Growth Associates
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Shortly About Us

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SME’s) make up 97% of Canadian businesses and 56% of all Canadians employed. Our country’s economic growth and overall wellbeing are very much dependent upon the health and success of independent, self-employed entrepreneurs. Growth Associates* through its founder, Verne Milot, holds firmly to the belief that a meaningful contribution to the success of courageous business owners and entrepreneurs will result in a lasting benefit to all: “Canada’s future can be very much measured one entrepreneur at a time. What better way to make a difference than by impacting the success of Canada’s SME’s.”

About Verne Milot

Verne Milot
Verne is an experienced and highly successful business development professional with an employment background ranging from large multinational corporations to start-ups and small business. He has worked for and successfully developed business enterprises with: Dofasco, Noranda Group, CAE, Laidlaw, John Labatt Ltd and Robert Bosch Corp. Furthermore, he has carried out strategic start-ups and assisted private companies in a number of key product sectors.

In addition to receiving an Ivey MBA from the University of Western Ontario, Verne is a registered P.Eng with a BASc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Past appointments include:

• Director of Bosch Rexroth Canada
• Director of the Canadian Foundry Association
• Vice Chairman of the Welland Development Commission
• City Ambassador to both Welland and Burlington
• Executive Committee member of the Ivey Alumni Association, and,
• Present member of the University of Western Ontario, IAA Board of Directors.

Verne is a licensed business coach and founding member of the Professional Business Coaches Alliance. This latter group is dedicated to the professional and ethical advancement of the business coaching profession throughout the world.

Raised in the Niagara area, he is married 33 years, with two independent daughters. Verne has resided with his wife Patricia in Fonthill, Ontario, since 1986.