Entrepreneur Coaching Toronto & Beyond

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Imagine having an expert on leadership and communication as a personal resource. Someone with a deep understanding of your world and of the wild ride that comes with leading a young and growing business.

If you haven’t crystallized a vision for the future, we will work together to form that vision. If you have a vision but haven’t figured out how to get you and your team there, we will build a plan together. Once you have a plan, we will work through the obstacles and distractions that come up along the way.

I work with my clients as:

Their personal & business coach
A facilitator of mission critical team meetings including strategy retreats
An advisor on building a scalable cultural operating system for the business

E to C

E to C (Entrepreneur to CEO)

Many of my clients have started their businesses from scratch as true entrepreneurs. When their businesses take off, they need to shift from an entrepreneurial mindset. They need to become a strong leader of people – and they need to do it fast. If you find yourself at the same point, let’s chat. It’s lonely at the top. We will work through the seven biggest mental shifts that entrepreneurs experience on their way to becoming a true CEO.

Building Blocks

Whether starting a team from scratch or fixing one that feels broken, we work through building blocks for scaling your organization. We start with an assessment of where you and your organization are today. Based on the results, we decide what’s most critical to your success. Our work will draw from a list of over 40 building blocks including culture, strategy, clarity of purpose, communication, relationships, recruiting, compensation, team structure, role definitions, and more.

Fast Growth

As a young team grows, so does the need for management and leadership expertise. Most often top performers from within the team are promoted to fill these roles. Another alternative is to hire a seasoned professional with limited experience reporting to a founder. This program is all about fast growth into a new role or new environment. Refresh your thinking. Test old habits. Be the superstar leader or manager you aspire to be. If you are in a new senior role within a founder-led business, this program is for you.

Pivot

If it’s time for a career or life pivot that includes becoming a first-time entrepreneur, read on. This program builds on your strengths as you transition into a new and different world. Our time together will focus on crystalizing a vision for your entrepreneurial future. We’ll create a plan to get you there. And we’ll set you up with new habits to keep you on track.

Freestyle

Do you feel like you could use a bit of everything and don’t want to be constrained in how we use our time together? Freestyle will be the best fit. You have access to all the tools and resources from the E to C, Building Blocks, Fast Growth and Pivot programs and you call the shots. In each session we will cover the material you want to cover. Bring your most challenging problem and we’ll work through it together.

Facilitation of mission critical
team meetings including strategy retreats

When working in teams our biggest enemies to speed are miscommunication, misalignment, and inaccurate assumptions. Sometimes we need help to break through these difficult and often invisible roadblocks. Team facilitation is highly effective in quickly getting the best ideas on the table and everyone on the same page. Align in a matter of hours so you don’t waste weeks or months of energy. My work with teams includes half-day meetings, full day meetings and multi-day retreats.

Advice and guidance on building
the cultural operating system of your business

Magic happens when a team rallies behind a common purpose, has the right skills, and is enabled by a solid cultural operating system. Most start-ups slowly drift from the entrepreneurial energy that defined early success to a traditional hierarchy laden with bureaucracy. For founders interested in keeping the entrepreneurial energy alive, we work together to implement radical ideas including transparent compensation systems, network-based organizing principles, self-led onboarding processes, distributed decision-making and more.

The Power of Perspective

In as little as 20-minutes we can virtually transform the way your business works. Through a bit of new knowledge and a fresh perspective you can gain profound clarity that otherwise gets lost in the daily chaos of life. Let’s get started with a risk-free trial session.

Test Drive

Real People. Real Success.

“Brent is at the forefront of management thinking for next generation business models.“

– Anthony Koraych, Founder & CEO, Advanced Test & Automation

“Working with Brent was a pleasure. He took the time to “get us”. We improved our company culture and gained valuable insights that are helping us grow as a team.“

– Kim Davidson, Founder & CEO, Side Effects Software

“I’ve been working with Brent for several years and see him as not only a coach but as a mentor and incredible sounding board. Even though we are in different parts of the country, I’ve had better results and a much closer, deeper relationship with Brent than any coach I’ve worked with in person. Brent is professional, perceptive, practical, and a real asset to my personal and business direction.“

– Holly Bond, VP Sales, Bullfrog Power

Your Coach. Advisor.
Counselor. Consultant. Guide.

My clients use a variety of terms to describe their relationship with me. I offer a confidential environment where you can speak openly and honestly. Our conversations offer a ‘mental sandbox’. You can try out ideas, experiment with new beliefs, and explore potential opportunities.

My Story

“Our team engaged Brent to support us in the creation of a comprehensive compensation model for The Moment. He was masterful in his ability to facilitate intense and heartfelt conversations, eliciting deep insights and key design principles. With that insight, Brent coached the team to create work that we are proud of and that we believe gives us a competitive advantage when it comes to attracting and retaining amazing people for our organization.“

– Daniel Rose, Co-Founder, The Moment

“Brent is a professional and thoughtful coach. His coaching has allowed me to define my goals more clearly and take the steps necessary to achieve them. He understands the entrepreneurial mindset and motivators. Business is thriving!“

– Gurminder Kandola, Co-Founder, CTO Boost

Are you ready to scale?

You’re the expert in your industry. I’m the expert on how an entrepreneur becomes a CEO and how a group of people sitting around a kitchen table become a COMPANY.