Supercharge your business
We all get stuck “in the forest” without a clear path; or we rely on yes people and our echo chamber for solutions. Reaching out, we receive vague, one-size-fits-all remedies from unfamiliar sources. That doesn’t lead you to sensible resolutions.
Ask top-tier professionals the secret behind their success. Their answer? Collaboration. Business leaders, athletes, and specialists don’t stand alone in their quest for improvement. They seek out guidance, surrounding themselves with others who inspire, inquire, encourage, and offer objective counter-points.
Don’t waste hours seeking shortcuts from blogs, YouTube, or Google searches. Your time and future are too valuable to treat like an easter egg hunt. Reach out to experienced professionals who focus on your specific needs, offering objective, one-on-one guidance and personal attention.
Your first ally? Robert Young.
Your Business Strategist
Spanning over 20 years, Robert has extensive education and experience running and consulting every aspect of businesses. Having created and exited 3 start-ups, and managed within two Fortune 1000 companies with over $100M in P&L responsibility. Robert is well versed at setting up businesses to be financially stable.
Robert delivers ROI-focused solutions and is an advocate of bespoke technology. Whether it’s helping companies and clients through coaching, consulting, or rolling his sleeves up as a taskmaster, clients receive the hands-on, one-on-one, individual attention they need.
Specialties include start-up ventures, distressed operations, negotiation, crisis resolution, uncovering new opportunities, increasing revenue, and guiding clients to growth.
I need help with:
As a business leader, sometimes you need an outside person to speak with; someone who understands your challenges and can guide you to better decisions to the obstacles you face.
Reach out to gain an empathetic partner in your quest to become a better leader, solve business roadblocks, and get that much needed affirmation and respect of a job well-done.
They’re fun and exciting, but the dream can be shattered quickly without good planning, making important connections, building a talented team, and ensuring proper funding.
This is where experience matters. No matter what stage of the start-up process you are in, get in contact so together we can maximize this opportunity.
Taking your business to the next level, whether it be adding locations or adding new products & services, let’s start with a good plan, build your connections, train your team, and pull the trigger.
Having an experienced consultant by your side will make sure all the moving parts are optimized while helping you maintain sanity throughout the process.
Why create a business plan? Maybe you’re seeking financing or investors, maybe you’re wanting legitimacy, or even just exercising common sense.
Every business needs a good plan, nobody enjoys the process of building it. They can be tedious and time consuming, but it’s a rough roadmap of your planned success.
Reach out to ease this process with someone who has built many plans that won millions in investment.
Sometimes your operations are obviously broken, and sometimes it’s not readily apparent. There is seldom a business that can’t benefit from an outside analysis to improve operations efficiency, make customers happier, develop loyal employees, and expand growth opportunities.
It’s an investment pays dividend directly to your top and bottom line.
A financial analysis from a business consultant is different from something you get from your accountant. Where your accountant’s reports tell you “what is”, a managerial accounting will show you “what could be” and “what should be”.
Forward looking P&L’s, Budgets, Projections and deep fact-based analysis show you the “what-if” to guide your business in new, profitable directions.
Constant changes in marketing techniques and processes is a dizzying and daunting task. Large companies employ whole teams, internally and externally, spending millions to accomplish this. Small and Medium sized businesses (SMBs) don’t always have that luxury.
Let’s work together to design a marketing plan that can be handled in-house, while hiring competent outsiders for a cost-effective plan to meet your growth expectations.
There are idiosyncrasies to the CPG and Beverage sectors that only insiders know. You have to have the right connections to get your product in front of consumers.
This is where experience matters. Having taken products to local and national market, you’ll have a professional by your side, avoiding the common costly pitfalls while gaining maximum traction.
One of the hottest new sectors, opportunities related to cannabis businesses are exciting but oh so frustrating and complicated.
There is no substitute for experience; from the conversion of “trap” brands and products to legal standing, to software, to regulations, to Best Practices, you’ll be in good hands.
Attorneys are the usually the best source to hammer out a complex negotiation, but if your matter isn’t so complex to require a $400/hr lawyer, turn to an experienced business consultant.
You’ll be in good hands to make sure you’re getting a fair outcome on any negotiation, be it with vendors, brokers, employees, or other persons where deal-making is an important piece of your success.
The human condition lends itself to conflict. Almost no relationship is immune to conflict; however, relationships are necessities for life and business.
When a situation seems dicey, call in a dispassionate 3rd party who can diffuse the conflict and lead both parties to a resolution. Call — you’ll be guided by an experienced, trained professional in conflict management.
Sometimes things go wrong. Terribly wrong. If you’re in the deep end, the solution may not be evident.
Step back from the problem, call in an objective 3rd party to help guide the decisions to quell the crisis, with quick and practical remedies.
“He is very creative… thinks outside the box and is able to quickly and efficiently execute, bringing new ideas to fruition.”
~V.R.
“He has always been an absolute professional, provided up-to-date advice and delivered on time and extremely valuable services for every client”
~M.K.
Services
All services are custom tailored to clients’ needs. The nature of services, duration, and rates are discussed before an agreement is made.
However, there are some “package” services that can be purchased and executed quickly.
Business Basics
Strategy
Planning
To build a sturdy house, you start with a good set of plans and a solid foundation. You’d hire a professional for that too.
Your business benefits from experienced insight and planning. So, let’s plan something great, starting with a set of forward-looking financial data and cursory research.
For on-site consultations,
contact directly for an assessment.
Coaching
Consulting
Let’s dive right in and find solutions. Whether it’s one session or many, click to get started. These sessions are carried out by Video or Phone, 30 minutes total, includes 20 minute conversation plus 10 minutes pre/post research.
For on-site consultations,
contact directly for an assessment.
Negotiation
Conflict Resolution
The human condition leads to disagreement. Passion and emotion cloud solutions with employees, peers, vendors, and others. Objective dialog must come from outside that world.
Let’s move forward with a 2-hour remote meeting to start the resolution.
For on-site consultations,
contact directly for an assessment.