We help our clients achieve higher exit valuations.
We’re deeply committed to helping you get more for your business.
What makes us different
Tackle the Complex
We get complex B2B sales — long cycles, big stakes, and trust-driven deals. Our strategies are built for selling expertise, not widgets.
Transformation, Not Tinkering
Real growth takes more than upgrades — it takes a new way of thinking. We help leaders reinvent what their business is, how it grows, and where it’s going next.
Revenue Engine Focused
Sales and marketing are where growth happens. We align your revenue strategy with execution to unlock measurable results.
Think Like Owners
We’ve led businesses ourselves, so we get the pressure and the tradeoffs. Our advice is bold, but always grounded in what it really takes to get things done.
In the Trenches
No handoffs, no walkaways. We embed as executive coaches, fractional leaders, and hands-on partners to see change through.
Growth Curve Specialists
We help you spot your next growth curve — and go after it with clarity and confidence. New markets, sharp positioning, bold moves.
Our Team
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Leary Gates
FOUNDER & Business Growth Strategy
Leary Gates helps business leaders see what’s next and build toward it with intention.For more than 30 years, Leary has advised CEOs and leadership teams on how to discover their next growth curve and lead through the strategic and leadership shifts that growth requires. His work spans technology, manufacturing, and professional services, serving both emerging companies and Fortune 1000 firms.
Leary specializes in helping leaders step back from incremental optimization and see their business differently; clarifying market focus, shaping bold offers, and building the leadership capacity needed to sustain transformation. He is known for combining strategic rigor with practical insight, helping leaders move from ambiguity to confident direction.
He is the co-founder of Coefficient, the value design firm for technology and professional services companies, and writes regularly on strategy and leadership through the Strategic CEO Substack, where he explores how leaders navigate complexity, transformation, and growth.
John Moroney
Sales Strategy
John helps organizations build predictable, scalable growth by strengthening how strategy turns into revenue execution.
John is a master at helping companies define their “sales recipe”—the repeatable system that enables consistent commercial performance through both startup and transformation phases. He works with leadership teams to align go-to-market strategy, sales execution, and operational discipline around what actually drives growth.He brings deep, hands-on experience across enterprise software, medtech, and semiconductor industries, having sold, managed, and led sales organizations as well as overseen manufacturing operations. This dual perspective allows John to bridge strategy, sales, and execution in a way few leaders can.
At the core of his work is a focus on clarity and discipline: helping teams understand how they create value, how they sell it, and how to scale both intentionally. John partners with CEOs and leadership teams to translate strategic intent into a revenue engine that performs reliably as the business moves into its next growth curve.
Jack Nicholson
Executive Coach
Jack helps executive leaders strengthen the human side of leadership required for real transformation.
For more than 25 years, Jack has helped growing organizations navigate the human dynamics of executive leadership, equipping leaders to guide constructive change, work through conflict, build trust, and unlock creativity and innovation. His work focuses on developing the inner capacity leaders need to lead well when complexity, pressure, and change are high.
Jack brings a deep understanding of how transformation actually happens for individuals, teams, and organizations. He holds advanced degrees in human and organizational systems, counseling, and theology, and has spent his career studying and practicing the disciplines that enable lasting change, not just improved performance.
He is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Transformed Leader and the co-author of The Human Operating System: Recovering the Heart and Soul of Your Leadership, where he explores how leaders align who they are with how they lead to create healthier, more effective organizations.
Rob Murray
Executive Coach
Rob Murray helps leaders build the inner strength, clarity, and alignment required to lead well in complexity, pressure, and change.
He works with executives and leadership teams who are outwardly successful but internally stretched, helping them address the unseen dynamics that quietly limit trust, energy, and execution. His work focuses on developing emotionally healthy, mission-anchored leadership that holds up when the stakes are real.
Shaped by a global upbringing in South Africa, Rob brings a deep sensitivity to culture, context, and human systems. His approach is experiential and integrative, engaging both head and heart to move leaders beyond insight into embodied, lasting change.
Rob is the co-founder and CEO of Transformed Leader and co-author ofThe Human Operating System: Recovering the Heart and Soul of Your Leadership. He serves as an executive coach, facilitator, and speaker for leaders committed to aligning who they are with how they lead without losing performance, conviction, or humanity.
Mike Swenson
Market - Customer - Product research
Mike Swenson helps organizations ground strategic decisions in a deep, accurate understanding of their market and customers.
Mike brings a rare combination of market insight, analytical rigor, and real-world research practice to help leadership teams align their products and capabilities with what buyers actually value. He works closely with CEOs and executive teams to uncover customer needs, test assumptions, and clarify where opportunity truly exists.
His work spans qualitative and quantitative research methods, including executive interviews, focus groups, surveys, and advanced text and data analysis. Mike has moderated discussions with participants ranging from frontline workers to C-suite executives, helping organizations surface insights that inform strategy, product direction, and growth decisions.
Previously, Mike served as an industry analyst at IDC and helped build CIO Magazine’s CIO Executive Council. His research and advisory work has supported new service launches, influenced M&A decisions, and guided companies—from startups to Fortune 100 firms—through pivotal strategic choices.
