Welcome to Growthink’s Q4 2025 Newsletter. Below we share:
- Growthink CEO Jay Turo kicks things off with Five Mindsets & Tactics to End 2025 with Force and Launch 2026 Even Better
- Chief Client Officer Anna Vitale on Not Magic, But Momentum
- Entrepreneurial Advisory Lead Bert Carder on How to Improve Your Competitiveness
- Growthink Head of London Office Antonio Barzagli on How Organizations & Non-Profits are Winning with Great Strategy & Execution
To all of our success,
CEO
Growthink, Inc.
Q4 is where smart operators win twice: by finishing the current year with urgency and forceful momentum for the next. Deals can close this year. Momentum can accelerate. And the groundwork for a great 2026 can be firmly and excitingly established.
Here are five mindsets & tactics to make these next 90 days count:
1.Push the Risk Envelope
Ask yourself: “If time and money were no object, what decisive action would I take before year-end?”
Whether that’s going after a transformational client, funding a growth initiative, or making a key strategic hire, Q4 is the moment for courageous, higher risk / higher ROI decisions & actions that are always the only real path to transformational business change, growth, and success.
2. Deploy AI for Business Intelligence
AI agents can now listen to calls, summarize meetings, analyze pipelines, and surface strategic insights faster than any of us can do manually and “analog.”
So whether it’s deploying an agent to distill key takeaways from client and prospect calls, or turning internal brainstorming discussions into actionable tactics and strategies, AI intelligence tools have moved from “shiny object” phase to business essential.
Commit to rolling out even one well-chosen AI intelligence tool before year-end to materially sharpen decision-making and give your team a strategic edge heading into 2026.
3. Think and Act Globally
For companies of all sizes, global thinking and doing is a way too often overlooked growth lever.
Whether it’s expanding into new customer segments overseas, sourcing strategic partners, or tapping into international supply chains, Q4 is the ideal time to move from going global “someday” to concrete action right now. The suggestion here is to just start small: pilot a single market entry initiative, test international demand for a core offering, or line up one strategic alliance..
4. Be Organizationally Creative
The most effective firms mix W-2 employees, fractional execs, specialized 1099 talent, offshore support, and smart tech. Use Q4 to reassess how your business actually runs. Where can you outsource, automate, or restructure for quality and cost? Locking in these improvements now lets you hit 2026 lean and ready.
5. Plan Boldly, Commit Fully
Great business years don’t happen by accident—they’re planned and committed to in advance. Let’s write down our 2026 plans, align our team to them, and commit. As Goethe said, “Once one commits, Providence moves too.”
Execute with urgency now, and both this year and next year will thank you for it.
Growthink has a team of business experts who can work alongside you to develop strategies and solutions to grow your business in Q4 2025 and beyond. Learn more here.
Chief Client Officer Anna Vitale on Not Magic, But Momentum
This quarter, I’ve noticed something subtle but powerful across our client base: clarity is returning—not about the markets or the economy, but about purpose.
One owner wrote nearly a year after our first meeting. Back then, he hesitated to relocate his roll-forming machine to a key client’s warehouse. This month, he did it: the equipment is being installed alongside a dozen others.
Another pair of founders—both military veterans—closed the first $55M tranche of a VC/PE fund focused on national-defense innovation, supported by the SBIC program. They turned conviction into capital.
And after months in a haze of AI uncertainty, a third client hired an AI-agent/digital-transformation firm to overhaul RevOps—automating workflows that used to consume entire afternoons and providing real telemetry while giving hours back for higher-value work.
None of this is magic—and none of these owners expected it to be.
This is the energy of Q4: disciplined improvement, the integration of new tools, the acceptance that disruption isn’t an ending, and a choice for momentum over stasis.
Growthink assists business owners & executives realize the exit outcome that is uniquely right for them. Learn more here.
Entrepreneurial Advisory Practice Lead Bert Carder on How to improve Your Competitiveness
In every market cycle, competitiveness defines survival. For SMBs, 2026 will reward those who adapt faster and operate smarter. AI automation is now the most practical way to gain that edge. Not as a buzzword, but as a tool to sharpen focus, eliminate drag, and unlock capacity.
Here are three ways to start improving competitiveness now:
- Automate the Manual: Use AI to handle repetitive admin, data entry, and reporting, freeing people for value-creating work.
- See What’s Coming: Deploy AI forecasting tools that identify trends, risks, and opportunities before your competitors do.
- Accelerate Decision-Making: AI can synthesize inputs from across your business and turn them into clear, actionable insights, instantly.
At Growthink, we help business owners turn uncertainty into advantage by improving focus, efficiency, and competitiveness. Momentum doesn’t come from doing more, it comes from doing what matters most.
If you’re ready to strengthen your competitiveness for 2026, CLICK HERE to connect.
Growthink Head of London Office Antonio Barzagli on How San Diego Food Bank is Feeding Growth and Impact
Last week, I had the opportunity to visit our long-standing client, the San Diego Food Bank, one of the largest food banks in the United States.
We’ve been working together for a couple of years now, but it was only recently that I had the chance to tour their impressive 90,000 sq ft facility in San Diego. Through their network of partner organizations, they provide food monthly to about 600,000 people living at or below the poverty line. In 2024 alone, they distributed 48 million pounds of food.
Growthink helped model the most efficient use of dry, refrigerated, and frozen storage across three warehouses (two current and one planned) to maximize both the intake of donations and weekly food distribution. As part of our partnership, we also worked on the strategic and financial plan to acquire the third, more centrally located building in San Diego.
Following our engagement, they successfully purchased the central facility—a major milestone that will significantly expand their capacity and transform the organization. This expansion pushes their capacity beyond 100 million pounds annually—enough to cover the entire local population living in poverty.
I’ve always been impressed by this nonprofit’s ability to make strategic and financial decisions driven not just by donations and support, but by what makes the most sense for long-term sustainability and impact. (See more about this in CEO Casey Castillo’s recent interview with our team, here).
I’m excited to share this inspiring story to encourage other organizations—near and far—to dream big and execute accordingly.
Happy October!
