Next Step Advisors
Using our proven 4-step methodology, we help families identify their goals and their challenges. Then we collaborate with you to create a customized action plan for ongoing advising and coaching to ensure your long-term business success and strengthened family relationships.
Family Advisory Services
Using our proven 4-step methodology, we help families identify their goals and their challenges. Then we collaborate with you to create a customized action plan for ongoing advising and coaching to ensure your long-term business success and strengthened family relationships.
Confidential Interviews
Share personal perspectives, goals and concerns during confidential one-on-one interviews.
PULSE® Report
Our summary will help you focus on what truly matters for you and your family.
Family Round Table
Develop open communications and create a shared vision.
Ongoing Advice
Regular meetings and individual coaching to ensure steady progress towards your goals.
What is the current health of your family enterprise?
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TAKE THE ASSESSMENTSpeaking Engagements & Workshops
David C. Bentall brings a lifetime of experience working in and with some of Canada’s most well-known family enterprises. His deep knowledge of succession planning, leadership development and conflict management provide the solid foundation for customized speaking engagements, workshops and seminars.
Executive Mentoring Experience
The Emotional Intelligence for Successors course is a comprehensive personal development program has been designed specifically for family enterprise successors which includes both owners and managers.
David C. Bentall
Next Step Advisors was founded by David C. Bentall to help family enterprises to overcome the challenges that often accompany management transitions and ownership succession. His expertise is rooted in empathy and understanding after spending more than two decades as an executive of one of Canada’s most prominent real estate and construction companies.
Executive Coaching & Mentoring
Next Step Advisors offers personal coaching and mentoring that is customized for family business successors. We collaborate with you to develop leadership development plans designed to help you to clarify and achieve your goals and dreams. Our coaches also help you assess where you are now and accelerate your progress towards your personal and professional objectives.
New Book
Dear Younger Me: What I wish I knew before the transition of the family business
Develop qualities and characteristics to be a collaborative member of a family enterprise.
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Resources
Family Business is Good Business
As the new year approaches, I was asked to predict what I saw ahead for the year. I stated: “I predict that this will be the year that Canadians begin to recognize that family business is the economic engine of our economy.” Allow me to explain why I believe this.
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