Grow And Succeed With
A Strategic Business Leader Coach
If you are a leader, owner, professional, or entrepreneur, Strategic Business Leader coaching is designed to help you grow your business and reach your vision of great success.
A Strategic Business Leader coach will use their business expertise and deep experience and our world-class coaching platform, planning and implementation processes, and trove of knowledge tools to offer you:
An unbiased, expert perspective on the steps you can take for greater success.
A unique planning and execution-based coaching approach that helps you create your vision of success and aligns your focus on what will help you reach your vision.
Smart thinking and tools to help you be most productive.
A sounding board for tackling important issues and opportunities.
Knowledge and understanding of what works and what doesn’t work gained from helping many business leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, and businesses.
A strategic business plan with goals, strategies, and action steps leading to to your vision.
A focus on best practices and SOPs to help you work on your business rather than in it and to grow the value of the business.
Expertise in and a format for setting Key Performance Indicators to help you measure and manage progress.
Accountability for your goals.
A reliable, confidential, and ongoing partner who encourages and supports you.
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What our clients say.
"Amazing guidance on business plans, budgeting, strategic plans and much much more."
"A wealth of knowledge when it comes to helping you to plan out your business."
"My business tripled."
"Helped me understand how to let go of the extraneous and reach for what is really important in my business."
"If you are looking for a solid action plan and want to get focused."
"Amazing guidance on business plans, budgeting, strategic plans and much much more." "A wealth of knowledge when it comes to helping you to plan out your business." "My business tripled." "Helped me understand how to let go of the extraneous and reach for what is really important in my business." "If you are looking for a solid action plan and want to get focused."
"Great at helping you trouble-shoot when you are feeling stuck."
"An invaluable resource for getting my company past the start-up phase."
"Knew when to prod me and when to praise me."
"Helped me see the tracks to run my business on."
"Grow in the right direction."
"Great at helping you trouble-shoot when you are feeling stuck." "An invaluable resource for getting my company past the start-up phase." "Knew when to prod me and when to praise me." "Helped me see the tracks to run my business on." "Grow in the right direction."
"Gives me the opportunity to work on my business instead of in it."
"Holds me accountable to my goals and guides me toward them."
"Gave me ideas and directions that should sustain me for years to come."
"Can easily change the trajectory of your business."
"Task you with becoming a better version of you."
"Gives me the opportunity to work on my business instead of in it." "Holds me accountable to my goals and guides me toward them." "Gave me ideas and directions that should sustain me for years to come." "Can easily change the trajectory of your business." "Task you with becoming a better version of you."
Here’s what you get.
Bridge to success.
PERSPECTIVE, COUNSEL AND ACCOUNTABILITY. We give you an outside perspective, objective counsel, and accountability in a safe, confidential environment.
GREAT STRATEGY AND EXECUTION. We help you think strategically, create a vision of future success, identify barriers to achieving your vision, develop an effective business model, identify strategic goals and strategies to move toward your vision, and create and execute an implementation plan for achieving the goals and strategies.
CUSTOMER GROWTH. We guide you in developing, refining, and executing a reliable and productive client/customer development process.
A SOUND OPERATING BASIS. We provide you with knowledge of important principles involved with building and running a successful business.
PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISION SUPPORT. We offer you a superior way to spot problems and issues, identify weak points and blind spots, gain guidance on working through complex problems quickly, and get support when you are faced with difficult decisions.
FRAMEWORKS AND TOOLS. From our years of working with leaders and businesses and our management education, we can introduce many frameworks, concepts, and tools to help you grow and succeed. Examples: Action Steps, Anchoring, Avatars, the Balanced Scorecard, the Base Rate, Bayesian inference, the Black Swan, Blue Ocean, Brainstorming, the Business Model, Change Management, the CLIME Model, the COI process, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Communications Theory, Consensus, Consultative Selling, Debiasing, the Fast Track Strategic Planning System, Forecasting, Gap Planning, the Healthy Organization framework, Hypotheses, the iDECIDE framework, Incentives, KPIs, the Kubler-Ross Change Curve, the Law of Strategic Difficulty, Logic Model, Managing Choice, Mission, Network Brokerage, Objectives, the OODA Loop, Opportunity Cost, the Pre-Mortem, Prospect Theory, Positioning Theory, Project Management, Risk Management, the S Curve Model of Change, Scaling, Scenario Planning, Strategic Foresight, Strategic Initiatives, Strategies, Shared Values, the Success Branding process, SWOT Analysis, Systems Theory, TQM, Value Proposition, Vision, and Wide Thinking.
