Consulting Services

One deep specialty is Founder Transitions. We work with the founder and the executive team to help ensure success when bringing in the next generation of professional management. Our years of experience helping emerging companies grow blends with our extensive knowledge of founder issues and dynamics to make us the top talent in this area.

We help determine IF it’s time to bring in a new CEO and to make the transition as positive as possible for all. Our goal is to redefine success for founders and to ensure a productive, positive and honoring transition for founders when the time comes to turn over the reins.

The Book - The Founder Factor

'Insider Secrets to Growing a Billion Dollar Business'

$19.95

By Nancy Truitt Pierce

When founders, boards and executive teams get together to build a billion dollar business, they often fail to realize that what's required in a leader during the early stages of growth is altogether different than what's needed later on. The characteristics of leadership so crucial in a company's infancy - the vision, the drive, the creative genius - are not the same qualities needed in a big company. This book is about the journey from entrepreneurial start up to a high impact company and the pitfalls you can avoid along the way.

The Study

We are conducting a longitudinal study as a follow up to our successful book, “The Founder Factor”. We started this longitudinal study of founder run companies in an effort to quantify the keys related to success in high impact, high growth companies. We are looking for additional founders to participate in the study.

We have a cohort of 40 companies participating in the longitudinal aspect of the study but are also looking for a few founders to complete ONE SURVEY, only. Our goal is to ensure the richest pool of data to draw from. The survey is online and would take 10 - 20 minutes to complete. Please let us know by email if you are willing to participate or at least discuss it.

The Founder Study is a look at the changing leadership needs and transitions in the role of the founder as companies grow. The findings will provide significant data on the factors that impact company success, founder transitions and leadership succession. My collaborators on the study are Dr. John Perry. of Wichita State University who received his doctorate form Penn State in strategic management and CEO transitions and Dr. Eva Yao who completed her doctorate at the University of Washington in organizational behavior and entrepreneurship.

There is very little data that we will supply to you in the short term. You will get a copy of your results against the benchmark and a copy of the final report, of course but very little date of real use to you in the short term. Hence, this will be an extremely generous contribution of your time for very little personal return. But we believe the findings from this study will be an invaluable contribution to future generation of entrepreneurs.

For the next steps, let me know by email if you are willing to participate and / or discuss it further. If yes, you will receive an email invitation to an online survey. It will probably take 10 - 20 minutes to complete.