Succession – a conversation withRich Ashton author of Growing Your Own

The Independent Minds · Apr 30, 2026 · 29m

Growing Your Own leaders ensures the sustainability of your organisation.

Rich Ashton is an entrepreneur who rescued a company from bankruptcy and over more than thirty years developed Toms Mechanical into a successful business.

When Rich developed an interest in retiring, he started to look for ways in which he could exit that business. After investigating all the options, he decided that the people to continue his work were the people he had been working alongside. The problem was that those people knew how to work in the company, but they did not know how to lead it.

Rich decided to launch…