Wednesday, May 4, 2016.  10:00am – 11:00am PST.   A Mighty Webinar.

Many founders, entrepreneurs and business executives dream of leading a high-growth company.  Then they get the chance, and as the rocket passes Mach 2, they notice the tiles cracking and falling off the rocket, and the ship starts shaking.  Uh-oh.

Leading a high-growth company into and through midsized is both exciting and difficult; it is full of risk.  This talk, drawn from four of the chapters of the speaker’s book, Mighty Midsized Companies: How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers, explains how to avoid the growth impediments that can bring down these firms in painful, awful spectacles.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016.  10:00am – 11:00am PST.   A Mighty Webinar.

At the core of the most successful midsized companies is a stellar leadership team. With such a “dream team” in place, a midsized firm can deliver profitable growth, year after year, in good times and bad. However, when even one member of the team is dysfunctional, a midsized company can’t hope to have a dream team. They don’t have the luxury of a large leadership team to support weak links in the executive chain.  This presentation drawn from four of the chapters of the speaker’s book, Mighty Midsized Companies: How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016.  10:00am – 11:00am PST.   A Mighty Webinar.

Many companies capture their strategies in a strategic plan and develop a budget for where the money should go.  But sometimes during the year it’s not invested in the business at all, and sits in the bank, idle.  Other times, it gets mis-directed.  Having a strategy and a budget isn’t enough—there is a gap.

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Tuesday, December 8, 2015.   San Francisco, CA.   Robert Half Management Resources.   Winning the Talent War.

How can companies in the Bay area compete for limited human resources? How can they attract and hire prime candidates when mega companies with deep pockets in their neighborhood can easily outbid them for those leading candidates?

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015.    Tucson, AZ.    FEI Group.
Mighty Midsized Companies: How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers

This is an industry conference for the nation’s largest and finest network of interior finish contractors and industry showrooms.  FEI Group is the leader in providing programs and services to independent business owners looking to leverage the power of the group to better serve their customers.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015.    Sacramento, CA.   Financial Executives International.  Professional Development Class.

Many companies capture their strategies in a strategic plan and develop a budget for where the money should go.  But sometimes during the year it’s not invested in the business at all, and sits in the bank, idle.  Other times, it gets mis-directed.  Having a strategy and a budget isn’t enough—there is a gap.

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Thursday, October 8, 2015.    San Francisco, CA.   Bay Area Financial Officers Group.

Many companies capture their strategies in a strategic plan and develop a budget for where the money should go.  But sometimes during the year it’s not invested in the business at all, and sits in the bank, idle.  Other times, it gets mis-directed.  Having a strategy and a budget isn’t enough—there is a gap.

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Thursday, November 19, 2015.    Los Angeles, CA.    Financial Executives International.
Mighty Midsized Companies: How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers

For an executive team, the excitement of leading a steadily or rapidly growing midsized firm can be exhilarating – that is, until growth grinds down to a halt. In this presentation, Robert Sher explores based on his years of research on more than 100 companies how seven silent growth killers have derailed midsized firms. He then shows how executives can overcome or avoid them altogether.

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015.    San Francisco, CA.   7:30am – 11:30am

Many mid-market CEOs sell their companies for far less than what they’d hoped for because they hadn’t prepared for the “Exit Day.” One such firm started in the early 1980’s and grew into an industry leader. After scorning an exit opportunity in 2007 (4X EBITDA wasn’t enough), in 2011 the business was sold in distress for just enough cash to pay off the bank plus seller-financed debt, which is now in default. The owners walked away from 30 years of toil with only their memories.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015.    Downtown San Francisco, CA.   7:30am – 5:00pm

“Our middle managers could use training on how to be great manager.”  If this statement rings true, this seminar may be a good fit for your managers.

CEOs and their C-suite can’t lift their companies to the next level when the middle management isn’t trained and ready to step up.  We’ve had numerous requests for high quality middle management training, and so we’ve turned to the Ken Blanchard Companies, who deliver top quality management training to the Fortune 500 companies.  I’ve tapped one of their top trainers, Ron Sacchi, to deliver their core management training program for our midsized company clients. 

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