Get to your next stage, with numbers a lender will back.
Your CPA reports what happened; SGL builds what you decide next: the forecast, the margin view, the growth case and the lender package. For owner-led companies, and for the lenders, investors and boards behind them.
SGL for…
- Business ownersOwner-led companies: a growth plan, numbers that tie out, and a lender package. Fixed fee per stage.
- Banking teamsWhen a good client is not credit-ready yet: a file you can book. Readiness, not brokerage. No referral fees.
- Private equityFinance function build and capital readiness for portfolio companies, handed over to your in-house CFO.
- Boards & CEOsInterim CFO, finance transformation and special situations, when the finance seat has to carry more.
I’ve sat on every side of the credit table.
As the lender: Group CFO of a top-5 banking group, a credit committee member in several banks, and VP Finance at a top-5 Alberta credit union. As the borrower who arranged US$1.5B on international markets, and who financed a greenfield build in Alberta.
I’ve built, not only advised.
A bare field in Acme, Alberta in early 2024 became a working flour mill in July 2026. We financed the build and delivered it.
Institutional rigour, owner scale.
Group CFO of a top-5 banking group: a finance team built from 4 people to over 100, monthly reporting across up to 120 legal entities. Now the same discipline, sized for an owner-led company.
- 25+ years in finance
- Former CEO and Group CFO
- VP Finance, Bow Valley Credit Union
- US$1.5B raised on international markets
- Greenfield flour mill, financed and built
- Certified Management Consultant
- Director of Treasury, AmCham Canada West
- Board Member, CMC-Alberta
Start with a free 30-minute call.
We look at where the business is, where it wants to go, and what a lender or investor will question on the way. If it makes sense to continue, the first stage is a Diagnostic with a written roadmap you keep.
Fixed fee per stage, agreed in writing before work starts. References available on request.
Oleg Kostyuchok, CMC
Principal, Strategic Growth Leadership
No open-ended hourly billing. No lock-in.
oleg@strategicgrowthleadership.com
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