Ian Richardson Email & Phone Number

At Fox & Crow, I get the absolute privilege of working with Entrepreneurs and their leadership teams to help scale and sell businesses.Being able to assist fellow business owners reach the closing table and embark on the next stage of their life's purpose is a joy, and truly makes work feel like play.I use a consultative process customized to your needs to help us get from where you are today to where you want to be tomorrow.Learn more at https://foxcrowgroup.com

I serve as Managing Partner & Principal Consultant at R&R; the majority of my time is spent working with entrepreneurs and their leadership teams as a coach, facilitator, and consultant. Being able to serve these individuals and their organizations is a true privilege, and has the amazing quality of making work "play." Rarely is the activities I perform "draining" - instead I find this work a constant and consistent source of vitality and reinvigorating energy. I found my path to this through my own life journey, exploration and discovery. Our mission of "changing the world by helping entrepreneurs realize and achieve their vision" resonates down to the core of my person. At R&R, I aim to achieve that world-changing impact by assisting 1000 entrepreneurs, leaders, teams, and organizations. Through facilitation, coaching, consulting, and advising, those teams of humans can gain clarity on what they find important, align their teams around that vision, improve their ability to lead themselves and those around them in support of pursuit of their vision, and creation of simple and effective process to ensure their success. Our process starts with a conversation to begin learning where you're at and where you'd like to be. You can get started here: https://randr.membrain.com/Meet/ian@randr.consulting

Doberman Building Company was an investment management and tax planning structure designed to allow for additional compensation to myself and my family while support business operations at both Doberman Technologies (My old IT Service company) and Managed Sales Pros (the telemarketing agency I helped package and sell). Through running that organization, I learned invaluable lessons around tax planning and strategy, wealth creation, profit and loss management, real estate strategy and sales, and liquidation events. I utilize these skills today when consulting with other entrepreneurs on how they can meet their vision and success targets.

I was brought into Managed Sales Pros with a specific charge of fixing and optimizing processes, documentation, and sales strategy to support a successful planned exit of the founder and owner of the organization. Over the course of 6 months, I worked with the owner and operations manager of Next Level Services, the identified buyer, to optimize business process, fill in documentation holes, formalize a sales process and cadence, and acquire new business to support the needed valuation for sale. The sale was successfully completed in October of 2022, and I transitioned away from the role as planned.The lessons learned throughout this process form a core basis of the skills I utilize with clients today who are considering the sale of their business.If you're thinking about selling your business and want to chat about what I learned here, I'm happy to do so -- book some time here: https://randr.membrain.com/Meet/ian@foxcrowgroup.com

East Lansing, Michigan, Us

Throughout my tenure at Doberman, I learned the basics of entrepreneurship, business ownership, management (in all its forms), communication, team and leadership development, process management and development, and sales/marketing. These skills were often learned via trial, error, and more trials. Throughout my career at Doberman, I took away a wide range of tools, skills, processes, and lessons that continue to serve me today in my consulting role.I share these items freely with any who might find value in them -- feel free to start the conversation here: https://randr.membrain.com/Meet/ian@randr.consulting

Bba, Management, Information Technology

As, Computer Networking