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In this episode of the Win-Win Podcast, Colson Steber, Co-CEO of Qlarity Access, and Joanne Giordano, Fractional Integrator from Wolf’s Edge Integrators, share their journey of collaboration as Qlarity Access's Visionary and Fractional Integrator (#2 leader) to guide the business through its transition to the Scale stage.
Colson reflects on the evolution of his company—from facing recurring operational challenges to creating a leadership team that fully owns their functions. Joanne discusses the key strategies she implemented to develop internal leaders, transition Colson and his business partner Curtis out of day-to-day roles, and prepare the company for a 10x growth trajectory.
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In this episode of the Win-Win Podcast, we welcome Elise Buie, founder and CEO of Elise Buie Family Law, to discuss how her firm navigated explosive growth and overcame significant challenges with the help of a fractional COO from Wolf's Edge Integrators.
Through her experience, Elise shares valuable insights on scaling a business, fostering leadership growth, and creating a balanced work environment for long-term success.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
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When is the right time to onboard an integrator? In this episode, Conrad Saam from Mockingbird Marketing joins us to share his journey from self-implementing EOS to bringing in an integrator from Wolf's Edge Integrators as his second in command.
Conrad delves into his decision to hire a fractional COO and how her leadership significantly improved the company’s performance by introducing accountability and structure. He also discusses overcoming the challenges of running an agency in a rapidly changing digital landscape.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
In this episode of the Win Win Podcast, we'll share the growth story of Pelletier MS, after months of working with Thomas Hoover from the Wolf's Edge Team. We'll discuss the challenges the company faced before bringing in an integrator.
This episode highlights the significant changes and improvements after the visionary Gaty Pelletier, began working with Ralph Riccio (EOSi) and Tom Hoover (WEI FI).
Visionaries with second thoughts on whether to get an integrator will find this episode very helpful.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
What does a great integrator look like? In this episode of the Win Win Podcast, EOS Implementer Jim Coyle shares his insights on what makes a great integrator and their critical role in a company's success.
Drawing from his journey of owning and running 12 businesses, Jim shares valuable insights on overcoming common leadership challenges and achieving sustainable growth. Whether you're a business owner, leader, or aspiring entrepreneur, this episode offers useful advice for taking your business to the next level.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
The big day is here! Check out our special episode of the Win Win Podcast where we dive into Project MOAA, our new assessment that's going to change the way Implemeters, Visionaries and the EOS community perceives the role of the integrator.
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Processes are the backbone of any successful business. Are you investing enough time in keeping your processes updated?
Join us for this episode of the Win-Win Podcast with Lisa Gonzalez, certified EOS Implementer and co-author of the book Process! - where we dive into the importance of processes in building invincible strategies for our business growth.
Lisa also reveals the critical role of Integrators in ensuring these processes are documented, followed, and applied seamlessly across leadership teams.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
Welcome to the new season of the Win-Win Podcast!
At Wolf's Edge Integrators, we love sharing our success stories. In this episode, Nathan Shea, CEO of SecureStrux, Bill Stratton, EOS Implementer, and our host and founder, Ben Wolf, discuss the challenges and triumphs that led to improved operations and sustainable growth at SecureStrux.
Nate shares his insights into the hurdles his business faced, such as the struggle to find and align with an effective integrator and the challenge of completing only 15% of SecureStrux's annual goals. Bill offers his valuable perspective on providing structure to the SecureStrux team and on hiring a Fractional Integrator (our founder, Ben) to streamline operations, ensuring accountability and the right people in the right seats.
Tune in to this episode to learn how the alignment between Visionary, Fractional Integrator, and EOS Implementer transformed SecureStrux's business operations. Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
Struggling with trust issues in your team? Kim Baker, an expert in team dynamics, shares how to rebuild trust in your organization.
In this episode, Kim explains how unclear roles and poor communication can break trust, and how to fix it. She talks about her process, which includes conducting trust assessments and identifying behaviors that build or break trust.
