Inside the Deal: Jonathan Dunn on Modern M&A and Meaningful Leadership
⚡ High-Stakes Leadership: The CEO Who Transformed Chaos into Clarity ⚡
Jonathan Dunn, CEO and Co-Owner of Initium Corporate Finance, has faced the highest-stakes decisions imaginable: leading through mergers, market chaos, and a pandemic that forced him to reduce a 150-person workforce.
In this episode, he shares what it actually takes to lead a company through radical transformation. This is a candid look at everything from navigating necessary layoffs to successfully building an employee-owned business that runs on total trust, transparency, and the structure of EOS®.
Jonathan proves that true leadership isn't about popularity—it’s about having purpose, clarity, and the courage to make the hard choice.
Inside this candid, high-impact conversation:
✨ How Jonathan turned massive change into lasting success—and why your core values are the only map in a crisis.
💡 What almost every Visionary CEO misses about financial clarity, and how closing that gap changes everything.
🤝 The power of employee ownership: How to build a business model that thrives on radical trust and transparency.
⚖️ Facing the fire: The lessons learned from the hardest leadership decision: navigating a significant workforce reduction.
📈 Sustaining transformation: Why EOS® is the strategic tool you need to cement major organizational change.
If you’re a CEO, founder, or anyone driving a company toward major growth or a future sale—stop what you’re doing and listen to this one!
🎧 Tune in now to hear how Jonathan leads with purpose and transforms chaos into success.
Podcast Guest:
◾ Jonathan Dunn — CEO and Co-Owner at Initium Corporate Finance | www.initium.com
◾ Hosted by Winter Paskins | www.shiftspotlight.com
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The Shift Spotlight Podcast is a GCE Strategic Consulting production.
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