Ryan loves Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs). While he works with clients of all sizes, he is an expert at bringing proven best practices from large businesses to SMBs in highly effective ways.Through coaching, training, workshops and projects, Ryan helps executives ruggedize and scale their businesses. The results are growing, healthy and sustainable businesses that provide freedom to the owners and executives who run them. As shepherds of the platform that has been provided to us all, we can make greater impact in the world when we operate with excellence.With more than twenty years of experience, as CEO for about half, Ryan understands what it takes to develop teams to achieve success.Strategic project experience includes a career foundation at Hewlett Packard and a practice and office leader at a “Big 4” Boutique consulting firm. Clients have ranged in size from 50 employees to Fortune 100s including Delta Air Lines, NCR, AutoTrader, McKesson and Sabre but also many small and medium businesses.He loves to dive into the areas of Operational Excellence, Process Improvement, Change Management, Sales Process and Customer Experience, and he knows firsthand how to continuously increase EBITDA and reach those critical growth milestones of $1M, $10M+, $100M and even $1B. He’s also led full scope of post-merger & acquisition integrations ranging in size from $10M to $500M.He’s held board and strategic advisory roles with investor-backed (private equity and otherwise) growth firms, as well as nonprofits and professional associations. He’s active at his church and holds leadership roles in various networking and professional organizations. He’s married to his wife, Susan, and they are the proud parents of their three children.