Leadership Succession Models for Founders to Scale Impact and Sell Without Chaos with Bob Labbe

About this episode

Barrett Young interviews Bob Labbe about his experiences in building and selling air pollution control companies and his insights on leadership and entrepreneurship.

This GPT has already supported hundreds of multi-generational businesses through complex transitions, and I’ve translated that experience into a free Custom GPT available on our website. Explore it here: https://bit.ly/art-of-succession-our-GPT ------------------------------------------------ Want to be a guest on our podcast? Apply and share your expertise with our audience at https://www.podmatch.com/member/artofsuccession ------------------------------------------------ Welcome to The Art of Succession Podcast . Host Barrett Young, CPA , talks with Bob Labbe , Owner and Partner at The Ultimate Drink Coaster Co. LLC , serial entrepreneur, engineer, and inventor, about his decades of experience building and selling multiple air pollution control companies. Bob shares how he partnered with longtime collaborator John Halligan to grow businesses from small startups into successful companies that served industries across North America. He reflects on lessons from entrepreneurship, leadership partnerships, and selling businesses, including the importance of solving real problems for customers. Today, Bob continues creating solutions through new inventions, including the Ultimate…

People in this episode

Host: Barrett Young

Guest: Bob Labbe

Topics covered

• leadership succession
• entrepreneurship
• business growth
• air pollution control
• inventions
• customer solutions

Keywords

• leadership succession
• entrepreneurship
• business growth
• air pollution control
• inventions
• golf putting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Ultimate Drink Coaster Co. LLC

Books & works: book on improving golf putting

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