Experience

Robbinex Inc.

• Canada
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director & Consultant

  • Dec 2017 - Present

  Linda Fairburn is a Managing Director at Robbinex and assists business owners in developing and implementing their transition strategies. When Linda engages with clients she brings professional and personal experience to the transition process. As an entrepreneur, business founder and past client of Robbinex becoming a Managing Director was a natural fit. When she had partnership problems — Robbinex solved them. Later when she decided to change careers — Robbinex sold her business. Before joining Robbinex Linda developed a solid track record in providing business transition services, especially Family Business Consulting. With first-hand experience she’s partnered with 100s of founders, families, partners, CEOs and Boards of Directors to provide the right mix of skills required to successfully complete the often-challenging process of exiting right. Linda’s consulting practice has taken her to China, India, Nepal and North America and included teaching human resource professionals in the Masters Certificate in Adult Training and Development programs (1999-2014) at the University of Toronto, OISE and York University, Schulich School of Business. Her best-selling Exit Right® Series includes: • Exit Right®: A Guided Tour of Succession Planning for Families-in-Business-Together (Buy the Book http://www.makethingshappen.net/family-business-succession/exit-right-a-guided-tour-of-succession-planning-for-families-in-business-together • Exit Right®: Integrated Succession Planning • Exit Right®: Emergency Leadership Planning • Exit Right®: Succession Planning for Staff Positions Show less



Make Things Happen Limited

• Canada
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President

  • Jan 1991 - Present

  Make Things Happen Limited is a management consultancy devoted to succession planning and leadership transition for family businesses, nonprofit and charitable corporations accomplished through organization development consulting, facilitation and training. Make Things Happen specializes in the human side of enterprises where succession planning is not always as simple as developing a talent pool and promoting from within. These unique situations call for integrated approaches to change management, leadership development, strategy implementation, assessment, remedial team building, conflict resolution and interpersonal skills development. Our primary clients are founders, families, partners, boards of directors and their chief executive officers, chief operating officers and executive directors where succession- planning issues are the primary concern. Show less