THE BASIS FOR ON-GOING SUCCESS. We advise you on building structures, accountability, and support that will ensure sustained commitment and ongoing success.
SATISFACTION. We help you get greater satisfaction from your business and adapt it to your lifestyle and personal goals.
Focus to advocacy.
BETTER FOCUS. A business coach can help you see the big picture and then focus on the specific areas that need your immediate attention.
CRYSTAL-CLEAR GOAL SETTING. Setting goals is a critical part of success. A business coach can help you think more strategically to see how every move you make puts you one step closer to your goals.
MORE ACCOUNTABILITY. In addition to helping you set your goals, a good business coach will hold you accountable for following through on the things you need to do to achieve those goals. Fruitful brainstorming: It can be difficult to see all of the different ways to tackle a problem by yourself. A business coach can be a sounding board and a creative thinker who has ideas that you never would have considered.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT. Business coaching can be instrumental beyond just growing your business. The skills you will learn and knowledge you have will gained will help you grow as a person, as well.
EXPERIENCE. An experienced business coach has seen it all—the good, the bad, and the ugly. You simply can’t discount the wisdom that comes from years of working with so many different types of companies and other organizations, and business owners, leaders, executives, professionals and entrepreneurs from all walks of life.
KNOWLEDGE. You may be expert on the content of your business. A business coach is expert on building a successful business. A business coach educates and upskills you to make you a better leader and business person.
IMPROVED PROFITABILITY. A business coach can help you redirect your efforts and your business to what most contributes to profitability and can help you adapt to the changing economy.
SMART FINANCIAL PLANNING. A business coach can help you with everything from developing a budget to pricing new services.
AN ADVOCATE. Working with a business coach puts an advocate in your corner every step of the way along your road to success.
Deep relationship.
ONE-ON-ONE COACHING RELATIONSHIP:
We meet to get to know one another and determine compatibility, begin to develop an understanding of your situation and goals, and provide information on our coaching process.
We agree on the initial length of engagement (at least three to six months and ideally a year are recommended for meaningful progress and to instill processes and good habits) and frequency of meetings (3-4 meetings a month are recommended to maintain momentum).
We have you complete a thorough intake questionnaire and provide more information on your business, position and or practice.
We begin regular meetings in which we document our discussions as we develop your plan and actions steps, work through your challenges and opportunities, set goals, track your progress, share business processes, tools and resources to help you plan, implement and measure results, and provide support and accountability.
GROUP COACHING RELATIONSHIP, IN A STRATEGIC BUSINESS LEADER GROUP:
We meet to get to know one another, develop an understanding of your situation, and provide information on our coaching process.
You complete an intake questionnaire in which you offer thoughts about your vision of great success and goals. Then you meet with your coach to develop your plan and implementation action steps.
You meet monthly in 3 - 3.5 hour meetings with 3 - 11 business peers. Here’s a typical meeting agenda:
Introductions/check-in (what's on your mind?) 8:30 - 9:00
Open session. Each member raises a current problem and/or opportunity for feedback 9:00 - 9:40
Topics for group consideration: Presentations and discussion 9:40 - 10:20 (Examples: achieving long-term success; developing good habits; productivity; goal setting; KPIs.)
"Hot Seat” in which a member gets deep input from the group on a key business issue or opportunity 10:20-11:00
One-on-ones and accountability calls 11:00-11:15 Pairing of group members for weekly accountability calls.
Commitments 11:15-Noon Members report progress on 30-day accountability goals and commit to new 30-day goals.
