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We work with leaders like you that are open to change, are avid learners & recognize they can achieve more with some external guidance and advise. Clients that systematically used our methodologies make more profit and have won more awards than most other small and medium businesses. Our simple, proven and systematized approaches give business leaders around the world the right steps to Scale Up their companies, resulting more time to plan the future, better teams, and most importantly – Profitable & Sustainable Growth.

 

For Juan, coaching is different than consulting in that, as a coach, he focuses on developing / enhancing the person’s or team’s management skills as they apply to their company. This includes teaching them the fine points required for a successful implementation of the Scaling Up and/or 3HAG process and many other methodologies.

 

Business owners, CEOs and their leadership teams are mentored by Juan to find their own solutions to address their management and operational challenges. This makes the relationship often last for several years.

 

In comparison, consultants, who are usually specialists in a given area (e.g. Marketing, IT, HR, Processes, etc.), will most often focus on improving specific business aspects or issues of a company. The relationship usually ends once a recommendation and solution have been provided.

 

Juan Folch was an ActionCOACH certified Master Coach from 2003 to 2020, the highest level of experts who train other business coaches. In addition to his many business clients, Juan has trained coaches across North America, South America, Africa and Europe, as he is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

 

As an entrepreneur, Juan owns 2 other businesses besides BCS and maintains his commercial pilot license, occasionally flying for Hope Air, transporting persons to or from remote Ontario areas who require treatment at Toronto area hospitals.

Juan S. Folch

Certified Master, Executive and Business Coach

 

Prior to starting his own practice as a Business and Executive Coach in 2003 (BCS – Business Coaching Solutions Corp.), Juan, trained initially as an engineer, worked worldwide for over 30 years in the construction materials industry, based in Canada, mostly for a Swiss Fortune 500 International.  The last 17 years there, Vice-president of Corporate Marketing Services (a profit center within the organization), where his and his team’s responsibilities were to coach senior executives as well as front line teams around the world, in Transaction Cost Management (TPM), marketing strategies and sales.

 

Today Juan coaches just a few SME companies both in Canada and abroad (Brazil, France and Mexico).

 

The following is a sample list of the very diverse range of clients, small and medium size companies, he has worked with and/or is still working with since he started BCS in 2003:

  • Retail Florist Owners
  • Industrial molds manufacturer for the Auto industry
  • Retail tiles chain CEO and leadership team
  • A large transport & logistics company CEO & his leadership team
  • Industrial Door installations contractor
  • Private Montessori School (as a subcontracted consultant for BDC)
  • IT support company CEO and Executive team
  • CEO of a large private education institution (>3000 students)
  • Electrical Contractor President
  • Pro bono coaching work for CYBF/Futurpreneur Organization
  • Medium-sized manufacturer of industrial seals (Partners)
  • Therapeutic Massage Company Owner
  • Software development CEO & Executive team
  • CEO & Team of a speciality food manufacturer
  • Gluten-free products International Distributor (CEO and Executive team)
  • A change management international consultant
  • International Marketing Company CEO & Executive team
  • M&A Brokerage organization CEO & team
  • Franchise founders/owners & his franchisees.
  • Health care and chiropractic center
  • Mentoring & developing other business coaches
  • A high-end, specialty food manufacturer

Although a well-rounded executive and coach, Juan’s strengths are in:

 

  • Strategy development for growth
  • Development of Management Process systems
  • Able to work very effectively both at the top management level as well at the front line level
  • Marketing
  • General Management

 

Mostly, our clients benefit from what Mark Twain would call the sum of his mistakes… i.e. Juan’s vast experience (we all learn more from our mistakes than from our successes…)

 

Juan also fulfills one of the most important roles of a coach:  keeping business Owners, CEOs/Presidents and other executives accountable to fulfill their own decisions in the time frame they agree to do.

 

Juan draws on the learnings acquired when initially certified as an ActionCOACH and now as a Scaling Up certified coach (previously known as GICoaches), and as a 3HAG WAY- Metronomics coach, but also on his very diverse cultural background and professional career. To keep abreast of a very fast-changing business environment, he is also committed to continuous training, which he does every year (a minimum of 70 to 90 hours per year).

 

With degrees & Master in Engineering (Swiss Federal Polytechnical University), Strategic Marketing Program (Harvard Business School) and Business Management Program for Executives (University of Pittsburgh), he has worked on plant and process engineering, been the project manager of several large industrial projects (over $300 million), director of international business development, trainer with his team of over 800 sales persons, manager of an IT group developing a knowledge database software and as VP, involved in corporate strategic marketing planning of affiliate companies of the Swiss multinational Group he worked for.

 

Through his successful careers in both the corporate environment and as an entrepreneur (Juan owns three companies) he has also learned what it takes to run successful small and large businesses and has developed a passion for sharing this expertise through coaching and mentoring.