Business Owners / SMEs

Build a trusted peer network with fellow business owners who understand both the professional demands and personal realities of running a business.

This confidential peer group offers a safe, structured environment where SME founders and owners can openly discuss real challenges—without judgment, competition, or sales agendas.

Business owners face a unique set of pressures, from cash flow and growth decisions to people management, risk, and long-term sustainability. In this group, members gain access to practical insights and experience-based solutions drawn directly from peers who sit in the same seat.

As trust deepens over time, meaningful collaborations and referrals often emerge naturally. Members support one another by sharing opportunities, making introductions, and exploring partnerships—voluntarily and organically, grounded in genuine relationships rather than transactions.

The current key topics that are being explored during our meetings, and we regularly seek our members’ input to flex and change these as situations change:

Singapore Grants

How to Fund Raise – Key tips

Transfer Pricing – What is best practice and how does it really work?

Founder Wellness – The Forgotten Employee

Upcoming Financial and Macro Economic Challenges to be prepared for

Funding Raising – When is it needed and how to qualify an Investor

Converting a Micro Business to a Macro one

Privacy and Security for SME’s – What do we really need to know?

How and when to source an Employer of Record for your Business Expansion

Brand Growth while removing yourself from full control

Macroeconomic review – what should we be aware of?

All things Future: Meta, NFT, Crypto, Singapore 5G

Fundraising – What? and How?

The use of a Board of Advisors & Directors

Building Customer Excellence

Marketing: Customers (Lead generation) & Branding

Building Cultural Awareness – improve business and teamwork

From strategy development to effective execution, this is a peer group that will exchange ideas to identify the best practices for tomorrow.
Members of this group are from small Singapore-based companies and include the Regional Director of 3SC, Founder of Wasabi Consulting, Co-Founder & Chief Executive of Intellistride Technologies, Founder of kimbocorp, Managing Director of Avernor Pte Ltd, Chief Executive Officer Relo Network Asia, Director of Codestream, Owner of Fortis Law Corporation, and many more.

Meet the group’s chair

More about Fraser Morrison

Fraser brings over 35 years of experience in building, scaling, and leading businesses across multiple sectors. Throughout his career, he has successfully founded, grown, and advised organisations, always with a focus on driving sustainable revenue growth and developing strong, resilient teams.

His entrepreneurial journey has taken him through a wide range of industries and markets, giving him a practical understanding of what it takes to start, stabilise, and scale a business. Fraser has led companies through both challenging and high-growth phases, combining strategic vision with hands-on execution. Along the way, he has built a reputation for developing innovative sales approaches, cultivating leadership talent, and guiding organisations to unlock new opportunities.

Today, Fraser is the founder and CEO of 1000Steps, a business development and sales growth company that partners with clients to improve outbound lead generation, LinkedIn strategies, event optimisation, thought leadership, and sales consulting. Under his leadership, 1000Steps has scaled rapidly to a team of more than 50 people, working internationally with a wide variety of global clients. The company is built on the principle of combining data, process, and people to deliver measurable results in revenue generation.

Fraser’s passion lies in helping businesses and entrepreneurs think differently about growth. He believes that with the right mindset, structure, and strategy, any company, large or small, can find a pathway to scale successfully. In his work with 1000Steps and beyond, he continues to mentor and advise business leaders, sharing the lessons learned from decades of experience and the practical realities of running and expanding companies.

Peer Group Details

EGN is fundamentally a learning and relationship-driven environment. Members come together to learn from one another’s experiences, build genuine connections, and grow as leaders and business owners.

Any collaboration, referrals, or business opportunities that arise do so naturally and voluntarily, as a result of trust and long-term relationships—not selling or solicitation.

Through guided peer discussions, members:

Address critical business and leadership challenges from an ownership perspective
Exchange proven best practices and shape next practices for sustainable growth
Build long-term, trust-based relationships that may lead to collaboration and mutual business opportunities
EGN is fundamentally a learning and relationship-driven environment. Members come together to learn from one another’s experiences, build genuine connections, and grow as leaders and business owners.
Any collaboration, referrals, or business opportunities that arise do so naturally and voluntarily, as a result of trust and long-term relationships—not selling or solicitation.

To give you a feel of EGN, listen to how our members have benefited from their membership:

Our networks operate within the following frameworks:

You can participate in six (6) peer group meetings each year for a half day at a central Singapore location with dates set a year in advance.
You’ll enjoy access to 36+ Members Only virtual Cross-Functional events per year including focus groups on digital transformation, innovation, human capital, future of works, developing markets, personal development, and networking evenings.
You also get access to 12 in-person Cross-Functional events and 4 Economic Forecasts and 4 speaker panels.
You’ll also get access to our online tools via the EGN Members Universe Mobile App, where you can post queries and connect all global members.
Knowledge sharing in the group is in the strictest confidentiality.
EGN will provide an experienced, certified facilitator to run all aspects of the group and meetings.
The group has its own website with contact data, calendar, documents, and presentations.

Frequently Asked Questions

An EGN membership varies in price, depending on your locality, seniority and the specific benefits applied to the EGN Group.
Our Network Advisors can help you find the right group based on your managerial level and professional needs.
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With the support of a professional network, you get the opportunity to exchange experience on a high professional level, strengthen and develop your own skills within management and specialised areas.
As a member of EGN, you get direct access to Top Executives, Business Leaders and Specialists in most parts of the world via our online Members’ Universe where you can ask questions, join debates and network with more than 15,000 other members.
Your personal EGN group represents a confidential forum where all ideas and challenges can be discussed with peers at your own, professional level. To ensure confidentiality, no competitors or significant customer relationships are allowed in the same group.
All our peer groups are managed by a professional and experienced EGN Chair, who facilitates and mentors the peer groups, ensures output both at and between meetings and focuses on your professional and managerial development.
We also offer events and seminars, networking tours, an Between Jobs Scheme, mentoring programmes, CEO coaching and much more.
Contact us for more information
You can apply for membership by filling out this form
When we have received your application, you will be contacted by a Network Advisor for a more in-depth interview to find the right peer group for your managerial level and/or professional need.
All candidates must be approved by both the Chair and specific peer group members before joining a group. This is done both to match relevant peers and also to avoid private friends, customer relationships and competitors being placed together in the same network group and to help facilitate honest and fruitful discussions.