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One of our team players asked me a direct question once.
She wanted to know what Solpak's growth meant for her future.
Performance bonuses reward this year. Profit sharing rewards this quarter. Both matter. But neither answers the question a go...
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Solpak finaliste aux Mercuriades 2026
Solpak a été nommée finaliste aux Mercuriades 2026 dans la catégorie Entrepreneuriat – Repreneuriat. Il s’a loo git du concours d’affaires le plus prestigieux du Québec, organisé par la FCCQ.
C'est la troisième année consécutive...
See "Positive Talk Radio" podcast episode
Most entrepreneurs build a job and call it a business.
I did it too. For years, if I was not there, things slowed down. Not because the team was bad. Because the systems were not built to run without me.
That was the problem I decided to solve.
I sat dow...
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I was 18 years old in Ciudad Ojeda, working with my father.
I had run the numbers on a used car from Miami. Buy it there. Ship it to Maracaibo. Sell at a premium. Keep the spread.
Then I calculated the import tariff. Then I worked the timeline. Months, minimum, from...
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I was 18 years old standing on a sidewalk in Ciudad Ojeda, Venezuela, having just visited my fourth hardware store.
The price on steel rebar had changed. Again.
I thought they were all making the same mistake.
They weren’t.
My father had been operating in 30-35%...
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Built for Freedom is now part of the Forbes Business Council Executive Library.
I wrote it for founders who are working harder than anyone in their company — and still feel stuck.
The problem is rarely effort. It's people and processes.
Grateful for the recognition. M...
It started in a hospital
I have told this story before, but it bears repeating because it is the honest origin of Built for Freedom.
My wife Erica had just given birth. The extended family had descended. She had a forced smile. And my phone rang.
One of my largest clients had an equipment problem...
I have always believed in data
Not instinct. Not gut feeling. Data.
Instinct is useful when it is informed by years of pattern recognition. But it is not a substitute for measurement. I learned that the hard way early in Solpak's history, when I kept a team member in a role to...
The problem the method was built to solve
I started coaching entrepreneurs because I kept meeting the same person.
Different industries, different cities, different ages. But the same essential problem: a founder who had built something real, something that worked, and who was completely trapped b...
The call came at the right moment
I had been following the Montreal Economic Institute for years before I became involved with it.
The MEI is one of Canada's most credible free-market think tanks. Its researchers produce work that influences policy, shapes public debate, and defends the kind of ec...
I did not expect to be moved by it
I have been recognized by chambers of commerce, industry associations, and federal programs. I understand what recognition is and what it is not.
When members of Quebec's National Assembly acknowledged Solpak's contribution to the province's economy and manufactu...
Being asked to evaluate other people's work is a particular responsibility
When the MEQ, Quebec's Ministry of Economy and Innovation, invited me to serve as a judge for their Innovation Awards, I did not take it lightly.
Judging is the opposite of the work I usually do. Coaching is about drawing o...
