Growing Family Businesses with Acquisitions – Ashleigh Walters

Growing Family Businesses with Acquisitions - Ashleigh Walters Damon Pistulka 46:45

In this, The Faces of Business, Ashleigh Walters, President, ONEX, talks about her approach to growing family businesses with acquisitions. Onex, Inc. is an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) owned business and is aggressively looking forward to expanding the business through mergers and acquisitions with complementary companies in their heat-intensive forging industry vertical.

Ashleigh gives credit to the business success to the manager-as-coach leadership style, which differs from the traditional command and control leadership seen in manufacturing. In her new book, “Leading with Grit and Grace,” she describes how they improved things at Onex, Inc., a 50-year-old family-owned manufacturing company.

Ashleigh is helping Onex thrive in the OEM Combustion and Refractory Services ecosystem through mergers and acquisitions while retaining its identity as a manufacturing organization and family cohesion.

Check out the Blog post here: Growing Family Businesses with Acquisitions

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