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Professional Management and Business Legacy with Joni Fedders (Ep. 39)

Professional Management and Business Legacy with Joni Fedders (Ep. 39)

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Are you ready to transform the way you run your business?

Today on the Finish Big Podcast,  Mark Doman introduces Joni Fedders, President of Aileron, and explores the unique nonprofit organization based in Dayton, Ohio. Together they explore how Aileron helps business owners and their teams embrace professional management to elevate their lives and organizations. Follow along to hear Joni’s passion for professional management, and how it empowers businesses and their owners to articulate a vision, align their organization towards it, and successfully navigate ownership transitions.

Joni discusses: 

  • The importance of having an exit plan and how it affects the future success of your business
  • Aileron’s DOC System of professional management and its impact on business success
  • The challenges of creating a thriving business and navigating transitions
  • How Aileron supports business owners in different ways to achieve long-term success
  • Aileron’s mission and involvement in the community
  • And more

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Joni Fedders is the President of Aileron, a nonprofit organization that helps business owners and their teams embrace professional management to elevate their people and organization. Joni directs strategic vision, culture, and operations, inspiring both the team and the community to elevate private businesses.

Recipient of the “Forty Under Forty” award, Joni holds a business bachelor’s from Miami University and an MBA from Xavier University. With her husband Jim, she values family time, her dogs, and enjoys skiing, tubing, running, fishing, sports, and vacations with their three children.

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From Growing Pains to Profit With Ron Nagy (Ep. 38)

From Growing Pains to Profit With Ron Nagy (Ep. 38)

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to scale a family business into a multi-location, multi-million dollar empire?

In the latest installment of the Finish Big Podcast, Mark Dorman talks with Ron Nagy, a successful second-generation business owner, about his journey of transforming a single-location body shop into a multi-location thriving enterprise, the challenges faced along the way, and the strategic decisions that led to their successful growth and eventual sale.

Ron discusses: 

  • How Nagy’s Auto Collision came to be and how it evolved over time
  • The challenges faced during the business’s expansion phase 
  • Market shifts and exit planning
  • Post-exit ventures
  • And more!

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Ron Nagy is a second-generation business owner. Ron served as the President of Nagy’s Collision Center before selling the business to Caliber Collision in 2019. Ron grew up in Doylestown, Ohio. He graduated from Chippewa High School in the Automotive Management Institute and has since won numerous chamber awards and industry awards. He has sat on many nonprofit boards and an industry advisory board. Ron is an active member in his church and in his spare time, helps his wife at their horse farm.

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Crafting Success Through Navigating Governance Challenges With Mike Catan (Ep. 33)

Crafting Success Through Navigating Governance Challenges With Mike Catan (Ep. 33)

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If you’re a business owner wrestling with the idea of passing the torch or expanding your family’s business footprint, take heart—you’re in good company.

In the latest edition of the Finish Big Podcast Mark Dorman talks with Mike Catan, the former CEO who propelled Pat Catan’s and Darice Incorporated from a humble family craft store to an impressive empire with 35 retail outlets and a comprehensive wholesale distribution network. Through Mike’s narrative, this episode explores the tactical execution of professional governance and the indispensable contributions of external advisors, equipping listeners with practical advice on future-proofing their business, promoting enduring success, and providing strategies for a successful exit. 

Mike Catan discusses: 

  • The early days and expansion of Pat Catan’s
  • Strategic decisions that led to the establishment of Darice Incorporated
  • Balancing family relationships while driving business expansion
  • The importance of professional management and strategic decision-making and having a strong governance structure in place
  • Having a well-defined exit strategy and preparedness for long-term planning
  • And more

 

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Mike Catan is the former CEO of Pat Catan’s and Darice Incorporated. Mike has been passionate about supporting not only his community but achievement centers for children for many years with a particular affinity for camp cheerful. Mike’s interests outside of business include his restaurant Square 22 in Strongsville, as well as multiple commercial and residential development projects under the umbrella of the Cameron Alley Group.

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