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Jennifer Wilson

Jennifer Wilson

Author, leadership coach, and former CEO of Canada Homestay Network. Registered midwife with expertise in organizational leadership and homestay program management.

Jun 28, 2026

26:11
And yeah, I'm just curious, were there any pitfalls or was everything swimming or did anything go wrong?
26:19
Everything's been swimming since we established the right people in those two roles.
26:25
So we did go through.
26:27
So you asked earlier about the kind of time horizon around how we made announcements when I transitioned from my mom.
26:34
When it was my turn to transition, I gave those two people that I had in mind for the role 18 months lead time.
26:43
to think about, um, what we were trying to accomplish together and to, um, to help me with, with the continued sort of, um, transition around delegating tasks and, and thinking of, I mean, and it was also sort of during COVID, COVID was, you know, decimated our industry, as you can imagine that nobody was getting on planes to fly across the world to go to school.
27:06
So, um, so we suffered, um, I'll just give you some numbers there.

7 MINS LATER

34:15
Did you have anything in place for the co-CEOs as well from a management retention standpoint?

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