Founded in 2015
We bring the structure of a Fortune 500 and keep the soul of a family diner.
Successful Smart Business Co.
The one-stop shop for business owners to receive coaching, hands-on support and intelligent technology, so they get their time and their clarity back.
Proudly Canadian
What we do
Why we exist
Small businesses hold their communities together. The people who run them deserve the same structure, support and tools as any large company, at a size that fits.
Where we are going
A coach in your corner, a team behind you, and one calm view of everything.
Every tool we offer began in our own business and our own family, then was refined with our clients. We are growing it into one place where any small business owner can lead with that kind of support.
If you would like to build that future with us, we would love to talk.
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Founder
Julia Katsivo Carter
Business owners are the real dreamers, and the truest investors in their local economies.
I am a Kenyan Canadian. I came to Canada at seventeen, and a few months after we arrived, in my first winter, I was knocking on doors selling energy contracts. That is where my business education in Canada began.
But like the dreamers who eventually end up owning their own businesses, I had been dabbling in what I loved and trying to turn it into income for as long as I can remember, with varying degrees of success, a ton of failures, and a lot more resilience and drive built up along the way. To me, to dream was to live, and to make money doing what you loved was the ultimate dream, especially if it left people better than you found them.
From there I built a career with Fortune 500 companies in sales, marketing and process development. Ten years after arriving, I joined the Canada Revenue Agency, where for seven years I worked with small businesses facing the issues that had landed them in the Agency's bad books. I saw the same patterns again and again, and I knew I could help most by leaving to start my own speaking and coaching company.
That company helps owners master mindset and marketing, and adopt the systems and structure a growing business needs. Running a small business myself, I lived what my clients were living, and it sharpened my approach. It also let me lean fully into what comes naturally to me: lean, clean, organized, structured and beautiful.
Speaking and coaching led to invitations to provide done-for-you services, and then to build the digital infrastructure that supports the growing owner whose time is already stretched, even as they want growth and more time with family and friends.
At the heart of it all is a desire to use my God-given gifts, talents and time to love on business owners. As new needs surface and new opportunities arise, Successful Smart Business Co. keeps growing, creating and giving.
I am married to a successful business owner who shares my heart for people and business, and we are blessed with two amazing boys, and our faithful furry family member. We call ourselves #TeamCarter.
Female-founded · Systems-minded · Lake Country, Ontario