James Blase

James is a performance driven leader with over 25 years of management experience in Canada and in Europe. He has a strong background with SMEs and high-growth businesses, having run high growth businesses himself. He has consulted with numerous growing companies, first as a consulting partner at BDC and then through his own firm, Ablaze Consulting.

His experience includes taking companies into international markets, restructuring numerous companies’ operations to improve efficiency and consulting with dozens of businesses to drive growth. He works with clients to scale their businesses for growth and adapt their systems as they evolve using a practical hands-on approach. 

Expertise

If you find you’re fighting the same fires or that you’re not in control, I can help by:

  • Collaboratively developing a strategic roadmap with milestones to monitor your progress

  • Analyzing your business with actionable recommendations and support

  • Reorganizing business structure- set strong foundations

  • Developing and implementing systems to support growth

  • Mapping and optimizing business processes

  • Leadership support and coaching to keep you on track

Insights

I work with owners and management to scale companies as they grow. To keep your business running smoothly and profitably you need a clear direction for the team, repeatable processes and metrics to monitor your business health- this frees your time to work ON the business.