SuccessionReady

Thanks to the BC Landscape and Nursery Association for the opportunity to speak at the Grow West Conference last week – and thanks to those nursery growers, landscape professionals, and retailers who attended. Some topics we discussed during our time together: • You’re thinking about a succession plan for your business – even though the actual transition from being at the helm of your company is not happening for quite some time. • You’re keen to involve those who helped to build your business to where it is today in the process for planning for the future. • You’re thinking about how to transition your business from orbiting around you as an individual to your firm as a lasting enterprise. • You’re engaging with your customers and clients to help identify your “secret sauce” to ensure it endures. If you’re interested in learning about how SuccessionReady can help serve as a sounding board and trusted advisor to think through and address these and other succession planning matters – reach out to us at [email protected]! #GWC2024 #successionready

Have a listen to Episode 4 of Season 4 of the SuccessionReady Podcast: Succession Planning for Farm Businesses. Elizabeth Robertson, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Farm Advisors, shares what she’s noticing about the needs of farmers and farm businesses from a succession planning perspective. Listen now: https://lnkd.in/dc3ZRSyk #successionreadypodcast #sucessionplanning #founders #entrepreneurs #farmbusinesses #CAFA

Be sure to check out Episode 3 of Season 4 of the SuccessionReady Podcast: Female Founders and Succession Planning. https://lnkd.in/dgTXaKDX James Grieve CMC, CCXP, CSP, CEPA, MBA and Ashka Wirk have a conversation with Danica Dutt CCS, the President of Kelowna Women In Business (KWIB), about her insights, experiences, and stories of female founders and their approaches to succession planning. #successionreadypodcast #sucessionplanning #founders #entrepreneurs #strategy #KWIB

Have a listen to Episode 2 of Season 4 of the SuccessionReady Podcast: Succession Planning and Legacy with our guest, Lee Vanderlaan of the Vanderlaan Family Office. Lee Vanderlaan, the CEO of the Vanderlaan Family Office, shares her story of the series of successions in her family business, as well as the set up of the Vanderlaan Family Office, whose purpose is to ensure the lasting impact, contributions, and achievements attributed by her family enterprise through generations. https://lnkd.in/dpGCF4p3 #successionreadypodcast #sucessionplanning #founders #entrepreneurs #strategy

Check out Episode 1 of Season 4 of the SuccessionReady Podcast! In this episode, SuccessionReady co-creators James Grieve CMC, CCXP, CSP, CEPA, MBA and Ashka Wirk discuss the insights they learned from economic development professionals about the challenges facing their communities regarding succession planning for local businesses during the SuccessionReady session at the 2024 BC Economic Summit, hosted by the BC Economic Development Association. https://lnkd.in/d-mnGEQw #successionreadypodcast #founders #entrepreneurs #BCEconomicSummit #BCEDA

Season 4 of the SuccessionReady Podcast is officially here! https://lnkd.in/gA__tdUP Hear from our expert guests on all things succession planning-related for founder-led businesses: Episode 1. Succession Planning for Economic Development In this episode, SuccessionReady co-creators James Grieve CMC, CCXP, CSP, CEPA, MBA and Ashka Wirk discuss the insights they learned from economic development professionals about the challenges facing their communities regarding succession planning for local businesses during the SuccessionReady session at the 2024 BC Economic Summit, hosted by the BC Economic Development Association. https://lnkd.in/d-mnGEQw Episode 2. Succession Planning and Legacy Lee Vanderlaan, the CEO of the Vanderlaan Family Office, shares her story of the series of successions in her family business, as well as the set up of the Vanderlaan Family Office, whose purpose is to ensure the lasting impact, contributions, and achievements attributed by her family enterprise through generations. https://lnkd.in/dJsd4BnR Episode 3. Female Founders and Succession Planning James Grieve CMC, CCXP, CSP, CEPA, MBA and Ashka Wirk have a conversation with Danica Dutt CCS, the President of Kelowna Women In Business (KWIB), about her insights, experiences, and stories of female founders and their approaches to succession planning. https://lnkd.in/dMygj9AY Episode 4. Succession Planning for Farm Businesses Elizabeth Robertson, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Farm Advisors, shares what she’s noticing about the needs of farmers and farm businesses from a succession planning perspective. https://lnkd.in/dJz8crMy #successionplanning #successionready #founders #strategy #entrepreneurs

Thank you to Kyle White, Director of Education at Co-operatives First for attending the SuccessionReady for Economic Development session at the recent BC Economic Summit, hosted by the BC Economic Development Association! Please reach out to James Grieve CMC, CCXP, CSP, CEPA, MBA or Ashka Wirk if you're a founder-led business interested in learning about succession planning for your business. #BCEDA #BCEconomicSummit #SuccessionReady

Thank you to Gail Scott, Community Economic Development Officer at the District of Sooke, for attending the SuccessionReady for Economic Development session at the recent BC Economic Summit, hosted by the BC Economic Development Association! Please reach out to James Grieve CMC, CCXP, CSP, CEPA, MBA or Ashka Wirk if you're a founder-led business interested in learning about succession planning for your business. #BCEDA #BCEconomicSummit #SuccessionReady

As the 2024 BC Economic Summit, hosted by the BC Economic Development Association, comes to end, here’s a few things we learned from economic development professionals about what they’re noticing about succession planning in their communities: • There is a real need to initiate conversations about succession planning for small businesses in small communities. • There is a need for a more proactive approach to succession planning. Currently business owners wait too long to address succession planning and this is negatively impacting continuity, and in some cases causing business closures. • There is a need for relevant and ‘right-sized’ succession planning support for small businesses in small communities. • There is an emerging challenge of talent and knowledge drain, particularly in smaller communities, which is hampering the continuity planning and succession of small businesses. • There is a need to engage youth in succeeding business owners. • There is a need for focus on fortifying the internalities (what we can control), vs. externalities (natural disasters) in communities to take a more proactive approach to succession and business continuity planning. • The epicenter of trust in small communities is with business support agencies such as: Community Futures, and Chambers of Commerce. If you’re interested in learning more about the SuccessionReady approach to succession planning for founder-led businesses, please reach out to Ashka Wirk or James Grieve CMC, CCXP, CSP, CEPA, MBA. #BCEDA24 #BCEcDevWeek #SuccessionReady

Thanks to everyone who attended our SuccessionReady session at the 2024 BC Economic Summit, hosted by the BC Economic Development Association! Watch out for an upcoming SuccessionReady podcast where Ashka Wirk and James Grieve CMC, CCXP, CSP, CEPA, MBA talk about what they learned from economic development professionals with respect to succession planning needs in their communities. #BCEDA24 #BCEcDevWeek #SuccessionReady