Philip Spensieri TAB-Certified Facilitator and Coach

Phil Spensieri is a Certified TAB Facilitator and Strategic Business Leadership Coach with over 35 years of management, operations and financial experience in both large organizations and entrepreneurial ventures.

Over the last 15 years has guided business owners and executives in York Region to design and implement strategies with sound, reachable growth and profitability goals. At times these strategies have included comprehensive succession plans and the development of next generation managers. Overriding motivation is to help clients succeed.

Specialties: Business coaching, peer advisory boards, strategic business leadership, business management, finance, mergers and acquisitions, exit strategies.

He assists York Region business owners and executives of privately held businesses to focus on the performance of their organizations and achieve the results they desire.

Phil has the highest retention rate of all TAB Boards in North America and provides advice and guidance to over 40 individual small business owners. He is always looking for new members to join his boards and see how TAB helps businesses see their real value.

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Doug Hohener

TAB-Certified Facilitator and Coach TAB York Region

Doug Hohener is a TAB-Certified Facilitator and Coach acting as the Contract Facilitator in York Region.

As the President and Founder of CreativeWorks Marketing, Doug has over 20 years of strategic marketing expertise and has created brands across a wide variety of verticals, from paint spray guns and animal travel companies, to colleges and multinationals. As the recipient of over 17 international awards for digital solutions, strategy, research and branding, Doug’s depth of experience is unrivalled.

A strong believer in getting to the root of a problem, rather than simply executing on a marketing solution, Doug pushes the envelope to expand and change the way we think about marketing. He created a 5-step Marketing Process, which takes companies on a journey that connects them with their unique brand story and then helps them make a purposeful and lasting mark on the audiences they serve.

Doug got involved as a TAB member over 7 years ago and can speak to the benefits of TAB on a first hand basis! He believes in the TAB business model so much that he decided to become certified and then launch his own TAB Board.

Doug facilitates one TAB Board and provides 1-on-1 coaching sessions as part of his TAB role to help business owners reach their goals. Connect with Doug at dhohener@creativeworksmarketing.ca or doug@tabyorkregion.com to find out how to get involved.

For the past fourteen years Phil Spensieri has provided me and the entire BIL team with sound business advice. Phil has a strong business sense and broad experience in all aspects of management. He is a trusted partner and has successfully helped our company solve many complex and difficult issues that we were facing. I consider Phil to be a tremendous asset to my company and I would recommend him to anyone without hesitation!!!

James Russell

Bata Innovation Lab MEMBER SINCE 2004

The Alternative Board has given me a great opportunity to voice my business issues in a confidential environment and receive constructive feedback that has helped me in many facets of my business. My greatest surprise is the benefit I get by just listening to the issues/concerns that the other board members have. It has resulted in changes to my business that otherwise would have never happened.

Ezio Traunero

Questor Financial MEMBER SINCE 2009

The TAB environment allows me to see many new potential opportunities to grow my business to a new level. Sharing ideas with owners from varied industries has given me a totally new perspective for my business, and you can’t put a dollar figure on that.

John Blair

Blair Technology Solutions Inc. MEMBER SINCE 2004

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