Elaine Froese

Elaine Froese

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Boissevain, Manitoba

Agriculture, Farm Family Transition and Succession Planning Expert

Elaine Froese is a certified professional speaker and coach, and author for nearly 25 years, known as the ‘farm whisperer’ and ‘mother of farm succession’. Elaine Froese specializes in helping farm families who want better communication and conflict resolution to secure a successful farm transition.
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ELAINE FROESE BIOGRAPHY

Elaine Froese (pronounced ‘phrase’), CSP is a certified professional speaker, certified coach, and author. She’s a go-to expert for farm families who want better communication and conflict resolution to secure a successful farm transition.

As a farmer and mother to the successor of their farm, Elaine Froese understands the culture of agriculture intimately.

Elaine Froese has a superpower that is helping families find harmony through understanding. Her expertise is to discuss what she calls the Undiscussabull™ – the bull in the middle of the farm family that no one wants to talk about.

Elaine Froese is an award-winning author who’s written 5 books over the past 25 years.

Faith Today magazine has dubbed her “Canada’s Farm Whisperer”. She was awarded the Farm Management Canada Wilson Loree award for excellence in Farm Business Management, the 4-H Canada First Most Distinguished Alumna award from a pool of 350,000 alumni, as well as the Manitoba 150 Women Trailblazers award.

Elaine’s passion is to share simple, practical and actionable tools with farm families so they can talk about tough issues and get traction in their farm transition. Her topics are a catalyst to courageous conversations and conflict resolution. Expect her to WOW your audience by bringing clarity with workable and practical tools.

Elaine Froese’s on a mission to guide farm families, across North America, to get unstuck, communicate better, find harmony through understanding, and secure a profitable farm legacy. Elaine’s goal is for everyone to be rich in relationships.

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Elaine Froese Topic Presentations

discuss the undiscussabull™ - tools for talking about tough issues in life…and farm transfer!

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  • Conflict avoidance is the biggest barrier to the next generation’s succession success. Elaine Froese provides practical conflict resolution tools to help families have courageous conversations for business continuance and to reduce family tensions. Founders typically want to know where their income streams will be after they let go of power and control of management and/or ownership. They also have marital conflicts about home residence issues and how to be fair to non-business heirs.

    The next generation can’t wait to gain equity and more decision-making power. Young farmers are smart, tech-savvy, and want to have their opinions heard by parents and respected. They also need certainty that timelines for transfer and succession agreements will be honoured. Add the conflict dynamics of a new spouse and you have many interesting conversations ahead! Elaine Froese’s expertise is her practical common sense approach to starting courageous conversations between the generations, and auditing the key challenges.

    You’ll gain insight into the tools you need to talk about tough succession issues and then act on them with agreements that work for the different demands of each stage and age of the successor or founder. Learn to listen to your head, heart, and your “gut”. Elaine delivers actionable information that farm business owners and managers can implement today. She challenges farm family businesses to get “unstuck” and not accept the high anxiety and stress of poor decision-making. Her tools are grounded in years of working with farm succession planning and coaching. Her award winning book Planting the Seed of Hope helps build insight and trust quickly with families seeking tools for dealing with conflict and change.

planning for change - the cycle of renewal - farmers don't retire... they re-invent!

who wants the farm... and when? farm succession planning tools for action

the gift of encouragement - encouraging the heart of your family business

living an intentional life – how to embrace change on your farm with the cycle of renewal

finding fairness in farm transition - how to manage your farm family’s expectations about inheritance.

farming’s in-law factor – how to have more harmony and less conflict on family farms

Elaine Froese travels from Boissevain, Manitoba & delivers customized and tailored keynote speeches, presentations, workshops and training sessions. on the topics enlisted below. These services are designed for a variety of audiences, industries, and event types and event formats.

Testimonials

Elaine came to our community in Dominion City and talked about how rural communities could be vibrant communities by working together. In her workshop she made us really think about who we were and who we would like to be. It made us realize that what a community becomes is really within itself. People can get together and talk about their visions for their community and make it happen. It was a really positive experience and she did an excellent job of leading us in that discussion.

Harold Penner

Canadian Food Grains Bank

Our experience with Elaine was very beneficial. We did a presentation called “The Death of a Farmer” to talk about certain things you need to address during times of a death or in preparation for it. Our involvement with Elaine was fantastic. She brought a lot more of the emotional side to the issue. A lot of the issues you tend to ignore or put to the side, she brings to the forefront. To address those tough areas was important to our clients… During the seminar, Elaine would be speaking and you’d see the wife elbowing the husband saying ‘This is something we’ve got to do.’ They left the seminar inspired and motivated to take action.

Mark Verwey

Partner
BDO Canada

We do a lot of business with farmers — estate planning, disability insurance, etc. — and Elaine works in the industry and is very knowledgeable. She works with farm families and shows them how to solve their problems. We liked her human approach – she’s aware of the stress issues that a lot of farmers have and felt that she was the right person to talk to us. Many of my clients had already used her services and before and were in love with her and I’ve heard so many good things about her. We were really impressed with what she had to say.

George Malstrom

Faith Life Financial

When I heard Elaine was going to be a presenter at our BDO Farm Seminar, I was excited because my family had worked with Elaine before when we were doing estate planning with our farm and I knew she had lots of good advice and that she would give our clients some food for thought and guidance. She likes to let everyone listen and have their say so others can hear what they have to say. She was a real benefit to us on our farm.

Shelly Friesen

Employee and Farmer
BDO Canada

A joy to work with, heard loud and clear. When the farmers laughed or asked a great question, I knew they were listening and really wanted to learn from her. Her tips were easy to understand. It was just about understanding that conflict happens, and to have the confidence in yourself to ask for what you want. In the glowing review from farmers after her presentation, I knew they had heard that loud and clear.

Maddy Berner

Event Planner & Communications Coordinator
National Milk Producers Federation

Elaine helped me allocate $1 Million of assets the night I listened to her. Elaine’s presentation brings value to the use of my services in my office.

Don Forbes

Forbes Wealth Management

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Books

Farm Family Coach Insights - Seeds of encouragement for success in farm transition
Farm Family Coach Insights - Seeds of encouragement for success in farm transition
Elaine Froese is a lifetime farmer, professional speaker writer and coach who helps farm families work through issues surrounding succession, business and communication. In Farm Family Coach Insights, Elaine Froese gathers wisdom from her decades-long career with real farm families to help yours....
Building Your Farm Legacy - Tools to Empower Family
Building Your Farm Legacy - Tools to Empower Family
Many farm folks work hard at producing great crops and caring for livestock, but when it comes to communicating their deepest desires for the future of the farm, they get stuck. Building Your Farm Legacy: Tools to Empower Family is a useful toolbox created by a farm woman, partner, and mother to a...
Farming’s In-Law Factor
Farming’s In-Law Factor
Every farm team wants harmony on their family farm and this book will show you how to get it. There are toolboxes that you can use immediately to find out what's working and what is not working for your farm business partners, who also happen to be family. Certified coach Elaine Froese has spent...
Planting the Seed of Hope
Planting the Seed of Hope
Strong families communicate, connect, and celebrate with their community. This inspirational book compiles Elaine Froese’s first 10 years of writing in Grainews. This book is ideal for people who want to give the gift of hope and encouragement to folks who want to be intentional about making...

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