I'm retired as CEO, so now I can help build other CEO's and executive leaders - all while solidifying the succession plan within great organizations. With my new venture - Leadership Factory! I am helping MBA's become CEO's by putting the soft skills of business and human leadership to work together to grow their careers. What they don't teach you in business school - but leaders need to know - I have recorded and catalogued to help you with. Hard skills are necessary, these soft skills are imperative for the future of business leadership and Boards.This impacts people and companies from two perspectives:1. Helps a hungry learner who is looking to grow in a company find a career path to the executive suite. In other words - how do you put your education to work for you. The investment you made is not a one-time thing, and I'm here to help you maximized it.2. Helps a Board of Directors and C-Suite find successors and train them properly to de-risk this aspect of a company as well as maximize top-level leadership bench-strength. Board Directors, let's face it - we have a GAP in our leadership. It is partially generational and part engineered by how business has operated the past few decades. Time to fix that. I'm here to do that.My history:I am the recently retired CEO of RE/MAX Holding, a public company I sat in the C-suite of and on the Board of. As the Chief Executive Officer of RE/MAX Holdings, I oversaw its four brands: RE/MAX, LLC, a top real estate brand of 142,000 agents, in 8,900 offices in over 110 countries and territories; Motto Franchising, LLC, the first national mortgage brokerage franchisor in the U.S. and one of the fastest growing emerging franchisees; booj, an award-winning real estate technology company; and First, an AI firm specializing in maximizing client acquisition through the use of AI technology; and G73, a cutting edge data aggregation and geo-spatial intelligence firm with some mind-blowing capabilities.Before joining RE/MAX, I ran a SWAT team. We’d kick in doors, blow things up, save people.Nearly two decades later, my professional life is completely different, but my approach remains the same. My goal always is to break down barriers, blow up conventional thinking, and help as many people as possible achieve success. A two-time college dropout who got straight A's on my MBA, I believe in systems and habits to effectively achieve results. A student and teacher in leadership principles, sales tactics, and technology growth, I enjoy a good challenge. And building a great team.