Business Planning, Optimization & Training for Northern Entrepreneurs

We provide specialized business planning, optimization, and training services to first-time entrepreneurs and small business owners within the NWT and across Canada

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Expert Advisory Services
For Business Start-Up & Success

Value Advisory supports entrepreneurs and business owners within the NWT and across Canada with developing funding-ready business plans, optimizing their businesses, and building operational capacity through specialized business trainings and coaching sessions.
We are based in Yellowknife, NWT and understand the distinct realities of starting or running a business in the North. Our team of expert consultants work dedicatedly with entrepreneurs and business owners in the NWT and across Canada, to create strategic business roadmaps and achieve their business operational and financial goals.
Whether you are launching a new business, seeking funding to expand an existing one, or need help navigating the requirements, decisions, and pressures of running a business, Value Advisory is here to help you succeed!

Challenges Facing New & Growing Entrepreneurs

Problems We Love To Solve
Funding Challenges / Barriers

Securing business grants, loans, or investor capital requires more than just a good idea. Funders and lenders reject generic or poorly-written business plans that lack rigorous financial analysis, market validation, risk analysis, capable management structure, and strong operational plans.

Limited Business Knowledge

Many first-time entrepreneurs and business owners know their craft, product, or service but lack basic business knowledge in some areas including business structure, pricing, marketing, finance, operations, compliance, and other fundamentals needed to set-up and run a successful business.

Growth Stagnation

Most entrepreneurs and small business owners get trapped in day-to-day execution without making time to streamline their processes and actually grow their business. This increasingly leaves them feeling stressed and stuck, as the business cannot operate nor scale beyond their own availability.

Lack of Expert Guidance

Starting, running, and growing a business alone can sometimes lead to costly errors because it often involves taking critical decisions and actions. Business owners often express the need for a dedicated advisor to guide, answer questions, and help them navigate complex business challenges.

Need for Great Business Trainers

Entrepreneurs need the right knowledge, systems, processes, and strategies to start and grow their businesses. Meanwhile, Economic development organizations/officers often struggle to find experienced trainers to deliver practical, easy-to-understand business workshops and bootcamps.

Unclear Business Direction

Many first-time entrepreneurs have good ideas but struggle to turn them into viable and profitable businesses. Without an experienced business advisor to objectively challenge their idea, provide practical guidance, and help them stay accountable, they can struggle with execution and make costly mistakes.

How We Help

Our Service Pillars

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  • The Challenge: Writing a detailed and professional business plan for business grants, loans, investors, or economic development corporations can be overwhelming, especially for people who do not have the time or capacity to do so.
  • Our Approach: We handle the heavy lifting. We research market feasibility and competition, define your business model, develop your operating strategies, and build multi-year financial models to satisfy your business start-up and funding requirements.
  • What You Get:
    • Funding-Ready Business Plan Document.
    • Executive Pitch Deck/Summary for Funders & Investors.
    • 3-to-5-Year Financial Modelling & Projections (Costs, Revenue, Break-Even, P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow etc.).

Business Trainings / Workshops

  • The Challenge: Many new and existing business owners have strong knowledge of their product/service, but lack the requisite knowledge or capacity for business planning, marketing,sales,  operations, financial management, and sustainability.
  • Our Approach: We design and deliver practical training programs that equip entrepreneurs and business owners with the knowledge, tools, and skills they need to successfully start, manage, and grow their businesses.
  • Tangible Deliverables:
    • Customized trainings and workshops on entrepreneurship, business planning, operations, marketing, pricing, financial management, etc.
    • Actionable business guides & worksheets.

Business Optimization

  • The Challenge: As businesses grow, increasing manual tasks, paperwork, unorganized workflows, hidden costs, operational bottlenecks, and messy back-office administration can greatly decrease or limit business productivity, profitability, and growth.
  • Our Approach: We assess your current business structure, operations, workflows, and systems to identify friction points and opportunities for improvement. We further provide practical recommendations to increase your business efficiency, productivity, profitability, and growth.
  • What You Get:
    • Business Process & Performance Assessment.
    • Workflow Optimization, Systems Improvement, Profitability & Efficiency Recommendations.
    • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for specific business functions & tasks.

Business Coaching

  • The Challenge: Business owners often feel isolated making critical financial, operational, and strategic decisions without expert and objective advice, or accountability.
  • Our Approach: We provide 1-on-1 coaching sessions to help you analyze performance metrics, solve operational problems, set growth targets, and keep your business moving forward. During each session, we will review your financial numbers, evaluate progress toward your goals, work through immediate challenges, and outline action-steps for the next month.
  • What You Get:
    • Bi-Weekly Executive Coaching Sessions (1-on-1).
    • Monthly Financial Performance Review & Analysis.
    • Strategic Action Plans & Quarterly Milestone Tracking.
    • Direct Access for Strategic Advisory on critical or urgent business decisions.

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