Steve Coleman

About Steve Coleman

Passionately committed to helping business owners explore options leading to transition…

Experience

1. Partner

   Platinum Group

   Jan 1999 — Present

   More than 1,400 companies have turned to Platinum Group to grow, thrive and transition their companies for over four decades.Platinum offers a confidential place for small, mid-sized and family business owners to share their dreams, challenges and struggles. We understand the stress and uncertainty of many business owners, which make it difficult to move while hesitant. My personal specialties include business advice, such as long-range business strategy, and transition planning, especially family owned businesses. I enjoy helping owners explore a destination for transition into a next stage of life, and then map out a pathway there. So many of them want to step down, but not stop making a contribution. Catalyzing that change is the most satisfying part of this work for me.Three common challenges that I help business owners to overcome include: transfer ownership to the next generation, deal effectively with the stress of growing a business and resolve family conflict.

Education

• UMN Carlson School of Management

  MBA, Finance

  1965 — 1968

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Marketing Strategy
• Financial Modeling
• Leadership Development
• Strategic Consulting
• Management Consulting
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Entrepreneurship
• Executive Management
• Program Management
• Business Planning
• Operations Management
• Strategic Planning
• Marketing
• Strategy
• Mergers
• Private Equity
• Contract Negotiation
• Start-Ups
• Small Business
• New Business Development
• Business Development
• Business Strategy
• Management
• Team Building
• Restructuring
• Coaching
• Strategic Partnerships
• Financial Analysis
• Leadership
• Organizational Development
• Executive Coaching
• Corporate Development
• Team Leadership
• Business Owner Sabbaticals
• Change Management
• Sales Management