by Deborah Steinthal | Mar 3, 2021 | blog, COVID-19, Go-to-market planning, Growth planning, Leadership, Organization Strategy, Updates
Deborah Steinthal, Managing Director I Scion Advisors I McMinnville, Oregon This is a follow up to my May 2020 article, ‘How COVID-19 is making ‘warriors’ out of wine entrepreneurs’. I wrote how the events of 2020 ‘would make warriors out of Northwest wine and...
by Deborah Steinthal | May 6, 2020 | blog, COVID-19, Go-to-market planning, Growth planning, Leadership, Updates
Author – Deborah Steinthal, Managing Director I Scion Advisors I McMinnville, Oregon COVID-19’s toll on the wine industry is substantial, with potential long-term consequences. Everyone’s context has been scrambled. Things are super fluid. It is impossible to...
by Deborah Steinthal | Oct 9, 2019 | Leadership, Organization Strategy
For the last three years, I have been coaching a wicked-smart, millennial winemaker and G2 winery owner – let’s call him Mark to give him a face. Lately, Mark and I have been working on how to build effective teams during high-stress, high-change periods, such as this...
by Deborah Steinthal | Mar 6, 2019 | blog, Growth planning, Leadership, Organization Strategy, Updates
Strategic leadership consists not only of the vision element, but also encompasses other wide-ranging factors. These 17 points from successful CEOs, offer winery leaders a powerful place to start exploring strategic leadership, deepen their practice – to...
by Deborah Steinthal | Aug 24, 2018 | blog, Growth planning, Leadership, Organization Strategy
U.S. Wine industry CEOs are at the epicenter of persistent and rapid change, and many feel like Don Quixote fighting windmills. So many big questions are being debated right now, mainly – How to manage through …: ‘incessant consolidation in distribution’;...
by Deborah Steinthal | Aug 30, 2017 | blog, Exit Planning, Growth planning, Leadership
As the U.S. wine industry matures, increasingly large numbers of winery owners are retiring[1] and are seeking to sell their businesses to third parties or to their children. Either process is fraught with challenges. For those who have successfully achieved these...