Our guest shares a real-life example of an engineering team plagued by trust issues due to ambiguous roles and lack of clear expectations. Kim’s structured approach, which involves clarifying roles and improving communication, helped the team move from mistrust to effective collaboration.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
How can you help your team to find purpose in the workplace? Join us on this episode of the Win Win Podcast as we explore the crucial role of purpose in business with Brandon West, founder and Chief Purpose Officer at Phos Creative.
Discover how aligning your team's work with a deeper mission can transform everyday tasks into impactful contributions.
Brandon shares invaluable insights from his journey at Phos Creative, illustrating how purpose can drive business success and personal fulfillment, to cultivate a culture of purpose that resonates through every level of your organization.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
Is being open and honest with others worth it? Embracing these values can build meaningful connections and drive personal and professional growth.
Ken Bogard, an Expert EOS Implementer®, founder of Know Honesty, and co-founder of The Visionary Forum, sheds light on the effects of “West Michigan nice,” a culture that can stifle genuine dialogue.
This episode is packed with valuable lessons on building genuine connections and achieving meaningful communication, whether you’re leading a team or nurturing personal relationships. Ken brings his extensive experience working with over 300 leaders across 60 companies, focusing on fostering openness and honesty for better leadership.
Discover the insights from Ken’s upcoming book, ‘Know Honesty’, and learn how you can take the honesty assessment (knowhonesty.com) to measure your levels of openness in various aspects of your professional and personal life.
Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), or wherever you normally get your podcasts. You can also listen on the web at winwin.cast.rocks. -
So many business owners got tired of never having any profit left after day-to-day business and then had their minds blown by Mike Michalowicz's book, Profit First.
The problem is that just from reading the book, many people can't successfully implement the framework and take advantage of all of its "take your profit first" promises.
This episode features two guests who talk about the solution they came up with for that problem. The first is Jason Petro, a 3X entrepreneur, certified Profit First coach, and co-founder of ProfitPro.app.
Our other guest is also a co-founder of ProfitPro.app, Chris White, a 7x entrepreneur, co-founded Ninety.io, former Expert EOS Implementer, and co-founder of the System and Soul BOS coaching system.
Chris and Jason share how the software system they created, ProfitPro.app, solves that and how business owners can maximally utilize the Profit First Model.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
How can you interrogate your own business to fulfill its potential? Veteran military intelligence and interrogation instructor Daniel Hammond teaches how to ask the hard questions so you can take immediate action to optimize your business.
Daniel is the Founder and President of Business Interrogation LLC (www.BusinessInterrogation.com). He leverages 30 years of military intelligence experience, including as an interrogator and interrogation instructor and his 20 years of business experience. Daniel is also the author of Customer-Driven Leadership: How to Win with Entrepreneurial Servant Leadership, Responsiveness to Client Data, and Constant Creativity (https://www.amazon.com/Customer-Driven-Leadership-Entrepreneurial-Responsiveness-Creativity/dp/B0CB1QW1NN).
Using stories and examples, Daniel shares the main principles he learned in the military of interrogation, shares how he realized their applicability in business once he entered the entrepreneurial world, and teaches us how to apply those principles to our own businesses.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
How similar are codependents and Visionaries/CEOs with their COO/Integrator?
Our guest, Rachel Lebowitz (https://www.rachel-lebowitz.com/empoweredcoo), is a Professional EOS Implementer and is the author of the forthcoming book Empowered COO: A Guide to Restoring Confidence in the Second in Command / Integrator Role.
Rachel shares a unique insight that she came to after studying addiction, codependency, being part of a fast-growing entrepreneurial business married to its founder, and learning from scores of sessions with leadership teams as a Professional EOS Implementer.
She shares where those dynamics come from and what strategies COOs/Integrators can use to become less enmeshed, more effective, happier, more successful, and less burned out.
COOs/Integrators can also take this assessment Rachel developed to determine how empowered and healthy of a 2IC they are: https://www.rachel-lebowitz.com/assessment.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
This is the newest research paper written on business owners' use of fractional executive leadership.
