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Tracy is responsible for the development, leadership and management of the Maple Leaf Self Storage portfolio in Canada. In her role as Director, she has grown the real estate portfolio from five to twelve stores over the last seven years. Maple Leaf Self Storage is currently...
see moreTracy is responsible for the development, leadership and management of the Maple Leaf Self Storage portfolio in Canada. In her role as Director, she has grown the real estate portfolio from five to twelve stores over the last seven years. Maple Leaf Self Storage is currently one of the largest self storage companies in Western Canada with over 1.3 million square feet of real estate under management and over 14,000 tenants. Maple Leaf is Canadian owned and operated and has been assisting businesses and families with their storage needs for over 30 years.
Prior to joining Maple Leaf Self Storage in 2004, Tracy held a series of senior management positions with several national property management companies including Beutel Goodman Real Estate Group, Oxford Properties, ACM Properties and Bentall Property Management.
Presently, Tracy is a member of the Vancouver Board of Trade, the Burnaby Board of Trade, the Surrey Board of Trade and several other Chambers in the Greater Vancouver area. She is also a member of the Real Estate Institute of British Columbia and a lead volunteer with Dress For Success (+10 years).
Tracy attended Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia where she studied Finance and Urban Land Economics. She also holds her Real Property Administrator (RPA) designation from the Building Owners and Managers Institute.
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What We Do
First, we seek to understand you. As the leader of your business, it is no secret that you have innate skills that make you destined to lead.
Our goal is to reconnect you with your highest value and...
see more What We DoFirst, we seek to understand you. As the leader of your business, it is no secret that you have innate skills that make you destined to lead.
Our goal is to reconnect you with your highest value and skill, and help put all the parts in place to clear the road for your company to live up to your ambitions for it.
Our team helps yours find what it needs, whether it is more of the right kind of people, funding, succession planning or even a buyer. Your people are concerned everyday with the operation of your company. Our people work at a fast pace to institute changes and efficiencies to help your people succeed.
We have consulted to, invested in, bought and sold companies of all sizes. We specialize in helping companies in distress, but we have implemented growth practices that have doubled the size of previously successful companies as well.
Passion to solve the impossibleWhen something seems impossible from inside a company, we see it is a welcome challenge. Our team of qualified business professionals have seen and handled business transaction of all kinds, yet we approach each problem with a fresh perspective.
Because that is what you need, is it not? You are in need of a fresh perspective. You have vision in spades, and leadership skills that are not to be questioned. But you may also need some change agents to help you get to where you want to go. We are those agents of change.
How Do We Do It?These are not trade secrets, and we are not peddlers of rhetoric or hype, so here is the straight goods on our process. Our first step is to look carefully into three areas of the business:
- The ideas that drive the business. How can you innovate (and continue to) faster than your market?
- The management talent. Is there a balance of talent? Do they have what they need?
- The capital structure. Having the right capital and the right capital partners cannot be overstated.
- Predictable and balanced growth
- A more vibrant, energized company
- A several fold increase in valuation
- Reduction in risk exposures
- A more nimble organization, adept to change
- A self-sustaining company, more resilient to the unforeseen
Speed. The people we choose on our teams love to work at high rates of change. They have demonstrated the ability to communicate faster, execute faster and work well with existing teams.
Quantitatively, if a company is running at 15% growth, our people are comfortable at 30%, 100% and even higher rates of growth. What does that mean to you as the owner? It would be analogous to bolting a supercharger to the engine of your car. Get the idea?
