Plan, Improve, Grow and Succeed.


Coben Advisory focuses on business advisory services that reflect expertise developed by the principal of the firm over his career journey, education and hands-on experience. Dwayne did not wake up one day as an adult and decide that his service offering would be helping businesses plan, improve, grow and succeed / exit. The development of this expertise has been the culmination of many years involvement in many different industries mainly in financial, strategy and M&A roles that provided the foundation to offer these services to clients. Since inception of Coben Advisory in 2002, we have maintained a focus on these services and have not strayed, as we are confident in our capability to deliver quality results to our clients on the basis that we have been there and done that across many assignments providing these services … plan, improve, grow and succeed / exit. 

Proper planning under the guidance of an expert advisor can be a major step forward in enhancing profitability and shareholder value, as well as stress-reducing for an owner or executive. Utilizing a trusted capable advisor who brings proven processes to help businesses identify and implement improvements to efficiency, profitability and financial or risk management is just good business. Profitable sustainable growth of
businesses usually requires purposeful focused effort and can be significantly augmented with a proven specialized advisor working with you throughout the process. Finally, an owner or executive can considerably improve results of business succession/transfer or sale to a third party of a business by engaging a trusted confidential advisor to prepare well in advance for a succession or exit event.

We appreciate that clients need to feel comfortable with an advisor and ascertain if the advisor is the right fit for the client’s needs. Coben Advisory feels the same … we will not take on work if we do not believe it is within our scope of expertise or if we do not think we are a good fit. Before assignments are accepted and commenced, we are committed to a carefully screening by both parties to ensure there is a solid fit with specialized capabilities and client needs to provide high likelihood of success.