Holt is focused on startups in Fintech i.e startups whose cash paying customers would be in financial services. There are 27 portfolio company investments in 10 countries. Holt Accelerator is supported by Holdun, a family office with over a century of investment experience. The Holdun Family Office is an award-winning multi-family office with branches in Canada, United States, and the Caribbean.

The following is link to the Holt Accelerator website:

https://holtxchange.com/

What is the value of a strategic advisor?

• Ensuring that the board of directors, CEO, and C-Suite are asking the right questions.
• Helping the board of directors, CEO, and C-Suite to think differently.
• Coaching leaders on how to fix their critical company wide issues.

You need a Strategic Advisor if:

• You recognize that you past experience, skills, and ways of thinking and making decisions my be of less value in today’s turbulent and rapidly changing world.
• You have a critical decision or problem that significantly impacts your company’s long-term value growth or value preservation. You may be unclear as to the core problem, which questions to ask, and what the solution could be.
• You are a leader (CEO, owner, board director, etc.).
• You are accountable for the results and require deep understanding, because you are the one who must present and explain your proposed actions.
• You will personally devote significant time to your issue.
• The decision or issue is new to you and your company or you have unsuccessfully addressed this in the past.
• You need someone to help you and your team think through what to do. You will meet with your advisor frequently, sometimes daily.
• You are willing to learn and try new things.
• You have either hired or met with traditional consultants, who have not been able to help you make your decision or solve your problem.
• You may need help selecting traditional consultants and in co-ordinating their actions.

You need a traditional consultant if:

• You are clear on what the problem is.
• You can delegate to others the preparation of recommendations for your review.
• You need an industry expert to tell you what others in the industry are doing or have been doing.
• You need a functional expert due to gaps with internal functional knowledge e.g. cybersecurity.
• You need someone who has done the same thing many times before e.g. install financial systems.
• You need outside people to help with large amounts of data collection and analysis.
• You will personally devote limited time to the issue.
• You believe that you personally do not need to transform yourself.

Tom is a Strategic Advisor.  Click here to contact Tom.

On Oct 30, 2019 I became a mentor at the Toronto gBETA program. gBETA is a program from the US based accelerator gener8tor. gBETA is a free, seven-week accelerator for early-stage companies with local roots. Each program is capped at five teams, and requires no fees and no equity. 

https://www.gbetastartups.com/toronto

gener8tor is a concierge platform for the creative economy that connects startups, entrepreneurs, artists, investors, universities and corporations. The gener8tor platform includes pre-accelerators, accelerators, corporate programming, conferences and fellowships focused on entrepreneurs, artists and musicians.

https://www.gener8tor.com/

I have added two published articles to my LinkedIn profile (www.linkedin.com/in/tomkoor)

“Why most businesses fail and how to buck the trend”, published in the Spring 2018 issue of Consult Magazine, put out by the Canadian Association of Management Consultants

http://www.cmc-canada.ca/consult/articles/all-topics/why-most-businesses-fail-and-how-to-buck-the-trend

“Managing the people aspects of supervisory change” published by The Toronto Centre in December 2016

http://res.torontocentre.org/guidedocs/Change%20Management%20FINAL.pdf

The Toronto Centre trains more than 1,000 government financial services regulators around the world each year. “Managing the people aspects of supervisory changes” is designed to help regulators understand how to use change management techniques.

My website has launched, with 11 one page points of view regarding long term value growth and preservation.  This includes topics such as: business transformation, mergers and acquisitions, and the role of governance in value growth.