In my current role as an Executive Coach and Advisor, I partner with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and business leaders to unlock their growth potential. From guiding entrepreneurs in acquiring existing businesses to developing high-performing teams, I focus on tangible results. One example is my work with a client who successfully acquired and scaled a company, increasing revenue by 30% in the first year.As a company matures, it’s not uncommon for leadership teams to hit the ceiling of what’s possible under their current skill set. Sometimes, the skills that initially made a leadership team great can even begin to hold them back.𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠.Over the last 30 years, I’ve helped hundreds of leadership teams adapt to new circumstances and build new skills. Together your team can learn to:👉 Create clarity instead of asking your staff to thrive in chaos.👉 Understand the difference between a doer, an expert and a leader.👉 Stop role-playing other companies’ leadership styles, and find your own. 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞: ◼ You’re a mid-cap company with 100+ staff and a market value well into eight figures.◼ You feel as if your business has stalled, lacks clear direction, or that its needs have outgrown its people.◼ You’re in a transitional phase. Maybe you’re having trouble leaving your startup days behind you, are feeling stagnant and need to work out what’s next, or are struggling to reach a new milestone. ◼ Your leadership team feels stuck, burned out, or out of their depth.◼ You keep waiting for things to pick up or settle down, but they never do. 𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫? Book a free no-strings call with me today: 📞dougthorpe.com/chat

1M+ plays | Over 20,000 regular listeners | In the top 2% of business podcasts worldwide Imagine if you had access to the knowledge, experience, and advice of the world’s top-performing executives and entrepreneurs. And, instead of paying millions for it, you got everything for FREE in fun, easy-to-follow segments of an hour or less.That’s what Leadership Powered by Common Sense is all about.I ask successful leaders from all industries and backgrounds to share their top tips for running a better business. In 2023, over 40,000 people tuned in for👉 Practical, no-nonsense business advice.👉 Measured, rational discussion on trends and hot topics in the business world.👉 Help cutting through the fog of business life and seeing things more clearly.👉 Aha moments by the bucket load.𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠, 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭:◼️ Our most listened-to episode: Easy Ways to Eliminate Your Business Bottlenecks (#073) ◼️ Our fan-favorite episode: One Entrepreneur’s Journey to Success (#077)◼️ Our most talked about episode: Be Different or Be Dead - How's That for Marketing (#043) ◼️ My favorite episode: How to Build a Business Culture that ROCKS! | Ep 101 (Hard Rock Cafe that is)Listen now on Apple, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts: podcasts.dougthorpe.com

Creator of the Team Trust Model - helping leaders build trust at work using practical, logical processes to make it happen. Trust is not a soft, fuzzy people-skill thing. It's a tangible, measurable core of a vibrant, high-performance team.If your team is not performing the way you think they should, you may be lacking trust. Let me show you how to build a culture of trust.

At every successful company, there comes a time when its leader stops, takes stock, and realizes that they’re not running a scrappy, little startup anymore.New business life is high speed, high stress and high risk. This can be energizing and exciting, but your staff, customers, shareholders and family will not put up with this sort of environment long-term.𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡, 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲. If you hope to guide your company smoothly through this stage of its development, you’ll need to adapt your leadership style and develop a whole new set of skills. Luckily, the skills you need are not hard to learn.𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨:👉 Lead with confidence, strength and clarity.👉 Unite teams behind a common purpose. 👉 Turn their successful startup into a successful mid-cap company. 👉 Get their successful mid-cap company on track to becoming a large-cap company.Together, we can: ◼️ Do a top-to-bottom analysis of your business.◼️ Define and reshape your business direction.◼️ Create a strategy for taking your business to the next level.◼️ Get the most out of your senior leadership team.◼️ Build growth and exit strategies.◼️ Raise more capital.𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥-𝐮𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬, 𝐥𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭.Book a free no-strings call today: 📞dougthorpe.com/chat

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Franklin Covey (FC) is the next generation in Executive Development & Coaching. Every industry has its leaders . . . great companies that innovate and shape the future. FC envisions what leadership development could be and is leading the way there. FC executive coaching services focus on helping your leaders and teams perform to their highest potential, in alignment with your business strategies. And our leadership development consultant services address your total talent management system.

Lee Hecht Harrison helps companies simplify the complexity associated with transforming their leadership and workforce so they can accelerate results, with less risk. We specialize in Career Transition and Outplacement, Leadership Development, Employee Engagement, and Change Management.Talent Development and Executive Coaching, Team Development, Group Facilitation, Change Management, and Succession Planning

We provide world-class professional development and community networking through our webinars, learning events, sell-out annual Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference sponsored by Harvard Medical School, and an unparalleled coaching resource library. We also provide grants to support promising coaching research.

Practice Leader responsible for program and project delivery. My executive leadership resulted in consistent delivery of consulting engagements on time and with high client satisfaction, grossing over $90 million for the firm. Clients included FDIC, Bank of America, TD Bank, RMS, and numerous other national and regional banks and financial institutions.

Founded, launched, and built this regional non-denominational, faith-based 501c(3) jobs ministry that has been published in Fortune. Provide regional assistance for individuals in career transition. Designed and delivered more than 135,000 man hours of training and career coaching for over 4,500 clients. Led a mastermind group for senior executives in transition.

President and CEO of this national business advisory and consulting company. Developed cutting-edge technology and provided outsourcing solutions for client companies nationwide. Advisor to multiple post-merger bank operations unit consolidations.Instrumental in the creation of three separate start-ups, grossing a total of $30 million within 3 years of start-up.Established and built a specialized consulting business that provided clients with strategies and solutions for streamlining internal operations, enhancing systems, reducing risk, and strengthening controls. As senior advisor and consultant to 200+ client companies, architected numerous BPO service models that resulted in revenue growth of 25% annually.

Managed operations for 3 distinct business units, including a mortgage warehouse banking operation funding $50MM+ per day, achieving a perfect record of zero defects and zero losses over a 15-year period. Oversaw various functions, including P&L/budget planning, process improvement, internal controls, technology implementation/ conversions, and staff training and development. Managed migration of bank’s $5B real estate loan portfolio.

Served honorably as a Captain in the U.S. Army, gaining broad experience in personnel, administrations, and operations management. Recipient of Meritorious Service Medal.