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Orange County, California

The old adage, “ask the same questions, get the same answers” applies to every business owner and CEO.  If we aren’t asking our employees, customers, vendors and even advisors new questions, perhaps our dialog is stale and we’re not learning new things.  New questions that generate new dialog could lead to innovations in your product or service and enable long term growth of your company value.  If you think you might be a victim of stale dialog, think about new questions you can be asking.  Think about whether taking a new approach to your strategic planning as the catalyst to generating new dialog is best for your business.  In my career, I made sure that I used our strategic plan as a platform for generating new questions and new healthy, productive dialog!

San Diego, California

CA CEO Magazine (CA CEO) published the latest article by Larry O'Toole from his series Bank Your Moment.  This series and latest article are designed for company owners and CEO's looking to grow their long term company value.  This article (Click here to read article) identifies the difference between being aware of technological trends versus being prepared.  The article offers valuable insights and actionable steps that can be taken to be prepared for technology trends and enable the growth of company value.

Orange County, California

Business owners often have uncertainty around how to tackle effective strategic planning. Our advice...start with assessing your organization culture.  Don't jump in to strategic planning only to find out you don't have the right organization to effectively implement it.  There is an old expression, "culture eats strategy".  The first step in effective strategic planning is to assess your culture and its readiness to embrace the planning and implementation.  This is a great first step in growing your business worth!

Orange County, California

Ethos, a leading business networking organization invited Larry O'Toole to be their keynote speaker at their January event.  Larry presented an innovative approach to conducting strategic planning that helps faciliate more employee engagement.  The audience learned a new approach to strategic planning, including leaving the session with templates that can be used with any company to help increase confidence that strategic planning is enabling the growth of company value.

- Los Angeles

The Aerospace & Defense Forum today published the latest article by Yosemite Associates Founder & CEO, Larry O’Toole.

Mr. O’Toole’s article identifies the "silver tsunami" that is hitting the U.S. economy and asks why so many business owners are ill prepared.  The article points out that there are four types of business owners and offers actionable insights on steps each can take today to help their company be better positioned to one day have a euphoric outcome at time of an exit. Click here to view article.

Placentia, California

Technological trends and their impact on business value was the topic at two recent Vistage group workshops led by Larry O'Toole in Placentia, California on November 13th and another in Irvine, California on November 18th.  Larry shared his experience on moving a business from being aware of technology trends to being prepared by leveraging more effective strategic planning techniques.  He shared actionable insights and planning templates for participants to use in strategic planning with their teams in moving a business from awareness to preparedness and enabling enterprise value.

San Diego, California

USS Zumwalt Captain Scott Tait invited Larry O'Toole aboard the Navy's newest guided missile destroyer (see USS Zumwalt) to meet with the ship's officers to present and discuss emotional intelligence as a leadership enabler.  Larry provided practical and actionable insights on how to better engage with crew members through an effective application of emotional intelligence.

-Orange County, California

Larry O’Toole, Founder & CEO of Yosemite Associates, announced today the sponsorship of TeenZ On Board in support of its mission to “serve smiles to those who serve us”.

TeenZonboard.org is a philanthropic organization created by teens looking for ways to support crew members serving aboard United States Navy Zumwalt-class destroyers.

Mr. O’Toole announced this sponsorship by saying: “Yosemite Associates is impressed with the TeenZ On Board mission both in supporting U.S. Navy personnel in addition to encouraging teenagers involved looking to make a difference.”

-San Bernardino, California

1 Million Cups, a program of the Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation, today hosted Larry O’Toole as its keynote speaker on the topic of “Building Company Value, It’s Never Too Soon To Start” at its event in San Bernardino.

1 Million Cups is a national program focused on supporting early stage business owners.

Larry O’Toole, Founder & CEO Yosemite Associates, presented his Bank Your Moment^® campaign for building company worth, designed to help business owners of both early stage and mature companies on how to build effective strategic plans that will build long term company value for ownership.

-Los Angeles

Yosemite Associates announced that its Founder & CEO, Larry O’Toole was keynote speaker for the Loyola Marymount University 2019 Executive MBA class discussing his Bank Your Moment^® series topic, Emotional Intelligence: The X Factor in Building Company Worth.

Larry shared his insights with students on the topic of emotional intelligence being the X factor in developing and executing on strategic plans that build company worth. The session provided actionable advice on building an organization culture that helps a business owner accelerate long term company growth.

-Los Angeles

The Aerospace & Defense Forum today published a recent article by Yosemite Founder & CEO, Larry O'Toole.

Mr. O'Toole's article points out that for business owners there are different mindsets for preparing a business for future exit and offers advice as part of his Bank Your Moment^® series of articles and videos.

To view the article, click here

-Los Angeles

Ivan Rosenberg, CEO of the Aerospace & Defense Forum, a national organization for business executives serving the A&D industry, hosted Larry O’Toole as keynote speaker at its Century City event.

Mr. O’Toole, Founder & CEO Yosemite Associates, a strategic advisory firm, spoke of “Exit Planning That Optimizes Company Value”, presented his Bank Your Moment^® multi-step series, sharing insights on how proven campaign steps impact growth in business worth for business owners.

-San Diego

Dave Strobel, CEO of Space Micro, announced today at the company annual shareholder meeting the election of Mr. Larry O’Toole to the company Board of Directors.

Strobel commented, “Space Micro is honored to add Larry to our board of directors. His vast experience in mergers and acquisitions, combined with his strong management skills, provides Space Micro with another key resource to enable our continued success and growth.”

About Space Micro: Space Micro, Inc. is an engineering-driven enterprise focusing on technology advancement and product implementation for high reliability satellite electronics. To learn more, please see SpaceMicro.com