Know Your Future.
Craft a Winning
Strategic Plan.
Create a bold, clear vision for your business and build a strategic plan to get there — with confidence. Using the proven Simple-Growth Business Growth System™, this training helps you map your future success, set powerful goals, and craft a strategic plan that turns ambition into action.
3-month programme · Approx. 28 hours · Hybrid (Zoom + in-person)
Price: $8,000–$10,000 · RBP co-funding covers up to 50% (up to $5,000 excl. GST)
You'll Learn How To:
- Envision what success looks like in 1, 3, 5 or even 20 years
- Set crystal-clear business goals that inspire action and accountability
- Break big ambitions into achievable short, medium and long-term targets
- Build a step-by-step strategic roadmap your whole team can follow
- Align your time, team and resources behind a focused, winning plan
Ready to build a business with a real future? The government pays up to half the cost.
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Know Your Destination — and Build the Plan to Reach It
The most successful businesses aren't guessing where they're going — they've got a clear roadmap. In this fun, focused and practical training, you'll use the Simple-Growth Business Growth System™ to visualise your long-term business future and craft a powerful strategic plan to guide you there.
Whether you're dreaming of scaling nationally, launching new offerings, or building a business that runs without you — this training helps you define your vision and, more importantly, plot the steps to make it real.
Through practical exercises, simple templates, and real-world examples from high-growth businesses, you'll walk away with a high-level strategic plan that captures your big-picture vision and the actions required to get there. This isn't a document that sits on a shelf. It's a living, breathing plan that drives your daily decisions.
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What You'll Achieve
Walk Away With a Real Strategic Plan — Not Just Inspiration
Get clear. Get confident. Know your future — and exactly how to reach it.
A Bold, Clear Business Vision
A vivid picture of exactly where your business is heading in 1, 3, 5 and 20 years — written down and ready to share with your team.
A Step-by-Step Strategic Roadmap
A practical, actionable plan that shows exactly how you get from where you are now to where you want to be.
Powerful, Accountable Goals
Crystal-clear goals that inspire action, with built-in accountability so you actually follow through on what matters most.
A Plan Your Team Can Follow
A shared roadmap that aligns your team around a common direction — so everyone pulls in the same direction, every day.
Practical Templates & Tools
Ready-to-use planning templates and frameworks that make it easy to keep your strategic plan alive and relevant as your business grows.
Confidence to Execute
The clarity and conviction to make big decisions fast — because you have a plan that tells you exactly what to prioritise and why.
"Kevin has done a great job of understanding our business and looking for ways to improve."
New Zealand Government Funding
Up to $5,000 in RBP Co-Funding — Half Your Cost Covered by the Government
The NZ Government's Regional Business Partners Management Capability Development Fund subsidises up to 50% of approved training costs. Simple-Growth (Motherbase Limited) is a fully accredited provider — meaning your RBP voucher applies directly to our programmes.
Register Free with RBP
Takes 5–10 minutes at the RBP website. All you need is your NZBN. Free to join with no minimums.
Free Growth Advisor Session
Your local RBP partner contacts you within 48 hours. A free 30-min session confirms your capability gaps and funding eligibility.
Receive Your Voucher
Once approved, receive a voucher covering up to 50% of your training cost — up to $5,000 excl. GST per financial year (July–June).
Enrol & Start Growing
Apply your voucher to Simple-Growth. You pay your 50% co-contribution — the government covers the rest. Start immediately.
✅ Quick Eligibility Check
Note: Charitable Trusts and Incorporated Societies are not eligible. Funding is subject to availability and Growth Advisor approval.
Or register directly with RBP: web.regionalbusinesspartners.co.nz
Your Trainer
Kevin D'Ambros-Smith
The Simple-Growth Coach
Kevin has founded and scaled 9 companies and drawn on the strategies of 60+ world-class brands — including McDonald's, Samsung, IBM, Nestlé, Unilever, Heineken, GSK, Heinz, Johnson & Johnson, Westpac and many more — to build the Simple-Growth System.
Trained at DDB, Ogilvy and Saatchi & Saatchi, Kevin has coached SME owners across 30+ industries throughout New Zealand, Australia and beyond. His RBP programmes carry a perfect NPS score of 9.5/10.
Nationwide Coverage
Available Across All 15 New Zealand RBP Regions
This programme is delivered via hybrid (Zoom + in-person) sessions and is available in every RBP region across Aotearoa New Zealand. Your local RBP Growth Advisor approves your funding — Simple-Growth delivers the training.
🌏 Nationwide — Māori Businesses
Poutama Trust
Supporting Māori-owned businesses across all of New Zealand
📍 Northland
Northland Inc
Whangarei, Far North, Kaipara
📍 Auckland
Auckland Business Chamber
All Auckland regions — NZ's largest SME hub
📍 Waikato
SODA Inc.
Hamilton, Thames-Coromandel, Matamata-Piako
📍 Bay of Plenty
Tauranga Chamber of Commerce
Tauranga, Rotorua, Whakatāne, Kawerau
📍 Tairāwhiti / East Coast
Trust Tairāwhiti
Gisborne, East Cape
📍 Taranaki
Venture Taranaki
New Plymouth, Stratford, South Taranaki
📍 Manawatū Whanganui
CEDA
Palmerston North, Whanganui, Rangitīkei, Ruapehu
📍 Hawke's Bay
Hawke's Bay Chamber of Commerce
Napier, Hastings, Central Hawke's Bay, Wairoa
📍 Wellington
WellingtonNZ
Wellington, Hutt Valley, Porirua, Kāpiti
📍 Marlborough, Nelson & Tasman
Nelson Regional Development Agency
Nelson, Marlborough, Tasman, Kaikōura
📍 West Coast
Development West Coast
Greymouth, Westport, Hokitika, Reefton
📍 Canterbury
ChristchurchNZ
Christchurch, Selwyn, Waimakariri, Timaru, Ashburton
📍 Otago
Business South Inc
Dunedin, Queenstown, Central Otago, Waitaki
📍 Southland
Great South
Invercargill, Gore, Fiordland, Clutha
Not sure who your local partner is? Registration takes 5–10 minutes. Your Growth Advisor will be in touch within 48 hours.
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Complete the form below and Kevin will personally be in touch to discuss your eligibility, your goals, and how to get your RBP funding approved — fast.
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Kevin will personally review your enquiry and be in touch within one business day to discuss your training options, RBP co-funding eligibility, and next steps.
In the meantime, you can get a head start by registering with your local RBP partner here — it takes just 5–10 minutes.
Get Clear. Get Confident.
Know Your Future — Starting Now.
The government pays up to half the cost. The Simple-Growth System delivers the roadmap. All you have to do is take the first step.
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