Clean Tech companies need smart efficient and fast growth strategies. Our philosophy is to get them joint venture partnerships with large companies that will gain market share by adopting a clean tech product and strategy. Here is a partial selection of the kinds of companies we helped grow. Have a clean tech company that needs more market leverage and is already revenue positive? Call us at 604-306-7707 to discuss where in the world we can help you grow to.

Clean Tech Case Studies

• Can an Alternative Energy Business be Built on a Nasty Waste Stream?
• Introducing New Consumer Products in a Highly Competitive Market
• Ocean Energy in Canada: Pathways to Commercialization
• Introducing Environmentally Smart Substitutes into Established Industrial Product Markets
• Greening a New Product in an Old Line Business
• Finding Joint Venture Partners/Buyers

Lorraine McGregor is the founder and a partner in Spirit West Management. With her partner and husband Rob McGregor, they have done pioneering work in how to grow a company. By focusing on the business as an interdependent system that founders or flourishes based on how well information flows amongst employees and leaders, they have achieved success for more than 100 clients since 1990.

Most consultants work in functional areas which reinforce the silo problem of us versus them that retards growth, performance and effectiveness. Lorraine looks at the company as a whole with many levers that need fine tuning, improving processes, exchange and strategy so the company achieves its goals. She and Rob use their Smart Team Toolbox which are the tools and techniques they developed to change how people think, lead and manage individually and in groups.

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.

As an Mergers & Acquisition specialist, she works with owners and shareholders to prepare their companies so they are actually saleable, worth their desired exit price 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 ?

• Giving a webinar for Community Banks on how to think like a buyer and make their bank more profitable and saleable. December 2011
• Co-author with Rob McGregor of the book and Playbook “Fast Track Secrets for Making Your Business Saleable” Published November 2011.
• Contributed to the development of “Secrets of the 1% Difference” an online training course and DVD on how to improve profitability through employee engagement.
• 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
• Developed www.MakeYourBusinessSaleable.com, the first online website to provide video based learning for how to prepare a company so it actually will attract a buyer.
• 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