Successful businesses become complex.
Working with you, we help you and your team find where to apply leverage, so the business becomes easier to lead, more profitable and more valuable.
We Work With Successful Owners Who Want the Business to Work Better
Who We Work With
Founders, owners, C-Suite leaders and their management teams who want a fresh perspective on how to create more value, more returns and make the business easier to manage.
More than 300 Founders across most industries have worked with us when they knew they didn’t wan’t to face the same situation again next year.
How We Help
We get in the room with the people who know the business, make the complexity visible, connect things you have been looking at separately, and help you decide what matters most.
What do you want to able to do then that you can’t do now?
This question keeps the work focused on results, keeping more of every dollar the company earns while continuing to deliver the value customers need
What Situations Are You Noticing?
Growth Making Managing Hard? Is Growth Stalled?
Our Red Flag Framework uncovers the root causes. Then together we define what would restore growth and make alignment, reporting and workflow so much easier.
Revenue Up, Bank Account Down?
Our Framework reveals the 5 areas that shrink returns and threaten cash flow. Together we pinpoint which of the 5 are causing your headaches. And offer 9 solutions to increase gross margin and profit margin by at least 2% and more, resulting in immediate gains with long term value enhancement.
Leadership Consumed With People Problems?
Your team is your talent bank. Their uniqueness is valuable when you can manage to their strengths and differences. We show you who has what talent and how to bring out their best + navigate blind spots.
Want More Freedom & Options From the Business?
Return on investment comes in many forms. We help you name the ROI you want. Then work with your team to deliver that result. You earn more freedom, work to your strengths, receive reliable dividends today, and if desired, a saleable business that attracts your ideal buyer so you can sell when you want for what you want.
Most owners can’t describe their ROI goals and then don’t act early enough to earn reliable returns.
Our Decision Road Map helps you choose which path makes sense for you.
How We Find Leverage for Growth
Complaints Are Data. We Read It Differently. We Hear Opportunity
We Turn Hidden Complaints Into Leverage Points.
Regain leverage with your team while increasing profitability, capacity & enterprise value.
Client Stories – Real Businesses. Real Constraints. Real Leverage.
Latest Conversations
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Growth Needs Operating Systems – Where Growth Stalls Podcast
Are you solving the right problem from the customer’s perspective? Surprisingly, this is a major blind spot for many companies. We talk to Jason So, Fractional CMO discovers the truth.
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Stop Competing on Price – OneAccord Value Collective Podcast
To grow a business has to carve out a small highly unique niche rather than focus on the competition. Listen to Andrew Ballard from OneAccord interview Lorraine McGregor
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Financial Blind Spots Stalling Growth – Where Growth Stalls Podcast
What’s the role of the CFO? The best work across the organization, not just report the numbers. Alignment is key to growth. Listen to Jeffrey Kishner’s interview.
Where Does Your Business Need More Hidden Leverage?
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Why Spirit West Management
For more than three decades, we have worked alongside owners, shareholders, and management teams as they navigate growth, complexity, transition, and value creation to find hidden leverage.
We are business growth consultants. Since 1990, across hundreds of companies, in most industries, certain patterns appear repeatedly.
Growth creates new demands on leadership. Decision-making becomes more complex. Accountability requires greater clarity.
The business reaches a point where experience, effort, and good intentions are no longer enough to produce the desired results.
This complexity creates its own set of challenges, like what problem to solve and where to focus first to find leverage.
Our work helps leaders identify the leverage points that influence profitability, leadership capacity, business value, and future options.
Over time, those focused improvements compound into stronger performance, greater resilience, and a business that is easier to grow, lead, acquire and eventually transition.
Now that’s a return on investment
Latest Insights
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Where Do You Look First When Growth Plateaus?
When Growth Stalls, Where Do You Look First? Growth has plateaued. Less than hoped. Not delivering to expectations. Now what? You start asking questions. The sales team thinks marketing isn’t generating enough…
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Return on Investment from Business Ownership
Earning a Return From Your Business They weren’t trying to sell. We prepared them anyway We were at a wine tasting event for business owners. Lots of energy, lots of capable, ambitious…
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Strategic Action Not Just a Plan
Why Strategic Plans Often Miss the Mark Take a serious minute to look at the image above. That’s the typical organization at work. On the left is what is intended from the…
Imagine What’s Possible
By finding your leverage point together, your team knows how to shoulder the right load with you.
Over time, a stronger business creates something even more valuable:
Options
Options to invest, grow, develop future leaders, reward shareholders, step back from day-to-day operations, transition ownership, or sell when the timing is right.
Options Create Freedom
Options generate multiple ways to win a return on investment from all you have built.
Leverage Point Intensive
Focused two-hour working session
Follow-up Leverage Point Brief
Investment
CAD $ 2,000
Let’s Connect
We work across North America, Europe and the Caribbean from Vancouver, BC
We have strategic partnerships in the US, Canada and Europe