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Growth Training

How I Help

You can’t know what you don’t know.

As the leader of a growing organization, the obstacles you’re not aware of are too big a liability to ignore.

These blind spots are expensive, and can lead to many issues like:

  • Unpredictable cash-flow or profitability.
  • Unattractive company culture.
  • Inconsistent practices and processes between departments or managers.
  • Working with me empowers you to accelerate profitable growth using a time-tested and results-driven methodology.

Working with me empowers you to accelerate profitable growth using a time-tested and results-driven methodology.

Using proven models, and my personal experience working in and with high growth companies, I help you implement a rhythm of strategic thinking and execution planning, so you can improve your organization, your bottom line and your enjoyment of your business.

Rick Holbrook is a Calgary based strategic planning trainer and coach certified with Gazelles International. Verne Harnish, Founder and CEO of Gazelles, an international executive education and coaching company wrote the award-winning book, Scaling Up. Gazelles and the books Scaling Up and Mastering the Rockefeller Habits are the basis of Growth Stratagems’ training principles and business philosophies.

Growth Training Courses

  • I hired Rick soon after I became President to help me get my team aligned and executing our top priorities. Previously we were inconsistent and lacked a common approach to operating and growing our business. 1 year later I'm pleased to say that, our managers know and are achieving their quarterly priorities, our cash flow and operating margins have improved, our culture is more positive and I'm more confident in our ability to achieve our goals. I'd recommend Rick to any business leader who wants to improve and grow their business.

    Jason Burke, President , Unified Systems Group

  • Shortly after I completed a leveraged management buyout and bought the company in 2013, I engaged Rick to help me execute our growth plans. Our team worked with Rick for 2 years from 2013 to 2015, and still follow and use many of the tools he taught us. We can attribute our 250% growth in revenue and EBITDA improvement from nil to 15%, during that 2 year period, to following the fundamentals he taught our leadership team. We still to this day use many of the lessons and exercises that Rick taught us in people and leadership development, top-grading, following the road map to executing our strategic plans and implementing actions to support our core values and core purpose. We should end 2018 at a revenue that is more than 8X our 2013 revenue and are on track to exceed $200 M in 2019 with a very healthy EBITDA. Again, it all started with the right strategy, executing that strategy with the right people aligned to our core purpose, all of which was set in motion by the coaching and lessons that our team had with Rick. I for one have benefited greatly personally and financially from Rick’s guidance, and I believe he could make a similar impact on other Entrepreneurs and business leaders.

    Justin Morin, Executive Chairman, Enercorp Sand Solutions

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Book a 30 minute discussion with Rick to assess your obstacles to growth.

Thinking Strategically

  • Seven Things That Ruin My Enthusiasm

    DEAR BOSS: You’ve been talking a lot about why you want us employees to be highly engaged. Likewise, you’ve received many suggestions on what you could start doing. Believe me, I want to be enthusiastic…

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  • Coaches Corner: Getting Employee Buy-In

    A business leader I know lamented to me that his last efforts to implement strategic planning failed. “We just didn’t get any buy-in; neither from our employees nor from some of our leaders. It ever…

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