Who we are

We are not a traditional large consulting firm, as we focus on helping our clients to grow by investing time and money in solutions and experts that can really deliver ROI and growth to your company.

Clients & Partners

Our Story

Connect4 Growth has evolved over 20 years from helping Fortune 500 companies to now specializing in helping small and mid-sized businesses (under $50 million in revenue) to strategically plan, raise capital, improve processes, grow their business and ​ultimately sell their business/cash out.

In 1992 when our president went searching for a supplier who could train his sales staff. What he found instead was a confusing sea of vendors and no good way to compare them, evaluate them or manage them. In response, he launched The Training Broker Inc..

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The company has evolved to become Connect4Growth which was the umbrella organization that included  Connect4Training as a division that specifically serviced the training and development marketplace.

Connect4Growth was launched in recognition of the rapid growth in the outsourcing of services. With a client base of Fortune 500 companies, and a database of over 2500 vendors, the company expanded to help all other functional areas within an organization (ie. HR, IT, marketing, procurement, sales, maintenance, etc .).

Connect4Growth's expanded service to help the corporate world realize on the promised benefits of outsourcing and partnering with industry & subject mater experts. The Company sees great opportunity with large, mid and small organizations both in the private sectors.

By recognizing the need for a system to help companies keep track of vendors & alliance partners, to source, select and manage - current and potential vendors, the company launched SaaS web-based application “ the VRM4 ALL Series.

VRM4 ALL responded to a much needed on-line service to better manage outsourced Vendors/Partners in an increasingly dynamic and competitive environment, where time is money and knowledge reduces risk.

Good Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) processes and systems assist existing vendors to provide better service to their clients by helping them to be more responsive and thus help them grow.

From 20 years of experience, Connect4 Growth has helped most industries, in almost all areas of business improvement including sales, technology, customer engagement & HR, as well as, helping companies raise capital and sell businesses.

Key People 

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Tom Hawkett - Chief Connection Advisor

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Toronto, Canada

Our Values

We embrace 4 key values.

• Responsiveness
  We are quick to respond to all client requirements. You will always hear from us within 12 hours of sending a request. We support your need for speed.                                                                                   

• Knowledge
  Knowledge forms the heart of any organization, but it must be well managed and shared to be of any use. Realizing this, we offer products and services geared to helping clients and vendors effectively create, store, access, use and share relevant information.
   

• Resourcefulness
  Our vendor database contains 3,000 profiles and continues to grow. Even so, we are never content to limit our searches. We use all the resources and information at our disposal to conduct the widest possible search, and deliver the best results.
   

• Objectivity
  We guarantee our clients an objective evaluation of their needs and a search that selects vendors based strictly on best fit. If you have a business issue and you think an outsourced solution or resource might be able to help…contact us…We are good at brainstorming strategically to consider all your options.