What We Do
Small Business Washington answers the two most important questions business owners have:
- “Where is this business taking me?”
- “Where do I want to end up?”
When you work with SBW, you learn how to run your business so your business doesn’t run you.
You build a strong foundation through targeted business strategic planning tailored to your company’s needs and your personal goals:
- driving your performance to its highest level
- building value in your company
- creating the life you want to live
You benefit from our combined business best practices because we can engage all your business strategic planning needs
within this ONE organization.
By engaging Small Business Washington, you will be able to predict the “what ifs” with our proven strategies, giving you
a powerful business edge, …anytime and in any economy.
Small Business Washington Consulting Services:
- Executive Skills Acceleration: Mentoring, Executive Coaching, Employee Coaching, Supply Chain Relationship Coaching, Team Building
- Money Management: Commercial & Personal Banking, Accounting/ Bookkeeping, Cost Control, Expansion Strategies, Purchase/Sale of Business
- Risk Management and Insurance: Property and Casualty, Liability, Life and Accident, Key Person, Disability, Medical Insurance
- Sales & Marketing: Accelerating Sales, Offline Marketing, Online Marketing, Sales Training, Sales Mentoring, Contracts and Agreements, Negotiation Skills Training
- Infrastructure Systems: Human Resources, Financial, Regulatory, Growth, Risk Strategies, Outsourcing, Seattle Consulting
- Information Technology: Communication Systems, Data Systems, Privacy and Security Systems
- Operations & Management: Vendor Relationships, Employee Relationships, Employee Benefits, Organization Behavior, Best Business Practices, Process Evolution, Environmental Management Systems
- Exit Strategy Planning: Exit Strategies, Business Brokering, Business Valuation, Business Strategic Planning, Legacy Protection
Who We Are: Executive Advisors
As a business owner, you never have to work alone, and wonder if you’re on the correct path. We build long-lasting relationships with you, and help you build long-lasting relationships with your customers and vendors. We are executive advisors and mentors highly skilled in strategic business planning. Our experience with business owners and larger organizations is rich in its depth and content.
AJ Van Wallendael, WMS, LLC
The Connector: Strategist And Visionary
“We rescue businesses from their owners, and owners from their businesses.”
Wealth Management Success, LLC is an Executive Business Advisory assisting clients with their strategic business planning. WMS, LLC evaluates clients’ needs and desires, and then coordinates the right team to assist clients to reach their dreams. A client’s most important investments are their business and their employees. Small Business Washington members collaboratively assist clients in protecting the accumulated assets generated from their businesses.
AJ Van Wallendael, CEO of WMS, LLC says, “Money is a tool. When clients learn to use it wisely, they become empowered. This enables them to be secure and adventurous in their investment decision-making, and they naturally start to ‘pay it forward’ by integrating best business practices into their day to day operations …”
Learn more about AJ at the IIB Associates blog.
Executive MBA; Leadership & Changing Organizational Behavior
Accredited Associate of the Institute for Independent Business
ISO14000 Lead Environmental Auditor; RAB Certified
LEED Accredited Professional
CCNH, PhD Candidate; Holistic Nutrition and Natural Health
Karen Hansen
Wyman & Associates *
Independent Insurance Agent & Registered Representative
“Plan today for tomorrow”
Small Business Washington clients worry less about tomorrow by taking the guessing out of today. Clients feel secure and trust Wyman as a key element of their business best practices because Wyman gets them the retirement they dream of by taking care of their businesses, their employees and themselves throughout the life of their businesses.
Clients are led through an in-depth conversation with Wyman who hears what will bring them peace of mind. They are provided with guidance on the best employee benefits package for their business strategic planning, such as 401K, Roth IRA, self employment plans (SEP), simple buy/sell, key person policies, and securities and benefits investments. Clients are empowered by Wyman to make the best choices about medical, disability and life insurance for their businesses AND themselves. Clients feel like Wyman’s only client because of the individual attention to details they receive from Wyman. Clients have unique, ready access to Wyman, anytime. Small Business Washington clients build long lasting relationships with Wyman-just what you need NOW to plan for tomorrow.
* Wyman is an associate of Trevcore Financial. Primary offices are in Washington, Idaho, and Texas. Call to inquire about other office locations and options.
BA, M. Ed. Administration, Superintendent, Credential
Independent Agent, Registered Representative – 6/63
Eric Breidenbach
Bridgeview Brokers
Business Brokers
Bridgeview Brokers was founded in 2002 to better serve the needs of mid-sized, privately held businesses. Small Business Washington clients benefit from Bridgeview’s 30 years of diverse business experience including new business start-ups, executive leadership, financial and process analysis, business acquisitions, mergers and divestitures. Clients develop business best practices with Bridgeview through their extensive technical and managerial experience across a wide range of industries and functional disciplines.
Bridgeview’s depth and breadth of knowledge gained in public and private companies, yields unmatched skill in the valuation, marketing and successful completion of business sales and purchases. Business owners in Washington State can include exit planning in their business strategic planning through Bridgeview’s global source of potential buyers – locating and buying businesses that match their abilities, interests and goals.
Bachelors Degree, Business Administration, Accounting concentration, University of Washington
Executive MBA, Southern Methodist University
Licensed Broker, Washington State
Rick Blythe
Touch Prospecting, LLC
“Finding the Right Customers”
Touch Prospecting specializes in high-touch lead generation and appointment setting campaigns for high return value, niche markets. Touch Prospecting focuses on providing their clients (one of whom is Small Business Washington) with marketing services that include but are not limited to high quality, unscripted telephone calls to senior corporate executives and business owners.
Rick Blythe launched Touch Prospecting 10 years ago as a solo lead-generation expert working the phones himself. This experience gave him the in-depth knowledge of his clients, their needs, and their target markets exhibited in Touch Prospecting services today. Touch Prospecting works with clients who are highly aware of how important key marketing strategies are as best business practices.
MBA, International Business,
Thunderbird, School of International Management
Ned Kurabi
International Banking Industry
Relationship Banking Consultant
Mr. Kurabi has worked in international banking and finance since the early 1980s. He managed banks and assets in Europe, Middle East and Asia. In Seattle, he started the international banking division of Key Bank. In 1992, Mr. Kurabi was voted into the Puget Sound’s Who’s Who in International Trade (a well known publication in the Seattle consulting and banking arena).
He builds banking relationships with businesses by utilizing financial best business practices and out-of-the-box thinking.
Small Business Washington benefits from Mr. Kurabi’s expertise in small and mid-market business banking and finance by being able to provide clients with a firm foundation in money management through his clear guidance and wisdom.
Post Graduate: Economics, Stanford University
Banking School:University of Washington
MBA; Finance, Golden Gate University
BA, MA, Public Administration, University Of California at Berkeley