About Eric Lee, Vancouver Business Coach
ERIC LEE
Design and Construction Business Coach
I’m a Building and Interior Designer, Project Manager, Serial Entrepreneur, Father, Mentor, and Design and Construction Business Coach. You may ask what super-skills do I have?
Well on the one hand; I’m a self taught designer who designed my first home when I was only 18 years old. I love to draw, sketch and most of all, dream! So I get what it’s like to be the creative type. The messy desk, the distaste for numbers, and the distinguished fashion sense; I get all that!
On the other hand, I come from a long line of successful entrepreneurs. In fact, no one in my family has ever needed to have a nine to five job. I only had one “job” before I became my own boss. Later, I established my own group of companies and built them into a well-known, award-winning brand. Now, I’m the CEO and Design Director of the VictorEric Group and also have founded 8 other companies. Having built the primary operating company from a single employee to a team of 55 people gives me some real world experience on what it takes for a creative person to run and grow a company.
I also have a passion for the personal-effectiveness movement and have dedicated 20 years to learning and experimenting with the various technologies for breaking through limitations the human mind imposes. I love equipping people with the tools and encouragement they need to become their best; achieving more than what they can even imagine for themselves. Generally, limiting beliefs are the obstacles to the achievement of goals. If you can change your mindset, you can change the results of your life. My on-going commitment to training in personal-effectiveness technologies provides me an extensive menu of options to help people adopt a more successful mindset.
Lastly, I am a husband in a beautiful, ever blossoming marriage and a father of two amazing teenage girls. The experience of growing and guiding a family, especially a family with teenage girls, has put my coaching skills to the test. Balancing nurturing, discipline, encouragement, and inspiration in such a way as to create self-motivated, self-sufficient social contributors requires more patience and skill on my part than just giving away the answer. My philosophy is to not “give a person a fish so they eat for a day. Instead, teach them how to fish so they can eat for a lifetime”.
The combination of these four worlds of experience, makes me the perfect business coach for creative entrepreneurs
Creative training as Architect & Interior Designer
Systematic & Linear thinking as Project Manager
Relevant experience as multiple business owner
Action Oriented & Goal Focused
What Makes Me Unique as a
Business Coach in Vancouver
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Relevant Business Experience
I still actively manage 4 other companies ranging in all sizes and this makes me relevant as a business coach, understanding the current day struggles of my clients as they build their business. My current businesses are all within the Design & Construction industry so I know those businesses intimately.
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Fellow Creative
As a creative myself, I empathize with other creative business owners not understanding the complexities of business and finance. I can speak their language and make it simple for them.
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Fellow Craftsman
I’ve been on both the residential and commercial side of the construction world. I understand the unique struggles of contractors and tradespeople. And I know what it takes to make businesses in the construction industry a success.
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Action Oriented & Goal Focused
As a successful entrepreneur, I am naturally action oriented. I bring this quality to help guide my clients who don’t have this quality and lay out the next steps to their success.
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Systematic Thinker
As a Project Manager and owner of multi-department company, I can bring my linear thinking and understanding of process to systematize your workflow to find the most efficiency for your business.
For those that care about the initials behind a name, here are my credentials:
- CPHD (Certified Passive House Designer)
- B.Tech (Building Technology)
- Founder of 8 businesses, active in 4 of them
- Board of Trustee member for Waldorf School Society
- Interior Designer (Self taught)
- Building Designer (Self taught)
- BCIT Entrepreneur Mentor (4 consecutive years)
- Big Brothers (4 consecutive years)
- Multiple Personal Effectiveness trainings (over 13 courses)
THE STORY THAT INSPIRED ME TO BE A BUSINESS COACH
Parable of the Starfish
Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean for exercise.
One day, the old man was walking along a beach that was littered with thousands of starfish that had been washed ashore by the high tide. As he walked he came upon a young boy who was eagerly throwing the starfish back into the ocean, one by one.
Puzzled, the man looked at the boy and asked what he was doing.
The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the boy replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”
The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”
The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”
adapted from The Star Thrower, by Loren Eiseley (1907 – 1977)
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