clarity can coexist

What legacy truly means — and how to protect it

Who This Is For

Business owners who:

Run profitable, team-based businesses
Often feel the business depends too heavily on them
Are starting to think about succession, sustainability, or long-term value
Want to reduce pressure without stepping away prematurely
Are Māori, Pacific, or values-led founders who care deeply about
legacy, whānau, & future impact

Meet Your Presenters

Wyndi Tagi

Business Advisor • Co-Founder, WE Mana
Wyndi brings over 14 years’ experience leading a successful professional services firm, and walking through the complexity of preparing it for sale

She understands the emotional and practical weight of being “the one everyone relies on” and now supports others to step back without stepping away.
Her approach blends strategic insight with calm, grounded leadership, shaped by whakapapa and driven by purpose.

Eli Tagi

Chartered Accountant • Co-Founder, WE Mana

Eli is a seasoned advisor who brings decades of experience in accounting, governance, and business structuring.

As co-founder of WE Mana, he focuses on helping business owners build resilient operations with the numbers, systems, and risk lens required to future-proof the enterprise.

His style is steady, practical, and direct. He works with owners to reduce dependency, identify risk, and build businesses that are less fragile, more transferable, and better aligned to their long-term goals

About WE Mana

Founded by Wyndi and Eli Tagi, WE Mana exists to support Māori and Pacific business owners in building resilient, sale-ready businesses grounded in whakapapa and commercial clarity.

WE Mana’s approach blends the following:

Deep commercial expertise
Cultural responsibility and legacy
Cultural responsibility and legacy
Lived experience in succession and sale
A calm, practical path for tired business owners

This isn’t about a quick exit. It’s about building something that lasts, without it costing you everything.

“Our purpose is to enhance the mana of Māori and Pacific people, creating ripple effects across Aotearoa and Te Moana Nui a Kiwa.”

Testimonials

“Wyndi’s values-based leadership and deep understanding of both governance and operations make her an inspiring and trusted advisor. She blends professionalism with heart, always leading with integrity."
- Melanie C, Pasifika In The Bay

“You rode into my life like a knight in shining armour, picking me up and filling me with inspiration again in those moments where I just wished I could give up, when it all started to feel helpless."
- Amy C, Soul Vibrations With Amy

“Wyndi genuinely cares about your wellbeing — she doesn’t just offer advice, she invests in your journey. Her ability to blend business strategy with cultural and personal guidance has been truly transformative."
- Danika C, Danika Cooper Jewellery