Empowering Your Team: Developing Leaders for a Thriving MSP

As your MSP grows, building a strong leadership team is vital for success. The challenge is that many small business owners are time poor and ill equipped to train and develop future leaders within their organisation. Join our next MSPs in Conversation, “Empowering Your Team: Developing Leaders for a Thriving MSP,” where we’ll be inviting top leaders in our industry as they explore the essential strategies and tools needed to nurture leadership skills among your employees. Learn how to build a resilient and dynamic team that drives growth, fosters innovation, and ensures long-term success.

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Key Takeaways

1

Leadership Enables Scale

Strong leadership allows business owners to step out of day-to-day operations and focus on growth. Without leadership development, MSPs often stall when founders remain the bottleneck.

2

Leaders Are Often Identified Through Action, Not Titles

The first leaders usually emerge by taking initiative, owning outcomes, and treating the business like their own — not because they were formally promoted or part of a grand plan.

3

Leadership and Management Are Not the Same

Management focuses on metrics, processes, and performance, while leadership is about motivating people, creating alignment, and bringing out the best in others. Great businesses need both — but they are different skills.

4

Psychological Safety Drives High Performance

The best leaders create environments where people can speak up, make mistakes, and learn without fear. Psychological safety is a proven foundation of high-performing teams.

5

Not Every High Performer Should Become a Leader

Outstanding engineers or salespeople don’t automatically make great leaders. Forcing leadership roles too early — or without guardrails — can harm both the individual and the business.

Featured Panelists
Ben Town
Hosted Network
Zaun Bhana
Evergreen
James Bergl
Bluebird
Paul Mangano
Mangano IT

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