What We Do

If you can create business success during periods of paradigm-breaking uncertainties like 2008 or 2020, you are ready for anything.

At Jon Hokama and Associates, we are particularly skilled in helping you not only to survive but to thrive in these times.

Our firm works with only a few select owners like yourself. We are committed to developing a relationship with you. We run with you in the passing lane whether it’s your first lap or your last lap of the race, whether you’re exiting this year or in twenty years.

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We know you will have to leave your business someday. Transitioning out of your business will typically be a three-to-five year process and full of uncertainties.

Navigating COVID, racial injustice and economic/health injustice has changed our business environments. We now know we need to build companies that are as committed to cultivating relationships with both our internal and external stakeholders. We empower you and your firm to become the new kind of leader and the new kind of employees that are needed: HEROes.

HEROes are stakeholders who lead with

Heart and spirit: personal virtues, values and character strengths that inform decisions and actions.

Embracive thinking: mental and emotional capacity to embrace diverse thinking and exercise wisdom in every unfolding situation.

Relational Dynamics: awareness of how your physical presence, habits and émotions are impacting others.

Operational Leadership: creating a vision, plan and executing it with all stakeholders to create results.

How do we do this?

By taking you through a process that grounds you in the DNA of your character, your values, and your spirituality to address these key questions:

  • “How do I tap into spiritual resources for myself and my employees?”
  • “How might I create a sustainable business that improves life for myself and all my stakeholders?”
  • “What legacy do I want to leave in my business? for myself and my loved ones?”
  • “What changes do I need to continue to make to be a HERO to my business?”
  • “How do I maximize the value of my business?”
  • “What outside interests and relationships am I currently cultivating outside my business?”
  • “What is my plan for life beyond and after my business?”

By empowering you to develop a path to grow employees into stakeholders by addressing questions such as:

  • “Am I comfortable with the current people, operational and financial risks within my business?”
  • “Have my key employees been prepared to carry on the business?  Do they have a ‘business owner mindset’?“
  • “Are all my employees highly engaged?”
  • “Have I listened to my employees to help them be successful?”
  • “Have I developed productivity based incentives?”

By empowering you to grow in activating your broader stakeholders community:

  • “Have my employees become true internal stakeholders?”
  • “Do I know what my business’ external stakeholders –customers, vendors, neighbors, competitors—need to thrive?”
  • “Does my company have a plan to serve all of them?”
  • “Has my company tapped into the hidden power of serving my competition?”

By guiding you through a three-phase process to address these core questions, we help you to transform your business from one that not only survives but thrives.