Why Growing Companies Create Bad Managers

And what to do about it before it starts costing you.

Thursday, June 18, 2026 1:00 PM CT 60 minutes Β· Zoom

If your company is growing fast, your management teams are under pressure you may not even see yet. In this live session, leadership consultant Tony Sanders breaks down the three reasons growing companies systematically create bad managers β€” and introduces a framework for fixing it before it compounds.

  • Why the conditions of growth itself work against leadership development

  • How to identify which leadership pillar is breaking down in your organization right now

  • What a systematic fix looks like and exactly where to start

  • Why most growing companies are solving the wrong problem entirely

WHO THIS IS FOR

Founders

COOs

HR leaders

and operations executives at companies with 100 or more employees who are scaling fast and want to make sure their leadership layer can hold the weight.

A leadership consultant who has lived inside the problem.

Tony Sanders is the founder of Grow With Gawlo, a fractional Learning & Development partner for growing organizations. He's spent the last decade working alongside founders, COOs, and HR leaders inside companies that are scaling faster than their training systems can keep up.

"Most growing companies don't have a people problem. They have a learning systems problem."

He's facilitated leadership development for teams across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, and consumer services β€” and he's about to spend 60 minutes with you on the single most preventable failure mode he sees in scaling companies.

What Leaders Are Saying

Trusted by Scaling Organizations

Vanessa Brown

"Thank you Tony Sanders for partnering with our team and leaning into our ​#multiplierLeader workshop! The curriculum was top-notch. And you are an such an engaging and dynamic facilitator.

Jack Alvey

"Thank you very much for speaking at Indiana Municipal Power Agency's 2024 Annual. We heard many favorable comments from our Board embers and truly appreciate you taking the time to participate in our Annual Meeting."

Megan Perratore

β€œTony perfectly blended business insights with personal stories, making the session both impactful and engaging. Most of our members said he was the highlight of our 2-day meeting, leaving everyone energized with actionable takeaways.”

Savanna Fox

β€œI got to empower our leaders yesterday by bringing the brilliant Tony Sanders onsite at Rush Memorial!”

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