This is the team.
Not a department. Not a headcount. The team. Every single person who makes Solpak work.
I started this company alone. One person, one phone, one idea. Twenty years later, this is what it looks like. More than fifteen players who chose to be here. Who chose to build something together...
Keven Yvon and Michel Oliver Brazeau. My two partners.
Keven runs client relations and support. Michel runs business development and finance. Together, they run Solpak.
I did not find them on LinkedIn. I did not hire them from a competitor. I grew them. They grew themselves. They earned every inch of ...
DAY 12 OF 14 : THE WALL
Simple. Fiable. Compétent. Rapide. Amical.
Simple. Reliable. Competent. Fast. Friendly.
These five words are on the wall of our conference room. Not in a frame. Not in a handbook. On the wall.
Every person who walks into that room sees them. Every meeting starts with them in the ...
Les Mercuriades 2025. Employer of the Year finalist. Small and medium business category.
This year, we were nominated again. 2026 finalist for Entrepreneuriat/Repreneuriat. We do not know if we will win. That is not the point.
The point is that we are here at all.
Solpak. A packaging distributor from a...
SHERPA. Quebec plates. "Je me souviens."
I got this plate when I started writing the book in French. The word just fit. My car bore that plate for a few years until I moved. Then it landed on a shelf in my office.
A few weeks later, a mom at my kids' school came up to me. She told me I had stolen her ...
These books are not decoration.
Good to Great. Start with Why. Getting Things Done. The Goal. The Compound Effect. The Founder's Mentality. Tools of Titans. Disciplined Entrepreneurship. DotCom Secrets. And about sixty more.
Every one of them changed at least one decision I made at Solpak. Some change...
La Liste du Président. The President's List.
At the start of every year, I ask each person on the team the same question. What is one thing you would like to see happen this year?
Not what I think matters. What they think matters. Their names are right there next to their answers.
Then I figure out how...
This cork board has been on my wall for years.
Kolbe A Index results. Personality assessments. An energy list. A chart about emotions and behavior. A financial MO+ report. Notes I wrote to myself during hard seasons. Stickers my kids put there when they visited the office.
It looks like a mess. It is ...
Wanted. Reward: 9 USD.
Not even 9 Canadian. 9 USD. A wink at my dual country life.
My team made this. Put it on the wall behind my desk. I did not ask for it. I did not approve it. I just walked into my office one morning and there it was.
That is culture.
Not the poster. The fact that they felt comfort...
This is what twenty years looks like when you lay it out on a table.
An Oliver binder from our principal supplier. A Pelouze scale we used to weigh packaging samples. A faded Solpak hat from the early days. A handwritten sales order form. A document titled "Plan d'expansion vers l'ouest." A card from...
This is the credenza behind my desk.
Built for Freedom. La méthode Sherpa. A wedding photo. A cartoon of my family. A "Wanted" poster my team made of me. A chalkboard that says "Calm. Outcomes. Courage. Passion." Notes from my kids. A Nespresso machine. A Solpak mug.
Some founders keep their personal ...
This is where I work.
Two desks. A whiteboard. A cork board full of notes. A credenza covered in family photos and old artifacts. A green wall. Big windows.
It is not minimal. It is not aesthetic. It is functional.
Every object in this room passed the same test: does it help me think, decide, or rememb...
