The Secrets of Scaling Without Breaking: A Fireside Chat

​Growing a business is exciting. Scaling it is a different challenge.
Every business reaches a point where the approach that got you this far stops working. Hiring gets harder. Teams get stretched. Costs go up.
At some point you have to ask a different question. How do we keep growing without making the business harder to run?

That was the challenge Dominic Barba faced while growing both taxtalk, a consumer tax platform, and Integritas, an accounting firm. Two successful businesses. Two completely different operating models. One common problem - Growth was outpacing the ability to hire locally. That question led Dom to challenge some long held assumptions about where work should happen, how teams should be built, and which parts of a business a leader should hold close versus rethink entirely.

In this fireside chat, Dom shares the decisions behind that journey, the experiments that paid off, the ones that did not, and the lessons he wishes he had known earlier. He shares it through the practical thinking behind decisions made in the middle of real business pressure, rather than through theory or a framework.

Ravijeet Dang, Managing Director of iotasol, will guide the conversation and explore the choices, trade offs, and turning points that shaped the next stage of growth. What you will hear:

• ​The moment growth started outpacing Dom's ability to hire, and the warning signs he almost missed

• ​Why running a consumer business alongside a business to business accounting practice forced him to rethink how both operated

• ​What he changed, what he deliberately kept in Melbourne, and how he decided where to draw the line

• ​Why the biggest shift extended beyond technology and into the delivery of professional services

• ​How he tested his new approach on his own workload before introducing it to clients

• ​The mistakes, the unexpected challenges, and what he would do differently if he had to decide again

• ​The business outcomes that followed, including a 40 percent increase in client capacity

​Whether you are a founder, business owner, or leader navigating the next stage of growth, this conversation offers an honest look at the decisions that determine whether a business simply grows or truly scales. Dom will also take live questions at the end. If you have ever wondered what comes after the early wins, this is a conversation worth joining.

​Come for the story. Stay for the lessons behind the scale.