Cultivate Advisors

About

I help business owners scale, recruit/hire/train, overcome challenges, or exit.

With a track record of building creative, unique businesses, I have learned to pivot quickly as roadblocks and opportunities appear. As a Cultivate Advisor, I help owners learn to delegate so they can focus ON their business and work less IN the business. 

The marketing business I founded began as a promotional products distributor and evolved into a full-service agency. Over 25 years, I grew the company from 1-25 employees and watched it rank in the top 1% of all promotional distributors before selling it.  My next enterprise involved 15-seater “pedal-pub” bikes that were used for pub crawls, celebrating special events and corporate team-building. After seven years, I sold the business and started a corporate team building/training company. Working with teams of 8-100 to encourage staff bonding, we taught key lessons in collaboration and communication. 

Because I have personally experienced the successes and pitfalls of entrepreneurship, I have morphed from a “ready-aim-fire” guy to a  "create-review-test-research-implement" guy. As an advisor, I help ambitious owners build innovative strategies, realize revenue growth, avoid common mistakes and take hold of an improved work/life balance. I aim to be an empathetic, tenacious, focused partner with a holistic approach to business. 

Helping business owners scale, recruit/hire/train, overcome challenges, or exit.