As Director of our Strategic Business Planning Group, Bryan leads a team tasked with advising and guiding clients in shaping the long-term direction and scope of their organizations. He works with entrepreneurs and business leaders to define a vision for the future, identify goals and objectives, and establish a comprehensive, executable plan to achieve the stated vision.

Bryan’s experience in assisting a wide range of businesses with successfully expanding and flourishing gives him in-depth knowledge of growth strategies, building teams, accessing capital, international expansion, the use of strategic transactions and alliances, and entrepreneurial community building.

Over the course of a 38-year career with EY, Bryan held multiple leadership roles, culminating as EY Global Leader – Entrepreneurship. He led the EY Entrepreneur of the Year program, which operates in over 50 countries and is the world’s most prestigious business awards program for entrepreneurs. He was a major contributor to the development of the EY Velocity digital program and of the “EY 7 Drivers of Growth” business model. 

Bryan is the co-author of Daring to Compete (John Wiley & Sons, 2019) a book which identifies eight traits of successful entrepreneurs, details how to accelerate business growth, and outlines the importance of intuition in entrepreneurial decision making.

Bryan is a graduate of the Western University Ivey School of Business, and currently serves on the school’s Advisory Board. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of several high-growth private companies.