Tom Deans

Tom Deans – Guest Speaker

Tom Deans is the President of Détente Financial Press., which specializes in teaching business wealth protection strategies to advisors and business owners. By combining humor and his experience as president of a family-owned multi-national corporation for almost a decade, Tom has shown thousands of business owners how to protect the retained earnings in their businesses.

Tom’s best-selling book, Every Family’s Business provides the framework for his public lectures and seminars. From billionaires in South Dakota to impoverished coffee growers in El Salvador, Tom has delivered his controversial new approach to family business succession planning.

His new message on a subject as old as business itself, has changed the lives of thousands of business owners and with more than 50,000 copies of his book, sold in 14 countries; it is already the best-selling family business book of all time.

Tom has worked in Banking and in government relations, has been the president of a railway, holds patents and chaired a federal government committee on tax credits.  Deans earned a BA from Mount Allison University, a MA from McMaster University and a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick (UK).

Tom has been featured in numerous magazines and journals including Profit, Money Sense and Investment Executive.  A frequent guest on CBC, MoneyLine and BNN, Tom is a highly sought after international public speaker on succession planning, wealth management and philanthropic giving.

His message is both thought provoking and novel and it starts with a new definition of what a business owner’s real legacy is.