Growing Leaders from Within | Rich Ashton

Podcast: The Grit to Growth Podcast · Levi Te Slaa

Opublikowano: 2026-07-24

How one business owner rebuilt a struggling company by developing leaders from within instead of selling out. How can a business owner step away without selling the company, sacrificing its culture, or leaving loyal employees behind? In this episode, Levi sits down with Rich Ashton, a longtime business owner who purchased a nearly bankrupt HVAC company in 1988 and rebuilt it into a successful residential and commercial operation. Rather than selling the business to private equity when it came time to step back, Rich focused on developing the employees already inside the company into...