Family Business Atlantic
Propelling business forward
Ernst & Young
Speaking topics: assurance (audit), tax, transaction and advisory services
EY is the fourth largest public accounting firm in the world. They help companies across the globe identify and capitalize on business opportunities.
Barrington Wealth Partners
Barrington Wealth Partners is a well-established Canadian MGA, and the only national independent producer group in the country. Barrington enhances the capabilities of each and every one of its member firms with strong buying power, which allows them to provide access to most industry products and services.
Bara Management Group
Mary runs a property management and development company, with a passion for financial management. Speaking topics include building wealth and improving your net worth and financial money management
First Affiliated Family Office Group
Speaking Topics: family treasury, financial planning, legacy planning
We help clients figure out how to use their family’s resources in the best way possible to achieve the goals that are most important to them.
Stanhope Simpson Insurance
Stanhope Simpson is an independent and privately owned Atlantic Canadian family business We are proud to be an industry leader among insurance brokers in Atlantic Canada for commercial insurance and surety bonding solutions, with a strong focus on the construction, development and seafood industries.
McInnes Cooper
Speaking topics: income tax, corporate law & wills, estates & trust.
We are positioned to offer clients a range of legal services. We provide services in every major sector and have experience in all jurisdictions.
Blunden & Associates
We are a group of specialist consultants who focus on strategic management issues facing businesses and organizations. Areas of specialty include succession and strategic planning, conflict resolution, governance, Boards of Directors/Advisors and family councils.
BOYNECLARKE LLP
BOYNECLARKE LLP is a well-established firm is equipped to assist with everything from divorce and personal injury to government relations and complex business transactions, the firm can handle just about any case in-house.
ForwardFocus Consulting
We assist family businesses with family succession planning, assisting in developing an exit strategy while building a lasting legacy. We help with business coaching, strategic alignment, family mentoring, governance alternatives and creating effective family advisory boards.
Stonegate Private Counsel
Speaking Topics: wealth management
We provide you with a superior wealth advisory experience. Our distinctive offering is backed by the global resources of CI, one of the largest and most respected financial services firms in Canada.
Bay Street to Main Street Consulting
Maria helps to unite local businesses under one customer loyalty and rewards umbrella to engage consumers and reward them for shopping with and supporting locally-owned businesses. Speaking topics include how customer information can assist with business decisions; How a loyalty marketing system can help to rebuild our tourism industry through "Echo-tourism" and how to stay top of mind with customers and rise above competitors
Cluett Insurance
Cluett is family-owned & operated for over 40 years and is one of the largest independent insurance brokerages in Atlantic Canada. They offer commercial and residential insurance and can offer options for home/auto, commercial, life and benefits.
Stewart McKelvey
Speaking Topics: receivership & insolvency, class actions, commercial agreements, estates & trusts, intellectual property, labour & employment, litigation & alternative dispute resolution, mergers & acquisitions, pensions & benefits, securities, tax
Dunn & Associates
Dunn & Associates is an owner-operated public relations firm specializing in corporate communications, public affairs, media and stakeholder relations. The firm provides senior-level counsel, broad-based expertise, and a customized approach to achieve outstanding results for clients in the Atlantic provinces, the rest of Canada, and beyond.
Success Through Trust
We work with businesses to grow sales, become more profitable, and increase customer loyalty. Customers buy from people and companies they trust. Where there is no trust, there is no sale. Natalie helps companies increase sales through customer trust and loyalty.
Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP
Speaking Topics: business valuation, succession planning, preparing your business for sale, due diligence
Charlene specializes in the area of business valuation and assists owners with the purchase/sale of a business.
RGH Chartered Professional Accountants
Speaking Topics: finance, tax planning, and business management
We help organizations and individuals with ambitious goals. RGH’s advantage is more personalized accounting solutions that help accelerate your growth and prosperity.
Charcoal Marketing
Charcoal Marketing specializes in branding, web design & development, content & inbound marketing, marketing PR & campaign management. They are uniquely positioned to help with your e-commerce, web development and sales and marketing needs.
Community Foundation of Nova Scotia
Speaking Topics: philanthropy, planned giving, family foundations
We provide the knowledge and support for communities, charities, and citizens to realize their individual potential and collective possibilities.
Watermark Partners
Watermark Partners is a consulting firm dedicated to inspiring leaders and teams to build creative, transformative workplaces. Subject matter experts in business improvement solutions, large scale change, a family business succession plan and group and personal coaching.
Ingage HR
Speaking topics: hiring, policy, capacity, operations
I believe that HR can and should be fun! I thrive on developing HR capacity, solving people problems, and building high quality HR policies and practices that relieve stress and worry for you.
Dalhousie Centre for Family Business
The Centre strives to move family businesses to action that supports continuity and drives regional prosperity. The Centre reaches out to students in several ways, through an undergraduate and graduate level class, Managing the Family Enterprise, a family business case competition, the Norman Newman Case Writing Competition, sponsorship and coaching of a team to compete in the UVM Family Enterprise Case Competition in Vermont.
