Jodi Laking is a serial entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience building and running businesses and has spent the past 12+ years helping entrepreneurs start, grow, and navigate the realities of business ownership through Work Smart Canada.

Drawing on her experience as both a business owner and advisor, Jodi founded Your Business Executor to help entrepreneurs prepare their businesses for life's unexpected interruptions. She works with business owners to create practical preparedness plans that protect their business, support their clients, and provide clear direction for the people who may need to step in during an illness, accident, caregiving situation, planned absence, or other life event.

Through educational resources, workshops, business preparedness planning, and business executor support services, Jodi is helping normalize conversations around business continuity—so business owners can get organized today, prepared for tomorrow, and protect everything they've worked so hard to build.

Areas of expertise

Jodi specializes in helping entrepreneurs prepare for life's unexpected interruptions by developing practical business preparedness plans, organizing essential business information, and creating clear processes for planned and unplanned absences. Her expertise includes business continuity planning, emergency preparedness, succession readiness, business executor support, and helping business owners protect their operations, clients, and legacy before life interrupts their business.

For the past 13 years, we have been proud to serve clients throughout our community. Our practice is well suited for clients who have complex needs, primarily retirees and business owners. As we work to help you reach your goals, we enjoy everything from analysis and creative problem-solving to listening and collaboration. Working one-on-one with you, we build the intricate, personalized strategies that provide solutions for your unique situations, challenges, and opportunities.

I live in Burford with my beautiful wife Lindsay, our two sons, Joshua and Thomas, our daughter Emma, and chocolate lab named Deacon. In our spare time, we love to spend time with family and friends, snowmobile, and travel.