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Pick your coach
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Rod Bourn
Rod is founder and Lead Ninja of Down Set Lead. He helps leaders, professionals, and organizations get unstuck and grow into what they want to be. That happens though coaching, executive trips and retreats, training, and facilitating mentoring programs.
Rod manages continuing education curriculum and specializes in workforce development and contract training. He coordinates large conferences and events, including fundraisers and galas. Rod also serves as Project Director (through CCBC) of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Baltimore program.
Rod is the author of Down Set Lead!, a guide to the chronology of team leadership, written especially for young professionals, all with a football motif and a few movie quotes thrown in for good measure. Rod shares this methodology for creating a well-oiled, high-performing team.
As a Strategic Business Leader coach, Rod is able to leverage his diverse experience and deep knowledge to help owners, professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs be more successful.
Rod earned his MS in Organizational Development from The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and his BS in Business Administration from Towson University.
Email Rod at RodB@StrategicBusinessLeader.com or give him a call at 443-286-9109..
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Lee Crumbaugh
Business coach and strategy consultant Lee Crumbaugh, SMP, CEO of Forrest Consulting since 1988, has helped 100s of companies, associations, non-profits, leaders, owners, and entrepreneurs be more successful. His mission is to help leaders and professionals achieve their vision of great success by developing and implementing strategic plans.
Armed with a University of Chicago MBA and a University of Illinois communications degree, Lee has been a leader in banking, associations, publishing, and philanthropy. He has launched a publishing company and a business group as well as his consulting and coaching firm.
Lee is past president of the Association for Strategic Planning (now the International Association for Strategy Professionals), co-founder of the International Association of Facilitators’ Chicago Chapter, a certified Strategic Management Professional, and author of two books, BIG DECISIONS: 40 disastrous decisions and thousands of research studies tell us how to make a great decision when it really matters and AHEAD: Strategy is the way to a better future, and a blog, Strategic Thinking & Strategic Action.
He has two children and three grandchildren. In 2016, he relocated to Annapolis, Maryland, from Chicago..
A 10-time Ironman and 60-marathon finisher, Lee now runs shorter distances and coaches runners. Also, he sails on the Chesapeake Bay and paddles with the Annapolis Dragon Boat Club.
Contact Lee at LeeC@StrategicBusinessLeader.com or give him a call at 630-730-9619.
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Nancy Kobel
Nancy is an accredited coach with the International Coach Federation, bringing over a decade of coaching expertise and more than two decades of facilitation experience to her role. Specializing in coaching leaders across diverse sectors, including Fortune 100 companies, private enterprises, consulting firms, government agencies, small businesses, and startups, Nancy has made a significant impact in cultivating effective leadership.
As a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, Nancy draws on the transformative principles of Dr. Brené Brown's empirically based courage-building program, Dare to Lead™. Her commitment to fostering courage and authenticity in leadership positions her as a sought-after professional in the coaching realm.
Nancy began her career as an engineer for NASA. After completing her Masters, Nancy transitioned to developing engineering managers. She expanded her career into Leadership Development, Organizational Development, and Executive Coaching.
Having worked with clients such as NASA, NOAA, NIH, Department of the Interior, Kimley-Horn, Chief, BetterUp, SkillSoft, ASRC Federal, Northrup Grumman, and more, Nancy brings a wealth of experience and insight to her coaching practice.
Nancy holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland and an MA in Instructional Systems Development from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Beyond her professional endeavors, she is an avid paddleboarder and actively contributes to the community by serving on the board of the Live Water Foundation in Annapolis, MD. The foundation facilitates watersports programs to support veterans, underprivileged and disabled youth, and advocates for clean water education.
Email Nancy at NancyK@StrategicBusinessLeader.com or give her a call at 443-286-9109.
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Susan Ostrowski
Susan is a business coach and consultant. She helps clients by leveraging her proven success in driving sales, marketing. and international business development, her interpersonal skills, and her expertise in areas including P&L management, budget administration, project and program management. cross-functional team leadership, and relationship building.
