Grow the value of your business and live a more meaningful life.
I help leaders run their business on a proven system, and stick to it.
I’ve had an insatiable appetite for sports gear since I was a kid. When I was 12, I wanted top-of-the-line goalie equipment, and my dad wouldn’t buy it for me. Instead, he gave me a job in his mattress factory.
Since then, I’ve been involved in 15 businesses owned by my family. I’ve run companies, sat on boards, and when cash got tight, I didn’t get paid. I’ve experienced the full life-cycle of a business: sourcing deals, doing due diligence, managing the day-to-day, and the exit. Sometimes through a sale. Sometimes by shutting the business down.
I learned more from the businesses we shut down than the ones we sold. Every time, the difference came down to people: how they worked as a team, and whether they stayed focused on what mattered.
The business I’m best known for is KindHuman Bicycles. That’s where I discovered EOS® as a client. It helped me hand over all day-to-day operations to my leadership team and lead as owner.
Having implemented systems in many businesses over multiple decades, I’ve learned the system is the easy part. The hard part is getting people to change, and making it stick.
Today, as a Certified EOS Implementer, I help leaders of privately held companies build a business that runs well, is worth more, and gives them their life back.
My Approach
Proven Systems
Practical systems that clarify vision, drive traction, and empower healthy teamwork.
Grounded Experience
Asking the right questions and drawing out the answers teams already have. Grounded in years of running my own businesses, sitting on boards, and investing in others.
Behaviour Change
Kind and tough coaching that helps teams learn the system, make it their own, and make it stick.
The Roots of Leadership
Words matter. Business words often mean different things to different people. When this happens, tensions rise, progress stalls, and teams start pulling apart. Three words sit at the heart of leading a business, and each one requires something different. Being an owner, a director, and an operator taught me where one ends and the next begins.
Investor
From the Latin investire, to clothe.
To invest is to wrap something in what it needs to grow. As an owner, you’re not just putting money in. You’re giving the business what it needs to become what it could be.
Governance
From the French gouverner, to steer a ship.
Governance isn’t about rowing. It’s about setting the course, watching the horizon, and keeping the ship pointed where it needs to go.
Management
From the Italian maneggiare, to handle the reins of a horse.
Management is close to the ground. It’s the daily work of guiding a powerful thing with a steady hand, so it goes where you mean it to.
If you lead a business, you’re probably doing all three, often on the same day. It’s a lot to carry.
With a practical system and the right guide, you can do each one with more ease, so your business runs well, is worth more, and gives you your life back.
Leadership teams I've worked with
What my clients say...
“Gavin has helped us transform our organization. I highly recommend him to anyone looking to take their team to the next level.”
- Andrew Levy, CEO, Schwartz Reisman Centre and Prosserman JCC
“Gavin is a talented and gifted facilitator. He is authentic, passionate, and understands the dynamics of our unique team. I highly recommend Gavin."
- Jonathan Nyquist, CEO, Camp Canada
“Working with Gavin has been one of the greatest uses of our executive team's time over the past 8 years. We now feel empowered, focused and ready to conquer pancreatic cancer.”
- Michelle Capobianco, CEO, Pancreatic Cancer North America