As a female leader or entrepreneur, you understand better than anyone else the crucial role of investing, innovating, and creating new value. This is the key to continue to grow both personally and professionally, and of course in financial freedom. Your growth goes beyond just increasing sales; it's about impact, meaningful growth, and freedom in every sense of the word.

That is growing profitably in impact, revenue and freedom in all areas.

Growth is about more than just financial gain

For many entrepreneurs, the road to continuous and forward-looking growth is challenging. It's not just about smart strategies or a profitable business and innovative revenue model. You have to minimize waste of your time, energy and costs, automate processes where possible, invest in the right things, and sometimes make difficult choices to stop non-performing investments or relationships. Not for nothing that I often say and experience myself that entrepreneurship is personal development squared. You encounter yourself and you yourself are often the cause of stagnation in your growth.

For me, profitable growth means not only financial success, but more importantly creating impact that contributes to the bigger picture - my legacy. Freedom, both in time and finances, is crucial to this. I want to be able to spend my time and energy on the things and people that really matter. I see money as a form of energy that I want to use to make more impact, reclaim my time, and take good care of myself as well as others.

Strategic leadership and growth in 2025

With one more quarter to go in 2024, it's time to look ahead to 2025. This is the time to evaluate your current position as a leader and take a close look at the value added this year. What went well, what went less well, what can be improved? 

Where are your opportunities for new growth? 

Do the Growth Scan 👇

The Growth Scan - insight into ten critical areas for growth

Where are your new opportunities and challenges for growth in the coming year? 

By completing this growth scan, you will gain insight into your strengths and areas for improvement on a personal, business and financial level. 

Rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10:

1. Strategic growth: Are you struggling to define a forward-looking growth strategy?

2. The right issues: Do you find it difficult to outsource tasks and find the right experts? 

3. Loneliness at the top: Are you missing a network of other entrepreneurs to spar with and form strategic collaborations?

4. Time Management: Do you have difficulty separating operational tasks from strategic leadership? 

5. Innovation and competition: Do you stay relevant in a rapidly changing market?

6. Change Management: Looking for ways to optimize your processes and systems?

7. Leadership: Do you want to further develop your leadership skills to continue to grow?

8. Positioning: Are you standing strong, and are you in the right position? And do you find it challenging to change your positioning?

9. Decision-making: Are you struggling to make strategic choices?

10. Work-life integration: Are you running into the challenge of combining work and home life, integrating your business into your life?

Remember that every challenge is an opportunity to grow. Whether it's improving your time management, honing your ability to innovate or strengthening your decision-making skills - each step forward will make you a better leader and entrepreneur.

Every level a new strategy

Your strategic growth plan for 2025

Now that you have a clearer picture of where you stand, ask yourself the following questions to focus your growth opportunities:

• Which three areas do you most want to improve in the coming year?
• What would be a realistic and ambitious goal for each of these areas?
• What concrete steps can you take to realize these improvements?

Strategic growth is more than just increasing sales. It's about creating sustainable value on a personal, business and financial level. And strengthening your market position and developing a strong team (or freelancers). By focusing on the areas where you see the most growth potential, you can take your leadership, as well as the impact of your business, to the next level.

So, how can you as a leader create both more impact, freedom and profit? 

This requires new insights, bold plans for 2025 and a strategic growth plan that secures your future.

Will you wait and see what comes next? Hopefully.

Or will you take action and take charge of your life, business and future?

One Life. 

Lead it. 

Live it.

Have a great week,

Gerdi

Do you want to win and grow more in 2025? Realize more impact, revenue and freedom in your life and business? 

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Book tips:

Books that have helped me:

Strategy

John Lewis Gaddis - On strategic thinking
Patrick-Bet David & Greg Dinkin - Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
Alex Hormozi - $100M Leads
Alex Hormozi - $100M Offers

Leadership & Entrepreneurship

The Diary of a CEO - Steven Bartlett
Tribes - Seth Godin
Principles - Ray Dalio
The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek
Leading From The Emerging Future - C Otto Scharmer
Transformational Presence - Alan Seale
The Big Leap - Gay Hendricks

PS. I have a whole book list. If you are interested and would like to receive my favorite books list? Send me a message and I'll send you my favorites list. 

Divide = multiply.

As Leader of Your Future = Living and Entrepreneurship on Your Own Terms