Business Consultant and Business Coach for Burnaby Owners

Burnaby's downtown holds corporate offices, three hotels, the Burnaby Board of Trade and the largest mall in B.C. Metrotown station was the second-busiest on SkyTrain in 2025. For a retailer or restaurant owner, strong foot traffic can hide thin margins. We help owners around Metrotown set up a weekly key-numbers review, schedule staff against real sales patterns, and plan for the mall-site redevelopment instead of reacting to it.

Brentwood had about 10,500 residents in 2011 and is projected to reach 52,600 by 2041. The Amazing Brentwood and Gilmore Place are large retail and office projects near two Millennium Line stations. The Ricky's restaurant chain has its head office here too. An owner opening or expanding here may hit a hiring wall before a demand problem. Coaching helps you build a reliable layer of managers while the area grows.

Near the Coquitlam border, the old Lougheed Mall is becoming The City of Lougheed. The plan allows up to 23 towers and 300 new shops and restaurants. Phase 2 alone plans about 173,000 sq ft of retail and restaurant space, including the first stretch of a covered outdoor mall. For owners who stay open through the building work, we plan cash flow and staffing around each construction phase, and revisit the plan as access changes.

Along Kingsway by the New Westminster border, Edmonds mixes high-rises, office towers and street retail. The City lists BC Hydro among the employers here. The community plan adopted in March 2025 calls for 30 to 40 storey towers with shops at street level, and keeps the Station District largely industrial. That leaves room for both shopfronts and small industrial firms. For a machine shop or service company here, a fractional COO can set up job costing and a weekly production meeting.

The Heights is North Burnaby's main street, on Hastings Street from Boundary Road to Gamma Avenue. It has been a Business Improvement Area since 1994 and has roughly 330 to 360 businesses. Services, food and drink, and health care lead the mix. Hats Off Day is the largest event in Burnaby. Coaching helps a café or clinic owner hand off daily tasks, hire a dependable second-in-command and take a real day off.

South of Marine Drive on the Fraser River, the Big Bend holds farmland, movie studios and business parks from Marine Way Estates to Glenwood Industrial Estates, plus the Big Bend Crossing power centre. Food makers, cold storage and film suppliers share the area. For a distributor or production supplier here, we map the path from order to delivery, find the bottleneck, and add simple checks to catch mistakes before they reach customers.

Opened in 1995, Glenlyon is a 130-acre office, high-tech and industrial park near the Fraser River. Ballard Power Systems has its headquarters here, and the City lists Best Buy Canada, CPA Canada and LMI Technologies among the tenants. Electrical, IT and facilities firms that serve parks like this can end up leaning on a few large accounts. Consulting helps you price and staff that work, with the aim that no single customer runs your calendar.

UniverCity sits on Burnaby Mountain beside Simon Fraser University. University High Street has a grocery store, a bank, cafés, a dental centre and a walk-in clinic, and the Discovery Place-SFU research park is nearby. The planned gondola has no construction date yet. For now, trade on the hill depends on the people who live, study and work there. We help shop owners plan staff and stock around the school year, and help young research firms set up basic operations before they hire.

Still Creek is light-industrial, office and warehouse land along Still Creek Drive, beside the Central Valley Greenway. Willingdon Park Business Centre holds office and tech tenants such as Fortinet and FortisBC, and nearby Eastbrook Executive Park has Costco. A small firm here may run a warehouse floor and an office side by side. A fractional COO links the two with one set of numbers, so stock, sales and staffing get discussed at the same weekly meeting.

Lake City is Burnaby's largest business centre, about 400 acres along Lougheed Highway, opened in 1952. Global BC's studios, H.Y. Louie Company and AECOM are among its City-listed tenants. Lake City Way and Production Way-University stations serve the area. For a growing trades or service firm here, the work can outgrow what the owner keeps in their head. We write down how the work really gets done, then train a lead hand to run it.

Between Metrotown and Brentwood, next to BCIT, Discovery Place has been a high-tech business centre since 1979. Electronic Arts Canada, Xenon Pharmaceuticals, LifeLabs and Pacific Blue Cross are among its City-listed tenants. Founders of small tech and life-science firms are often strong on product and new to managing people. Coaching gives a technical founder a plan for delegation, one-to-ones and hiring, so the team can grow without every decision waiting on one desk.

At Boundary Road and Lougheed Highway, this 57-acre park puts The Bridge Studios, home to the largest effects stage in North America, beside Home Depot, restaurants and a hotel. Production work comes in bursts. If you supply crews, catering, rentals or trades to film sets, we help you build a simple forecast and a flexible staffing plan, so a busy shoot is less likely to eat your margin and a quiet month is less likely to drain cash.

Three office-focused business centres sit along Canada Way. Willingdon Green has D-Wave's Burnaby operations, Clio and BCAA. Dominion has the Delta hotel and conference centre and Grand Villa Casino. Deer Lake holds City of Burnaby offices and Fraser Health's public health unit. For small accounting, engineering and consulting practices that sell their time, we track billable hours, set clear roles and run a meeting rhythm built to keep projects on schedule.