Polsky Exchange: Align Your Team, Accelerate Your Growth: A Workshop for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs and small business teams don't have time—or money—to waste.
These four questions show up again and again in small businesses:
● “How do we make progress when the work feels too big?”
● “How do we stay focused when everything feels urgent?”
● “How do we stay aligned when juggling roles?”
● “How do we keep our team energized and learning?”
This workshop helps leaders answer them with clarity and confidence by giving them a practical, easy‑to‑use system for staying aligned, prioritizing the right work, and eliminating the costly inefficiencies that slow growth. Using proven Agile principles adapted for small business teams, participants learn how to focus on what truly drives results, reduce rework, and make faster, clearer decisions that keep the business moving forward.
Through hands-on activities and real‑world application, teams and founders experience how small shifts in collaboration and clarity can lead to big gains: more consistent delivery, happier customers, and stronger revenue opportunities. Everyone leaves with simple, repeatable tools they can use immediately to save time, save money, and work together with more confidence and impact.
Speakers:
Andrew Don helps mission-driven teams build systems that scale. With experience across operations, startups, venture capital, software engineering, and nonprofits, he brings structure to ambitious ideas. As cofounder of Catalyst Impact Studio and a certified Scrum practitioner with 14 years of experience across many industries, he works with teams to co-create agile, practical processes that unlock their full potential.
He believes in James Clear’s wisdom: “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” The right systems make bold goals achievable. Beyond his core work, Andrew serves impact-focused organizations as a grant maker, board member, volunteer, and startup advisor across nonprofit and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Eric Wu is passionate about helping leaders, teams, and founders build the clarity and systems they need to grow sustainably. With over 20 years of experience across higher education, consumer packaged goods, financial services, and nonprofits, he specializes in leadership development, facilitation, and designing communities of practice that strengthen collaboration and inclusive culture.
His life mantra is “Yes, And” — the foundational principle of improvisational comedy — which guides how he collaborates and co-creates with others. As cofounder of Catalyst Impact Studio, he partners with mission-driven organizations and entrepreneurs to navigate complexity, sharpen strategy, and build the human infrastructure that supports intentional growth. He holds an MS from Northwestern University and a BS from The Wharton School. He has also completed the Improvisation program at the Second City Training Center and is a longtime Toastmasters member.