Ready for More, Texas.

A VEGA© × Mark L. Madrid Partnership

For Austin & Texas Business Owners

Can You Win the Opportunity
And Still Deliver?

A bigger customer. A new location. Your next stage of growth. Does your business have the leadership and systems to make it work?

Mark L. Madrid and Rajesh Tedla are joining forces through VEGA© to help established businesses turn growth opportunities into plans their teams can execute.

Find My Next Growth Move Why This Partnership Matters

Complimentary 45-minute Zoom call with Rajesh Tedla.

Mark L. Madrid
Mark L. MadridEconomic perspective.
Entrepreneurial leadership.
Rajesh Tedla
Rajesh TedlaGrowth systems.
Disciplined execution.

Two Perspectives. Your Business at the Center.

01 Stronger Leaders

02 Systems That Support Growth

03 Plans That Move Into Action

Opportunity Outside. Capacity Inside.

Can Your Business Carry Your Next Opportunity?

Winning more work is only part of growth. Your people, decisions, and day-to-day operations have to keep up.

That is the purpose of this partnership: bring Mark’s perspective on entrepreneurs, economic opportunity, and human-centered AI together with Rajesh’s approach to developing leaders and building systems for execution.

Through VEGA©, Visionary Entrepreneurs Growth Accelerator©, you work on your own company’s priorities, with practical tools and support to apply them.

Mark L. Madrid

The Wider Perspective

Mark L. Madrid

Founder & CEO, Breakthrough Mavens
Former Associate Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration

Mark brings national small-business leadership, economic strategy, and a practical focus on human-centered AI. At the SBA, he and his team supported more than four million small businesses.

His contribution to this partnership: connect the demands of a changing economy with the leadership and capabilities entrepreneurs need to respond.

  • UT Austin graduate
  • Economic strategist
  • AI futurist
Rajesh Tedla

The Operating Discipline

Rajesh Tedla

Founder & CEO, VRT Management Group, LLC
Creator of VEGA©

Rajesh brings senior leadership experience at GE and years of mentoring entrepreneurs through the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative / LBAN business scaling program.

His contribution: help you turn business goals into clearer priorities, stronger leadership, accountable owners, and a practical rhythm for getting things done.

  • Former GE senior leader
  • Entrepreneur mentor
  • Strategy & execution

A Question Before You Scale

If Your Next Big Opportunity Arrived Tomorrow, What Would Feel the Strain First?

More revenue can also mean more decisions, coordination, and delivery pressure. These are the challenges that sound familiar to many owners.

A conversation starter for your business, not a formal assessment.

Where Would You Focus?

01 The team still needs me too often. Important decisions wait for your approval, even when capable people are in place.
02 More work creates more friction. Handoffs break down, roles overlap, and the same problems keep coming back.
03 Our growth plans lose momentum. Urgent work wins. Strategic priorities have no consistent owner or review.
04 We need to prepare for what is changing. New opportunities and AI raise questions about where to focus and what to strengthen first.

Your Starting Point

Bring Your Real Questions.

Whatever questions you have about growth, leadership, capacity, or the Texas cohort, just come with them. You do not need a polished plan.

Talk Through My Next Growth Move →

What You Build Through VEGA©

Is Growth Something Your Team Can Actually Act On?

Work on the decisions, leadership, and operating habits that make your company more capable of delivering its next stage.

01 / Direction

Can Your Leaders Explain One Clear Plan?

Connect your longer-term direction to the few priorities that matter now, so your team can make more consistent decisions.

Work on: your one-page strategic plan.

02 / Ownership

Does Responsibility Still Stop With You?

Clarify roles and expectations. Identify the leadership capabilities your managers need to take greater ownership.

Work on: accountabilities and leadership development priorities.

03 / Execution

Who Owns the Next Step, Really?

Turn a growth priority into a project with an accountable owner, milestones, and a measure of progress.

Work on: project charters and an execution roadmap.

04 / People

Are Crossed Wires Slowing Your Team?

Understand how your leaders communicate, make decisions, and respond under pressure. Use those insights to improve how you work together.

Work on: TriMetrix® HD insights and Dynamic Communication.

05 / Systems

Is Your Business Ready for Its Next Stage?

Examine the constraints that come with your current size. Focus on the people and processes that need to evolve as you grow.

Work on: your 7 Stages of Growth priorities.

06 / Follow-Through

Will the Work Keep Moving After the Room?

Apply your plans, bring implementation questions to mentoring, and learn with other owners facing the realities of growth.

Continue with: 12 months of group mentoring.

The partnership adds perspective. VEGA© gives the work a structure. You bring your business challenges; the goal is to turn them into focused decisions and practical commitments.

Explore the Fit for My Company →

Your Next Opportunity to Begin

Will Your Leaders Build It
And Put It to Work?

The Texas VEGA© cohort combines focused in-person work with support to keep applying what you build.

Greater Austin, Texas

November
5, 6 & 7, 2026

Three days in person.
Twelve months of group mentoring.

Reserve Your Seat ↗

Before the Cohort

Get a Clearer Starting Point.

Complete assessments and identify the business priorities you want to work on.

During the Three Days

Make Decisions Together.

Work on strategy, leadership, communication, and execution with your coach and peer cohort.

Over the Following Year

Build the Habit of Execution.

Apply your tools, review progress, and bring real implementation challenges to group mentoring.

Best suited to established U.S. entrepreneur-led businesses, especially teams with 20 to 200 employees. Founders, owners, CEOs, presidents, and key leaders in construction, manufacturing, services, and other operating businesses are welcome to discuss fit.

Ask Rajesh about company fit, team participation, investment, and venue details.

Start With Your Business

What Has to Change Before Your Next Stage of Growth?

Bring that question to a complimentary 45-minute Zoom call with Rajesh Tedla.

Use the conversation to examine what is slowing your company down, where your team needs more capacity, and whether VEGA© is the right next step.

  1. Put your goal into focus.What should your business be able to do over the next 12 months that it cannot do consistently today?
  2. Talk through the constraint.Is the biggest obstacle leadership, ownership, systems, or follow-through?
  3. Discuss a practical next step.Explore the support your company needs, the Texas cohort, and who on your team should be involved.

You do not need a polished plan. Bring one real business challenge.

A Few Things You May Want to Know.

How is this different from a strategy workshop?

You work on your company’s priorities, leadership, and execution tools, then continue applying them with 12 months of group mentoring. The emphasis is on building an approach your team can use in the business.

Who will I speak with on the call?

Your initial Zoom conversation is with Rajesh Tedla. This is the place to discuss your company, your priorities, and how VEGA© and the partnership may be relevant. Mark’s participation in specific sessions can be discussed with the team.

Should I bring another leader from my company?

It can help to include a key leader who will share responsibility for execution. Discuss your team and the cohort participation requirements with Rajesh before registering.

What about the venue and investment?

The Texas cohort is scheduled for November 5, 6 & 7, 2026 in the Greater Austin area. Ask Rajesh or Kumar for the venue, current investment, preparation, and availability before making travel or enrollment arrangements.

Stronger Businesses.
More Opportunity for the People Behind Them.

Our ambition is to help 1,000 entrepreneurs create $1 million or more in business value each by 2030. It is a shared goal, with outcomes dependent on each company’s circumstances and implementation.

Your Business.
Your Next Growth Move. Book a Call ↗