This site is intended for the small business owner or CEO.  I want to provide the benefit of my experience and my lessons learned from over 20 years of creating, running and growing a small business in the United States.  I do not wish to represent myself as being everything to everyone.  I do not have the answers to every question, nor do I have all the ideas.

Much of what you will read here comes not from my intellectual brilliance, but from my scars. If my lessons learned can help you prevent learning them yourself then I will consider this site a great success.

I searched for mentorship & coaching for years. I hired CEO Coaches, leadership coaches and life coaches. I have read, and continue to read a lot of books.  I also read a lot of blogs and listen to a lot of TED Talks.  I have joined and participated in local, regional, national and even international business leadership and life improvement organizations. I participated in deep, immersive experiences that took 12-18 hours a day for 4-7 days at a time. I found a lot of good, a lot of bad and a lot of self-serving recommendations. I found a lot of big, generic theories that got me and everyone else around me excited. I found a lot of great events, ideas and materials. I saw a lot of people get addicted to events, entertainment and excitement. And then I went back home, back to the office and struggled with converting those theories, concepts and events into a specific action item at 8 AM on Monday morning. I found a gap between all the excitement and all the theory and Monday morning in the real world.

I found books written by former US Presidents and the CEOs of successful and large corporations to be entertaining and interesting. I also found them discussing the use of resource pools and access to the kind of money that I had no chance of reaching. They were great reads, but taught me little about the day-to-day leadership of my company.

I was looking for basic answers. How was I doing as a leader? How could I do better? What should I change and how should I prioritize my changes? How do I improve profitability? How do I improve employee retention? How do I stop the revolving door at the top positions of my organization? Was I behaving in a manner that forced my leaders out the door?

I have spoken to small business owners and CEOs since my experience and believe that many small business leaders struggle with a search for basic help and advice. What has worked? What hasn’t?