On Resilience with TVF's Tad Calahan

About this episode

Tad Calahan discusses TVF's resilience and adaptability in the face of various business challenges over the past year.

TVF President Tad Calahan returns to Empowered Owners to catch up on the year. Now in its 16th year of employee ownership, TVF has navigated significant headwinds including tariffs, soft demand, cost pressures, and the growing pains of implementing a new CRM while still ending the year strong. Tad explains why TVF takes pride in the ability to perform in good times and bad, including when the tariff landscape created cost management challenges, communication difficulties, and constant adaptation. Tad celebrates how the team stayed close to the details, advised across the company, and navigated it all while staying true to TVF's core value of being a trusted partner. He shares why employee ownership has been central to the company's resilience and looks ahead with optimism about the foundation TVF is building. He wraps up with his Winter Olympics Mount Rushmore: biathlon, skeleton, curling, and ice hockey. Edited by Mateusz Złakowski

People in this episode

Host: Empowered Owners

Guest: Tad Calahan

Topics covered

• resilience
• employee ownership
• business challenges
• cost management
• teamwork
• optimism

Keywords

• resilience
• employee ownership
• business challenges
• cost management
• CRM
• teamwork
• optimism

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Organizations: TVF

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