From Startup to Established: Navigating Business Growth
NAVIGATING GROWTH
What does it take to move a business from one stage of growth to the next?
Growing a business is hard.
At different stages, business owners face new decisions about where to invest, what risks to take, what needs to change and what is important to hold onto.
Following this year's MBS Alumni Reunion, join us for a practical conversation exploring the real growth journeys of two business owners who have navigated their businesses from start-up to established businesses.
Sometimes the next growth lever is getting more out of what you've already built.
THE CONVERSATION WILL EXPLORE
Where their businesses are today, and what it actually took to get there.
We'll not only explore where their businesses are today — we'll go behind what it actually took to get there.
01
THE
decisions
The decisions that unlocked the next stage of growth
02
WITH
hindsight
What worked, what didn't, and what they would do differently with hindsight
03
WHAT THEY
held onto
What they deliberately held onto as the business grew
MEET THE BUSINESS OWNERS
Hear from business owners who've navigated through stages of growth
Josh Murray
FOUNDER & HEAD OF STRATEGY · JOSH'S RAINBOW EGGS · MBS MBA CANDIDATE
Josh Murray started Josh’s Rainbow Eggs at just nine years old, selling eggs from his family farm to neighbours before taking them to farmers’ markets. Today, the Victorian agribusiness supplies major retailers including Coles and Woolworths. Along the way, Josh has helped navigate the business from a childhood venture to a growing retail brand — evolving its operations, distribution and scale while maintaining a strong focus on sustainability, community and purpose. He is currently completing his MBA at Melbourne Business School while continuing to lead the business.
Jonathan Edmonds
FOUNDER & CEO · LA VITA CARE · MBS ALUMNUS
Jonathan Edmonds is the founder and CEO of La Vita Care, a Melbourne-based provider of personal care and support. His experience supporting his mother through Motor Neurone Disease became the catalyst for establishing La Vita Care, which has since supported hundreds of people and families. Jonathan brought a background in strategy, service innovation and business transformation to building the organisation, and has led it through more than a decade of growth and change in the disability and care sector.
ALUMNI NETWORKING
Continue the conversation with fellow business owners.
Stay for drinks and canapés and connect with fellow MBS alumni who own and grow businesses.
With places intentionally limited, the evening is designed to create space for genuine conversation — to compare experiences, exchange ideas and meet other owners navigating business ownership and growth.
Good conversation. Shared experience. New connections.
YOUR HOST
Hosted by Soklang Eng
CUSTOMER GROWTH ADVISOR TO SME BUSINESSES · MBS ALUMNA
Soklang works with established business owners to identify and realise more of the growth and value already sitting inside the businesses they've built.
Her work explores a deceptively simple question:
WHO IS THIS FOR
This conversation is for you if…
You own or lead an established business and you're:
01
thinking about the next stage of growth;
02
navigating changes in your market, customers or competitive environment;
03
weighing up where to focus and what needs to change;
04
interested in learning from owners who’ve navigated growth themselves; or
05
looking to connect with other MBS alumni on the business-ownership journey.
A practical conversation about the reality of growing a business.
EVENT DETAILS
Join the conversation
WHEN
Wednesday 11 November 2026
6.30–9pm
WHERE
Mawby Theatre
Melbourne Business School
200 Leicester Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
TICKETS
$25
Limited places