As CEO, it’s Lorraine’s job to develop our network, manage our outreach and seminars and work with key mergers and acquisitions partners. As a senior consultant Lorraine leads strategy, marketing and financial management to improve client performance so they can grow, sell or acquire companies.

Lorraine is also a senior management consultant and co-developer of the Smart Team Toolbox which is what we use to help people to learn how to change how they think, lead and manage.

Lorraine’s career has been devoted to helping organizations learn how to grow through becoming champion problem solvers for their customers.

As one of the first people to work in the Clean Tech space, Lorraine made a name for herself in the US as a business development specialist by helping get technology for water, wastewater treatment, alternative energy and other environmental solutions to market.

Lorraine has worked with more than 100 organizations to help prepare them for growth, repositioning products, customer development, joint venture partnerships and financial performance. As an Mergers & Acquisition specialist, she works with owners and shareholders to prepare their companies so they are actually saleable, worth their desired exit goals and to be attractive to target investors.

Lorraine is the former President of the Association for Corporate Growth, Vancouver Chapter the leading M&A authority in North America. She holds a Masters in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University, a Marketing Diploma from the BC Institute of Technology and Design Arts Diploma from Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology.

What’s Lorraine Been Doing Lately ?

• Wrote white paper for banks entitled “Is Your Business Saleable” which will be available in the Fall 2010 from business-friendly banks in North America
• Wrote two articles as a guest columnist for BC Business Magazine (Dec 2008) and Business in Vancouver (Nov 24, 2008)
• Guest lecturer at Simon Fraser University on how to grow a company with an exit strategy in mind and how to develop a marketing strategy to grow a software technology company.
• Elected President in 2008 of the Vancouver Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, www.ACG.org
• Will be completing a full length webinar and book on how to prepare a company so that it is saleable, at the desired price to the right acquirer which will be available in 2011.
• Joined the board of A W.I.S.H, A World Institute for a Sustainable Humanity www.AWISH.NET which fosters sustainability projects around the world

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As Chief Operations Officer, and President it’s Rob’s job to manage our engagements, ensure our clients get what they need, when they need it, take care of our valued associates and improve our own systems and processes.

Rob is a senior management consultant and co-developer of the Smart Team Toolbox which is what we use to help people to learn how to change how they think, lead and manage.

Rob’s career has been devoted to helping people grow as leaders, managers and followers.

As a former budget officer for the Government of Saskatchewan he grew this provincial ministry and then downsized it. He understands that financial management is critical to growth and most importantly, that leading growth means becoming a master at motivating and dealing with people.

Rob has served the military and health care institutions as a Chaplain, taught and coached conflict resolution at the Justice Institute of BC and led leadership teams on numerous strategy sessions on how to motivate teams and get people out of sticky situations.

He holds a Bachelor of Psychology degree of the University of Saskatchewan, a Masters in Divinity and a Certificate in Conflict Resolution.

What’s Rob Been Doing Lately:

• Wrote and submitted a paper that was accepted by the Gallup Leadership Institute for acceptance at the 2006 Washington DC Summit on Leadership.

• Followership Intelligence: Leading so Others Can Follow, was selected by the Gallup Leadership Institute and the University of Nebraska to be one of their international research projects.

• Co-authored a paper on Followership Intelligence which will be published in the summer of 2008 by a leading academic journa

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