Retreat
One place where Williamson and wife leap to is their cottage in the Laurentian Mountains an hour or so north of their workweek Montreal condo in Dart’s headquarter city. “It’s kind of Quebec’s version of the Rocky Mountains. We enjoy going there for some peace and quiet away from all the noise and traffic of Montreal,” says Williamson. With their son now an adult, the couple likes to take a couple of special vacation trips a year. “We celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary in the Dominican Republic this year and that was a lot of fun,” Williamson says. “I view every wedding anniversary as a major accomplishment. I don’t take our 25 years together for granted.”
One professional accomplishment that Williamson is proud of is Dart’s growth. The company multiplied its size five times since he first joined in 2005. He says, “Along the way, we’ve grown horizontally by bringing new products to market, and vertically by acquiring other companies. We’ve made multiple acquisitions since I’ve been at Dart, but I’m proud that through those acquisitions and multiple strong leaders, we maintained the core of our business and did not lose our focus on things like delivering value to our customers, all things that have made Dart a pillar in the helicopter industry for the last 50 years.”
Lessons Learned
That achievement and Williamson’s success didn’t come without mistakes and lessons learned. “Looking back, my failures had a few things in
common: communication and/
or expectations that weren’t clear, and decisions that weren’t made as fast and decisively as needed,” he says. “Sometimes you need to admit that something wasn’t the right decision, regardless off how much you personally wanted it to work.”
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