Susan has large- and small-company experience with organizations operating in medical devices, consumer health care, pharma, chemicals, and global public health. including Pfizer Global Health, The Female Health Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and BASF Corporation.
She earned her BS in Chemical Engineering at the University of Akron. chaired the United Nations’ Africa Reproductive Health Initiative, served as an executive Board member for the Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates, and was awarded the Healthcare Businesswoman’s Association Rising Star Award in 2011. For the past five years, she has been a US Small Business Administration SCORE mentor.
Her firm, Syrena Holdings, is based in Annapolis, Maryland. Susan lives with her husband in Maryland and has a beach shack in Delaware. She is conversant in German and Spanish.
Email Susan at SusanO@StrategicBusinessLeader.com or give her a call at 862-812-2616.
Pick your Strategic Business Leader coaching format.
Strategic Business Leader one-on-one coaching for owners, leaders, and professionals.
Intensive one-on-one coaching sessions
For business owners, partners, executives or professionals whose businesses are going concerns
Video or face-to-face
An average of 10 hours of coaching every two months
Typically 3 to 4 1.5 hour sessions a month
By mutual agreement, session length and frequency may vary based on client need to include longer 2.5 to 3 hour “sprint” planning sessions and shorter 1.0 hour accountability sessions
Annual strategic business plan
In-session goal setting and accountability
Session notes after the session
Free unlimited access to coach by text, email, or phone
$890 per month
Minimum three-month commitment
Strategic Business Leader group coaching for business or non-profit teams.
Monthly group sessions
For business or non-profit leadership teams
Video or face-to-face
3-10 team members
3.0 hours a month
Session notes after the session
Free access to coach (with limits) by phone. text or email
$225 per month per team member for businesses; $185 a month per team member for non-profits
Minimum three-month commitment
Strategic Business Leader one-on-one coaching for entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders.
Intensive one-on-one coaching sessions
For entrepreneurs, those with small new businesses, and leaders of small non-profits
Video or face-to-face
An average of 6 hours of coaching every two months
Typically 3 to 4 1.0 hour sessions a month
By mutual agreement, session length and frequency may vary based on client need to include longer 2 to 2.5 hour “sprint” planning sessions and shorter 1.0 hour accountability sessions
Annual strategic business plan
In-session goal setting and accountability
Session notes after the session
Free access (with limits) to coach by text, email, or phone
$655 per month
Minimum three-month commitment
Annual or start-up business plan creation for small-business leader use.
Annual or start-up business plan (vision, strategic gaps, goals, strategies, annual action steps, and KPIs), to set a path to greater success and business growth
Video or face-to-face, plus between-meeting research and drafting
One time
Approximately 16 hours annual, 32 hours start-up
$3,370 for business owners, executives or professionals whose businesses are going concerns; $6,735 for entrepreneurs, sole proprietors, and others starting new businesses
Discounts for non-profits
For medium -size and larger business, please ask for a quote.
Strategic Business Leader group coaching for business owners, leaders and professionals.
Monthly group coaching sessions
For business owners, partners, executives or professionals, and non-profit leaders (not for start-up entrepreneurs)
Video or face-to-face
4-12 group members meet monthly in a coached session for 3.5 hours
Annual strategic business plan
In-session goal setting and accountability
Weekly 1-1 accountability engagements with other members of the group
Quarterly individual coaching sessions
Monthly session notes after the session
Free access to coach (with limits) by text. email, or phone
$260 per month
Minimum three-month commitment
Annual or start-up business plan creation for external use.
Annual or start-up business plan (vision, strategic gaps, goals, strategies and action steps), for use to “tell and sell” investors and others about the business,
Please ask for quote
The Benefits of Joining a Coached Group
The Strategic Business Leader Group Coaching Program offers group members a dozen solid benefits...for just $225 a month. If you had to obtain the benefits separately, they could cost you upwards of $7,000 a year just for the equivalent individual coaching sessions and plan development.
To take your business to the next level. why not jump into a group of like-minded leaders and professionals, led by an experienced coach, to develop and execute your plan for greater success, while gaining strongly supportive relationships and learning and applying best business practices?