Have You Thought About Your PEOPLE Lately?
Are you attracting the right people to help grow your business?
Do you have the right team in the right seats?
Are your employees aligned around a common vision and set of expectations?
Have you built a culture that retains top talent and creates accountability?
As entrepreneurs, we often spend our time focused on sales, operations, and cash flow. Yet one of the greatest determinants of long-term success is the quality of the people who help us build and scale our businesses.
EO Accelerator Learning Day: PEOPLE
Join fellow EO Accelerator participants for a hands-on Learning Day focused on one of the four core pillars of the Accelerator program: PEOPLE.
As your business grows, so do the challenges associated with recruiting, developing, managing, and retaining great talent. Whether you’re preparing to make your first hire, building a leadership team, or refining your company culture, this Learning Day will provide practical tools and frameworks to help you build a stronger organization.
Throughout the day, participants will explore:
Building the right organizational structure for growth
Attracting and retaining top talent
Defining roles, responsibilities, and accountability
Creating a culture people want to be part of
Developing leaders within your organization
Aligning your team around vision, goals, and execution
People Day consistently delivers actionable insights that entrepreneurs can immediately implement to improve team performance and strengthen their businesses.
This is not a lecture. Come prepared to work on your business, share experiences with fellow entrepreneurs, and leave with practical strategies for building a high-performing team.
Preparation
Participants are encouraged to bring their current organizational chart, job descriptions, hiring plans, and any people-related challenges they’d like to workshop with peers.
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2027
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: TBD
RSVP By: January 16, 2027
Who Should Attend: Required for all EO Philadelphia Accelerator participants. EO Members, Strategic Alliance Partners, and Key Executive Forum participants are welcome to attend complimentary. Qualified guests may attend for $149.
Attire: Business Casual
Schedule: Workshop from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
About Ryan Shortill
Ryan Shortill is the Founder & Executive Chairman of Onyx Offsites & Trainings and brings more than three decades of training, facilitation, and entrepreneurial experience to the classroom. A longtime EO member, former Chapter President, EO Accelerator graduate, and EO Accelerator trainer for more than 10 years, Ryan is passionate about helping entrepreneurs unlock growth through practical, experience-based learning.
EO Philadelphia Board Event Policy
Registration & Cancellation Deadline: Registration or cancellation of EO Members, EO Accelerators, or their guests within 72 hours of the start of an event will incur a per-person charge.
For this event, the deadline cutoff is October 17th
No-Shows and Party-Crashers: EO Members, EO Accelerators, and their guests who fail to attend an event, or attend without registering, will incur an event charge per person, plus any event-specific charges.
Charges: A $50 event charge applies to any EO Member, EO Accelerator, and/or their respective guests that fall in any of the above categories.
Charges will be automatically collected via eonetwork.org using the EO Member/EO Accelerators card on file or billed directly from the EO Philadelphia Finance Chair.
Please note, that all event-related charges collected due to late registration/cancelation/no-show/party-crashers will be allocated towards EO Philadelphia's annual GSEA competition prize package.