The business world has become overrun with rules and regulations. Too difficult to start a company. Too obstructive to operate a business. If the many difficulties are successfully navigated and a little bit of success is found, even more difficulties show up through taxes and fees and compliance issues and overreaching governments and on and on.Sitting in every seat of a good sized national "small business" that operated internationally gave me quick insight to a lot of the difficulties businesses must overcome. Walking through these and understanding them gave me the opportunity to more than double the size of the national footprint through M&A opportunities, startups, corporate collaboration, and quick growth of our team.The skills of proactively seeing the difficult pitfalls in the business world came to be very valuable and highly sought after. Business professionals were buying me lunch more and more often to "pick my brain" about business endeavors. Walking out business strategy and all potential options helped business leaders at all levels, and my calendar was quickly being filled. This position gave me unique vision into the business world.I found the best solution adds value to every stakeholder involved in a business decision. Anything less is either greedy or lazy.As an executive advisor, my focus lies in guiding growing companies or those seeking a return to growth. Leveraging unconventional thinking, I specialize in creating differentiating value for all stakeholders. I thrive on substantial collaboration and ambitious thinking in various domains, be it businesses, churches, or families. Supported by my gracious wife of 19 years, I prioritize attendance at my three children's events, with my boys leaning towards football at ages 9 and 11, and my 14-year-old daughter excelling in everything, including unexpected musical pursuits.Amidst a fundamental shift in the business world, adaptation to accelerating opportunities is imperative.Currently, my favorite business initiative is a company that is the connective tissues amongst nonprofit entities that serve the least of these. Banded Together adds value to every stakeholder and actively brings God's Kingdom to Earth in very practical and worthy ways.Please reach out to me at jerad@bandedtogether.co if you have interests to: - Grow God's Kingdom - Support others - Activate the church - Bring transparency to the nonprofit world - Grow companies, for profit or non profitLet's make the world a better place for all