Small and medium businesses are the lifeblood of our economy – but obsolete philosophies and poor recruitment of driven younger folks are leading them to fail faster than ever before.For over a decade, I have been figuring out and proving how to do small business right. Today, I am helping lead an entrepreneurial holding company (single family office) and support our portfolio businesses as we continue to grow and make a positive impact on our communities. In my previous role, I worked to turn around and scale a company to become the leading engineered propane solutions provider in North America. Backed by my education in strategic leadership, marketing, finance, real estate, and engineering, I have a demonstrated ability to recruit and lead high performing teams to achieve outstanding results. The foundations of my entrepreneurial leadership style are my analytical and data-driven nature along with my lean and iterative agile project management approach. I dig in deep to solve tough problems and work hard to lead teams to achieve effective outcomes by using my authentic, hands-on, and people-centric approach that I honed through my community outreach volunteering and work as a paramedic.Some of the key successes my teams have achieved under my leadership are:• Reinvigorated a national consumer brand by restructuring the leadership team, shifting the vision, and broadening its capability resulting in over 30 percent growth over a two-year period• Successfully negotiated the acquisition and lead the subsequent merger of a century old national consumer brand• Sourced operating partners, secured debt and equity financing, and supported start-up of a hospitality company• Closed the acquisition and lead the turn-around and expansion of a fine dining restaurant• Sustained continuous improvement momentum and held employee retention through a sudden ownership change• Scaled the operations of an engineering and manufacturing company to support and effect a five-fold increase in growth• Managed the design, build-out, and relocation of a 147,000 sq ft manufacturing facilityIf you too are passionate about building extraordinary SMBs, please send me an InMail so we can connect. I frequently travel throughout the Midwestern United States and southern Ontario.