RBC Royal Bank
Speaking Topics: managing your finances, buying a home & investing
RBC provides personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis.
Baker Tilly
Speaking Topics: estate planning, business succession planning, general tax education
We provide clients with a full complement of professional services across every major industry sector.
Healing Tree Communication
Healing Tree specializes in general content creation and development including technical communications, e.g., online training, IT manuals, legal forms, documentation for apps, grant and finding applications, and mental-health content, such as program, event or in-house materials, general writing, editing and content creation.
Owens MacFadyen Group
Speaking Topics: HR, recruiting, employee attraction, retention and wellness
Christine works closely with business owners throughout Atlantic Canada on initiatives related to employee attraction, retention and wellness.
13 Factors for Business Growth
Speaking Topics: leadership communications, leadership and change, engagement and motivation, culture change, workplace trust, self awareness practice as a superpower, new market positioning, competitive advantage and strategic differentiation, productivity & more
Bank of Montreal
For the past seven years Scott has worked exclusively with businesses, the majority of which would be considered family owned and operated. He specialized in Share Purchases, Real Estate Transactions, Equipment Finance, Improving Cash Flow and Managing Deposits.
SBW Wealth Management & Employee Benefits
Speaking Topics: insurance planning, shareholder agreements, estate planning, retirement
SBW Wealth Management and Employee Benefits provides financial advice to business owners, professionals, and their families.
MacLeod Lorway Insurance
MacLeod Lorway offers all lines of insurance in nine communities across Nova Scotia. Their CEO is second generation and his three children are all active in the business.
Inspired Change Consulting
Inspired Change Consulting supports business leaders with practical Human Resource advice to solve challenging workplace issues. Genevieve can speak to a variety of HR issues and challenges.
Saint Mary's University Entrepreneurship Centre
Speaking Topics: market research, strategic planning
We create opportunities to connect students with businesses through training, mentorship, coaching and consulting activities.
Archway Insurance
As one of the largest independent insurance brokerages in Atlantic Canada, Archway has developed expertise in all areas of insurance. Our depth and breadth of knowledge, and choice of providers, enables us to meet all our clients’ insurance needs.
C-Level Executive Solutions LP
Speaking Topics: HR, leadership, marketing, export, IT, business development, strategic planning, finance, green technology, law, project management, information assurance management
BDC
BDC is a Crown corporation and national development bank wholly owned by the Government of Canada. offers a full spectrum of specialized financing, including venture capital, growth and business transition capital and growth equity.
Predictive Success Corporation
We work to establish a people strategy that supports business strategy. Our training programs give your people the skills they need to hire and onboard, engage employees, attract talent and manage change.
Peapell and Associates
Peapell & Associates is a wholly Nova Scotian family owned company. We are a full-service human resource consulting firm which provides a full range of human resource services. Permanent Staffing Made simple!
KPMG LLP
Speaker Topics: audit, tax, advisory
KPMG provides audit, tax, and advisory services to many of the top business, not for profit and government organizations in Canada. We work closely with our clients, helping them to manage risks and take advantage of opportunities.
MNP LLP
MNP provides a collaborative, cost-effective approach to doing business and personalized strategies to help organizations succeed across the country and around the world.
Digital nGenuity
Digital nGenuity help clients realize business benefits through the cost-effective use of technology. They support network managment, digital recording products, content managment, cloud services and consulting.
Wealth Creation Made Simple
Speaking topics: investment, asset management, retirement planning, tax strategies & risk management
TD Bank
Speaking Topics: banking, finance, valuation, investment, personal and commercial banking
TD Canada Trust offers a range of financial services and products to more than 10 million Canadian customers through more than 1,100 branches and 2,600 “Green Machine” ATMs.
Salvatore Insurance Brokers
As a local, family-owned business, we are invested in working closely with our clients to find the best for their businesses. Specializing in commercial trucking insurance in Atlantic Canada, Salvatore works to understand your needs in order to provide you the best insurance care.
Salyzyn & Associates
Salyzyn helps you eliminate your debt in the quickest and most efficient way possible by providing sound advice and assistance on managing debt. They address your financial questions and concerns, getting to know your financial situation in order to provide a custom solution that will allow you to pay off your debt in the shortest amount of time possible.
Next Sales & Marketing
Next Sales and Marketing Inc represents the industry's leading electrical manufacturers and their products throughout Atlantic Canada. They build a sales channel for your products by creating a demand through our customer network of Architects, Interior Designers, Home Builders, Electrical Engineers, Distributors, Contractors and Business Owners & Developers.
Symplicity Designs
Symplicity Designs guides and counsels organizations improve, innovate, and grow faster by helping clients make strategic choice, execute effectively, and lead change to engage employees.
Grant Thorton
Speaking topics: assurance (audit), tax, transaction and advisory services, cloud accounting
Our advisors work to obtain a deep understanding of what is important to you, your business, and your industry.
Strategy Up
We focus on information communication and technology to help improve operational efficiency. They provide solutions to leaders on their most critical issues and opportunities. Marc speaks on Generation Z to Baby boomers.
