Independent Executive Advisory & Operating Firm
Empowering Growth
We work with private equity firms, owner-operated businesses, and industrial manufacturers that need leaders who have actually run businesses — and know the difference between driving results and just advising on them.
Who We Are
Encore Strategies is an independent executive advisory and operating firm. We work with private equity firms, owner-operated businesses, and industrial manufacturers at critical inflection points — whether that means deploying a seasoned operator into a leadership gap, driving a growth mandate, or guiding an ownership group through a business transition.
What sets us apart is simple: we have been in the seat. Our mandates are led by John Nesbitt, who has served as President, General Manager, and Co-Founder across multiple industrial platforms spanning steel, aluminum, insulation, and building products. He has built businesses from scratch, run multi-site manufacturing operations across Canada and the US, and successfully exited ventures he created.
We bring an operator's perspective to every engagement — not a consultant's framework. That means we understand what it takes to make payroll, manage a plant floor, close a customer, and build a team that performs under pressure. When we advise, it is grounded in experience. When we lead, we are accountable for results.
Through a network of specialist partners, Encore also supports ownership transition and business succession mandates — bringing that same operator's lens to processes that are too often led exclusively by financial and legal advisors.
What We Do
Encore Strategies deploys experienced operating leadership into complex, high-stakes mandates. We work best where operational clarity and executive credibility are non-negotiable — and where the gap between good advice and real execution actually matters.
Principal — John Nesbitt
Industry Focus
Exit Advisory & M&A
Most business sale processes are run exclusively by financial and legal advisors. Encore Strategies brings something different — an operator's perspective on value, readiness, and fit. We work with ownership groups who want to approach a transaction from a position of strength, not just compliance.
Every business owner will exit eventually. The question is whether it happens on their terms.
Whether you are actively considering a sale, beginning to think about succession, or simply want to understand what your business is worth and how to maximize that value — Encore Strategies offers a confidential, no-obligation conversation.
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Whether you are a PE firm with a portfolio leadership gap, a family business owner planning a transition or exit, or an executive search firm with a mandate in play — Encore Strategies brings operating experience, not just a résumé.