Interview with CDN Controls CEO, Dean Fraser

Real growth doesn’t come from short­cuts. It comes from dis­ci­plined exe­cu­tion, the right peo­ple, and a relent­less com­mit­ment to doing what you say you’ll do.

In this inter­view, Kevin sits down with Dean Fras­er, Co-Founder and CEO of CDN Con­trols, to unpack what it actu­al­ly takes to scale a busi­ness from two founders in North­ern Cana­da to a 750+ per­son orga­ni­za­tion oper­at­ing across Cana­da and the U.S. Dean shares the real sto­ry behind CDN’s growth — what worked, what didn’t, and the hard-earned lessons that shaped the company’s cul­ture of ​“heart and hustle.”

Togeth­er, they explore lead­er­ship through rapid scale, build­ing com­ple­men­tary part­ner­ships, cre­at­ing align­ment as teams grow, and why sus­tain­able suc­cess requires both ambi­tion and dis­ci­pline. This is an hon­est, prac­ti­cal con­ver­sa­tion about build­ing a world-class com­pa­ny — one deci­sion, one rela­tion­ship, and one com­mit­ment at a time.

Here are some high­lights cap­tured in clips:

Unof­fi­cial CEO Sup­port Network

Hard Work Pays Off

Heart and Hustle

Lessons Learned Along the Way

Build­ing a Team of Great People

Or watch the full inter­view here: 

Addi­tion­al Resources Relat­ed to Dean’s Interview:

• CDN Con­trols: Case Study
• Growth Through a ​“Yes, We Can Do That” Philosophy
• Heart and Hustle
• The Shared Expe­ri­ence of a One-Page Strate­gic Plan and Scal­ing Up
• Peo­ple Power