Phil Jewell
Founder
Impact Leadership & The Irrelevant Leader
*With 2+ Entrepreneurs
Halifax Convention Centre
Discover Actionable Growth & Transition Strategies from Top Entrepreneurs
Since 2015, the Business Transitions Forum has been guiding entrepreneurs through comprehensive growth strategies and ownership transitions, including opportunities for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to enhance shareholder value.
Join top entrepreneurs and North America’s leading experts to:
- Increase market share and shareholder value
- Identify growth and scaling opportunities
- Understand the acquisition and sale process
- Assess if M&A is the right growth path for your business
- Implement actionable strategies to elevate your business’s value at any stage in your transition journey
MAY 6, 2026 • Halifax Convention Centre
Introducing our 2026 Speakers
Explore the leaders and experts sharing insights on stage this year.
Dr. Lesley Steele
CEO & Founder
Steele Veterinary Group of Companies (Sold Eastern Passage Village Veterinary Hospital)
Paul LeBlanc
Founder & CEO
7th Wave Capital (Sold Coastal Communications, Arrivals+Departures & CMP Equipment)
Christina Rogers-Lunn
Investor & Controller, Best Kind Edibles Inc.
Former President & Owner (Sold Hearing Institute Atlantic)
Andrew Middleton
President
The Middleton Group
Steve Belyea
Co-Founder & CEO
Victory Advanced Technologies Inc. (Sold BASE Engineering)
May 6, 2026 • Halifax Convention Centre
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Hear From BTF Alumni
As a first-time attendee, BTF was the perfect starting point. The forum gave me a clear understanding of the landscape and how to prepare early.
BTF connected me with the right advisor at exactly the right time. That relationship directly led to a successful sale of my business in 2025.
BTF was my first real deep dive into business transition and growth pathways. The insights helped me think differently about value creation.
I wished I had of participated in something like this before we transacted.
BTF has been amazing, and I mean that. I have met so many great people here today, and I will absolutely be back. I love what you have done here today.
It’s a very welcoming conference, and a conference that anybody can just approach anybody and strike up a conversation.
I think BTF does a great job of really setting the tone of community, connection and really making sure entrepreneurs feel supported.
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Explore the Latest Articles from The BTF Insider
Attention Entrepreneurs: How Solid Is The Infrastructure Of Your Life?
You’ve started, grown, and possibly transitioned your business, but how are you doing? Business owners can understandably get deeply wrapped up in what they do as entrepreneurship, and leadership, is often tied to the metrics, passion, and, hopefully, success, of what had originally been just an idea.
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Strategically Growing Your Business For A Future Sale
Cheryl Zealand, Founder and CEO of Cranked Energy, based in Winnipeg, started her business as a personal thing. “I wanted wholesome, quality energy for myself and my family. The truth is that I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for. I wanted something that’s freshly made from quality ingredients and is full of energy and protein. I was also not willing to sacrifice taste—and neither were my kids!
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Every Path Is Different In A Business Transition
Today when someone refers to a tech startup, you may picture a young person sitting behind a computer writing code. But think again. After building and evolving her last business (FineLine Solutions) for more that 25 years, the time came in 2015 for Polly Craik to sell it to a much larger company that could take it to the next level.
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Who Is The Quarterback Of Your Business Transition?
The time may have come for you to start thinking about transitioning your business, so what’s next? What you might come to realize is that while you’re busy running your business, you find you’re in need of some to help guide the transition team down the field for the eventual score. Moreover, how big will that score be?
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Visualizing A Business Transition Is The First & Most Important Step
As a lawyer, Jenny Tran is well experienced in the area of mergers and acquisitions and serving as general counsel to privately held businesses. Tran, based in Newport Beach, California, is a partner with the firm Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth.
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Helping Businesses Transition
Businesses across North America are facing a huge transition these days and the coming years due to demographics as well as mergers and acquisitions. But this is nothing new – although it may be at a greater scale today. “It’s always been a state of transition and that can be for a variety of different reasons,” said Dana Rosenberg, Managing Partner/Co-Founder of CQL Capital, based in Manhattan Beach, California.
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