Crafting A Permanent Legacy: A DuPont Engineer’s Leap Into Entrepreneurship

Hello everyone, this is Pete Worrell of Bigelow with another episode of the Positive Enterprise Value podcast. On this series we interview seasoned, successful, high-performing Entrepreneur Owner-Managers to discover from them a few of the breadcrumbs they have left along the way in the forest; a little bit like Hansel and Gretel as they traveled through the forest and ultimately, successfully navigated it. On this latest episode, my guest is Gary Mottershead. Gary is a good friend, coach, and entrepreneur who founded and is the current CEO of GCP Industrial Products in Ontario, where he imports sustainable industrial products for use in North America and all around the world. You'll hear Gary speak very openly and candidly about his path from being a chemical engineer, to his career at DuPont, to his becoming a nascent entrepreneur and then actually a real entrepreneur with skid marks on the road to show for it. And how? He dives into how he has navigated through the business over the past 35 years (that proverbial Hansel and Gretal forest), he's thought about issues like building the organization, how the personal and the professional journey are simultaneous, which then leads him to think through issues of leadership succession and perhaps even ownership succession. I have been wanting to have Gary as a guest for a long time and had a really fun time together exploring a variety of topics that even I hadn't expected. I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did.