Transforming
​Family-Owned
Businesses​

Transforming
​Family-Owned
Businesses​

The Discovery Centre for Entrepreneurship (DCE) is a results-driven strategic consulting firm helping family businesses, like yours, to thrive. Our Systems Frameworks adapt to your situation to transform your way of doing business and leading teams.

The Discovery Centre for Entrepreneurship (DCE) is a results-driven strategic consulting firm helping family businesses, like yours, to thrive. Our Systems Frameworks adapt to your situation to transform your way of doing business and leading teams.

We specialize in working with…

Established Entrepreneur Driven and Family Businesses

What if your most challenging and overwhelming business issues were your access to growth? Improve team performance while boosting the value of your business.

We partner with…

Community-Based Economic Development Organizations

Our work with Family-Owned Businesses in multiple sectors across Canada gives us a unique and privileged understanding of the actual challenges in these networked communities.

“If you’ve owned your business for 20-40 years and have 10-150 employees, then NOW is the time to prepare. Most business owners find it a challenge to teach their managers to "think like owners," so they can hand over the reins with confidence. We help get you and your team ready for change and growth.”

What is Systems-Based Leadership?

Systems-based leadership is an approach to management that focuses on overall performance and making structural improvements to the business. We train leaders to listen to the heartbeat of their company to find systematic approaches to fixing problems and leading with confidence. By understanding the ways in which different departments, people, technology, and processes interact and impact one another, Systems-Based Leadership develops your team’s willingness and ability to identify and address structural weaknesses in the organization.  Trained systems-based leaders and their teams are able to balance short-term objectives with long-term strategic goals through strong communication, collaborative problem-solving and business systems design. Learning happens at your workplace, in real-time, on issues that matter to everyone—boosting your bottom line.

Ultimately, the goal of systems-based leadership is to create a more efficient, effective, and resilient organization that is better able to adapt and thrive in changing business environments and generational change.

Systems-Based Leaders:

How we apply Systems Thinking to your business

Discovery

Discovery

Getting to the source of what is happening in the business.

Alignment

Alignment

Collaboratively re-engineering the business and culture for optimal performance.

Action Framework

Action Framework

Engaging the whole team as co-creators in a dynamic process of experiential learning and systems improvement.

Action Sprint

Action Sprint

Applying the new systems, processes, ways of being, and measuring results.

Tangible results

The Book:

The Possibility Process is a groundbreaking guide to systems-thinking in the workplace. 

Developed with over thirty years of facilitation experience by Tana Plewes, MA, The Possibility Process is changing how business leaders solve problems, boost revenue, and ignite growth.

"[This book has] the capacity to transform not only businesses but the way we live our lives”

Curious if Systems-Based Leadership is right for you and your organization?

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Just because you want a specific outcome for your life or business doesn’t mean you’re actually ready to make it happen in reality. We have a self-assessment quiz to find out if this kind of work is suited for you

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