We Work with You to Make Your Business More Durable and Resilient

We are embarking on a unique moment in history. Recent unexpected changes to the economy caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously impacted owners of small and medium-sized businesses. Economic pressures are rapidly mounting and many are struggling with understanding how to make their businesses more durable, resilient and relevant to face the new realities of our turbulent world.

Today’s business owners are facing an overwhelming challenge…choices that will ultimately affect their organization and their future. Now, more than ever, business owners require expert direction and support to make informed decisions.

Value Driver was created to provide much needed practical advice to help business owners build value in their business and make them more durable and resilient by optimizing the performance of people, strategy and systems.

We are a unique consulting practice offering fresh perspectives, a variety of value added services, and a unique implementation model. We not only advise, we take a vested interest in your business so that we can help you reach your objectives.

Our primary operating principles are grounded in the belief that business owners need trusted partners to work with them in their change efforts, and our experience and expertise incorporate proven approaches to deliver results.

We understand that we don’t have all the answers, but we have assembled a team of experts that can draw the solutions from your business and will collaborate with you to increase revenues, reduce costs, and mitigate risks.

We work with your team of professionals (accountants, lawyers, business brokers, bankers and/or financial planners) to aggregate their advice into a plan and then implement the plan to increase business value because that is our area of expertise, building business value

Value Driver is a comprehensive consulting practice dedicated to assisting with human resources, strategy, and sales. Whether looking to grow, exit or step back, let us help you build value in your business.

Professional Coaching and Qualified Advice from Trusted Advisors

James Grieve

STRATEGIC BUSINESS ADVISOR
CMC, CCXP, MBA

James Grieve has gained expertise in helping owners just like you. As a Certified Value Builder, James is an expert on building value and developing a plan for success using a systematic approach to measure and improve the value of a business. More than that, James is a skilled facilitator who can help you enable your business to thrive without you, enabling you to gain control back of your life or the growth and exit of your business.

James is an experienced leader, specializing in business strategy and transformation. Leveraging his knowledge of strategic planning, marketing, customer experience, and operations, he strikes the right balance between short-term improvement and long-term value to create and implement strategies that align businesses functions and drive performance. James works with our clients to set the tone, spur enthusiasm, and challenge current wisdom to refine and sustain successful businesses transformations over the long term.

Jame Healy

STRATEGIC BUSINESS ADVISOR
CMC, PMP

Jame Healy works with business owners and their teams to provide economic visibility and insight into their operations. Using a collaborative process, he helps our clients establish spend analysis, vendor engagement optimization, project/program portfolio costing, and integrated service planning (against predictive models for service demand).

With over 25 years of experience in advanced financial analytics and modeling, Jame has worked with many of the largest and most recognizable companies in the world with an emphasis on revenue, service margin, and earnings growth, accelerated mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, and service/product-line optimization. He leverages his knowledge of quantitative methods, combined with modern economic modeling to provide credible and evidence-based valuation for services/products, services-lines/product-lines, organizations, and even markets.

Jame accelerates value realization by applying his knowledge, experience, and expertise in advanced analytics, predictive models, and multi-dimensional/multi-factor modeling in several corporate services areas, including Human Resources, Supply Chain Management, Sales Operations, Marketing, and particularly within the complex world of Information and Technology.

Dustin Serviss

CFP CLU CHS | STRATEGIC BUSINESS ADVISOR

Dustin graduated with a diploma in Civil Engineering, risk management, efficiency and strategy are deep-rooted in his background. This experience provided the base for him to launch into the financial and business consulting field. Currently, a business owner himself involved in commercial real estate, partnerships and is stewarding over $100 million in networth for business owner clients in BC and Alberta. Dustin’s hands on experience is much more than textbook learning. He is a landlord and a tenant, he has a successful wealth management business operating for more than 13 years. He has stories and battle scars of his own, he understands staffing, projections, operations and where the blind spots lie for business owners. He is very well connected in the legal community as he is the trusted advisor to over 1100 lawyers and legal staff in BC. He holds a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation which is Canada’s premier wealth transfer and estate planning designation.

Mike Thompson

BEc (Hons.) FCMC FCIB | STRATEGIC BUSINESS ADVISOR

Mike is a tremendous asset to the Value Driver team. He has a passion for business transition and succession in the small and medium enterprise business sector. He has co-authored a book titled ‘Business Diagnostics’, that takes company owners through a pragmatic and effective ‘size-up’ process to gauge their corporate health, and he has developed a number of high impact seminars that have been delivered to business owners within Canada. He has also been actively involved in the Victoria technology community – formerly Director and Vice-Chair of the Vancouver Island Advanced Technology Centre (VIATeC), and a past Director and board member of the Innovation and Development Corporation at the University of Victoria. He has held senior management positions within commercial banking sectors in the U.K, Ontario, and British Columbia. His academic credentials include an Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Manchester and a Diploma in Land Economics from the University of British Columbia. Professional certifications include Fellow of Institute of Canadian Bankers (FICB) and Fellow Certified Management Consultant (FCMC). He has recently retired as Associate Professor, Management Consulting with the Faculty of Management at Royal Roads University, and holds a visiting professor appointment at the Graduate School of Business, Grenoble, France.

Myrna Selzler Park

STRATEGIC BUSINESS ADVISOR

Myrna Selzler Park is a lifelong entrepreneur who works with organizations and individuals to turn their passion into impact by applying her ‘people first’ vision.  Certified in Behaviour and Motivation Analysis, Emotional Intelligence, as well as being a Growth Curve Strategist and a Certified Value Builder advisor, Myrna brings both technical and practical skills to help her clients address their challenges using a people approach.

As a former successful business owner, Myrna uses her experience and vision to build value in organizations.  Myrna does this by providing insight and understanding into how and why people do things and ensuring that these results align with what they do.

Guy Auger

MBA | STRATEGIC BUSINESS ADVISOR

Guy is an experienced entrepreneur and senior manager with 30+ years experience in launching, funding and growing new ventures and mid-size businesses. His goal is simple, apply his skills and knowledge in a business environment to maximize growth. From launching his own businesses and securing funding for several other businesses, to appearing on the first season of Dragon’s Den, Guy has learned firsthand what it takes to successfully grow, secure investment and maximize the market value of a business. Now 30+ years later, Guy has extensive experience and knowledge in starting new ventures and growing established mid-size businesses. Guy enjoys applying this knowledge and experience in helping others grow their business. Specialities: Online Training, Business Launches, Growth Strategies, Value Maximization, Marketing, Customer loyalty (NPS & eNPS Deployment), Coaching, Investor Presentations and Public Speaking.

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