Sifiso Pule, Head Of Strategy at Omnicom in Johannesburg, South Africa, recently conducted research and authored his MBA thesis on interim and fractional leadership for the Henley Business School at the University of Reading in England.
Sifiso shares what his research showed drives businesses to use fractional executive leaders, the most current data on the prevalence of businesses using fractional leaders, who it does or does not work for, and what he found most surprising in his research.
I also asked Sifiso what triggered his interest in the topic such that he researched it so in-depth, about his personal background, and his future plans.
Check out the full research paper, Examining the Effectiveness of the Interim- or Fractional-Leadership Model as a Strategy to Transform a Company’s Performance: A Deductive, Cross-Sectional Study, here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k7mBKYjP99d0J69s4ozlt2fSj-F5Tlpd/view?usp=sharing
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
Why does it so often feel like making money and making meaning are mutually exclusive principles?
Spencer Sheinin, a returning guest on the podcast, shares stories on the topic and his answer to the question.
Spencer is the founder and CEO of Shift Financial Insights, an outsourced bookkeeping, accounting and financial insights company (www.ShiftFinancial.Co) and is the author of EntrepreNumbers: The Surprisingly Simple Path to Financial Clarity (https://www.amazon.com/Entreprenumbers-Surprisingly-Simple-Financial-Clarity/dp/1544504187/).
He shares what he's found works to keep his search for meaning in alignment with how he and his business make money, as well as how he helps his company's clients create alignment between money and meaning in their own lives as well.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
Why do some business owners or leaders retain a communication coach? What's the Return on Investment (ROI)?
Cobey Mandarino (www.CobeyMandarino.com), our guest in this episode is an Executive Coach and Public Speaking Coach. He is also the author of: Fearless Captivating Unstoppable: Your Guide to Better Communication and Public Speaking (https://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Captivating-Unstoppable-Communication-Speaking-ebook/dp/B0BDP5JB4T/).
Cobey shares what people who haven't invested in EQ or communication training are going through and what it's costing them. He takes Ben Wolf, our host, through his coaching process and shows with stories and teachings what the ROI is for those who invest in getting better at communicating.
He also shares some stories and examples of other people who've invested in authenticity, vocal image, and communication coaching, what it was like before, and what it meant for them afterward.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
Most business owners and sales leaders are making a major mistake in how they use (or fail to use) their CRM. Learn how to find the revenue opportunities hiding in your CRM.
Michelle Page, our guest today, is the Revenue Growth & Business Development Leader for her company, Sales Chasers (www.SalesChasers.com)
Michelle shares a systematic approach to going beyond just running after new leads and new sales by mining and updating your CRM.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
The budgeting process is about the most underutilized (and unexpected) tool to reach strategic alignment.
When people think of a budgeting and planning process, they don’t usually think about it being a major tool to getting strategic alignment!
Yvonne Barber, our guest in this episode, is a Fractional CFO through Blue Abacus Solutions (www.BlueAbacusSolutions.com), she has decades of experience in financial leadership, and she's the President of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Atlanta Chapter and Chair of the IMA Global Small Business Committee
Learn from Yvonne what a good and healthy budgeting and planning process looks like and why it's the hidden way most people don't realize can solve half of their strategic questions and issues.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. -
When is the right time to start preparing for sale if you want to sell in the next 3-5 years?
If you want a good valuation and to be able to sell for what you think your company is worth, what do you need to do to make sure you succeed?
Damon Pistulka, our guest in this episode, is the founder of Exit Your Way (www.ExitYourWay.com), a consultancy that helps business owners prepare for and sell their business.
Learn the elements of preparing for an exit and where to go or look for each step. He also shares the mistakes most people make because they make assumptions about what their company is worth when in reality, they don't know what actual buyers and their advisors are looking at or for.
Get all the details Damon shares by listening to the whole episode on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/win-win-an-entrepreneurial-community/id1465488607), wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at https://winwin.cast.rocks/. - Vis mere
