Your Leadership
Gap Is Costing
You Millions.
I don't coach from theory. I turned around a failing company, built it from chaos to high performance, and sold it for 11x. I'll bring that same experience into your organisation.
Where Do You Need
to Go?
Adam embeds inside your company 2–3 days per week as a Fractional Chief Leadership Officer. Full-scale transformation. Measurable financial outcomes.
For the individual leader who knows they're the bottleneck. Direct, 1:1 coaching to close the gap between where you are and the leader your company needs you to be.
"Everyone offering leadership advice has a framework. I have a track record — I turned around a failing company from the inside and sold it for more than eleven times what I paid for it."
Embedded.
Accountable.
Results in Numbers.
This is not coaching. This is not consulting. This is Adam inside your organization — rebuilding leadership from the ground up as your Fractional Chief Leadership Officer.
- We keep promoting our best operators into management — and it keeps failing
- My leadership team avoids hard conversations and it's killing our culture
- Everything still runs through me — I can't step back
- We're growing fast but the team can't keep up with the pace
- High turnover is bleeding us and I don't fully understand why
The Full Engagement
2–3 days per week inside your organization. Not workshops. Adam is in the room where decisions are made — observing, advising, and course-correcting in real time. This alone separates this engagement from everything else you've tried.
Top-to-bottom assessment and development of every leadership layer — from the owner and CEO down through middle management. Built on a proven model connecting people to mission, accountability, and truth.
Direct, unrestricted access to Adam for the CEO and senior leadership between sessions. Strategic decisions, crisis moments, hiring calls — he's in your corner when it counts most.
Org charts, accountability frameworks, performance metrics, onboarding systems, and leadership playbooks — custom built for your company. You keep everything after the engagement ends.
Success is defined in numbers, not feelings. Baseline metrics are established at the start of every engagement. Every month, results are tracked and reported — turnover rate, revenue per employee, management effectiveness, time-to-decision.
This engagement is limited to ensure full attention and measurable impact. If you're at an inflection point, the conversation starts with a call.
"Adam doesn't show up with a binder and a framework. He shows up on the job site. He's in the room when the hard conversation needs to happen. That's the difference."
How It Works
Full audit of leadership capability, culture health, operational systems, and organizational pain points. Adam goes deep before making any recommendations.
Build the transformation roadmap with the executive team. Align on goals, metrics, and milestones. Everyone knows what success looks like before we begin.
Embedded execution — coaching, system building, culture work, and leadership development at every level of the organization. This is where the real work happens.
Hand off all systems, train internal champions, conduct final measurement, and deliver the outcome report. You leave with a leadership infrastructure that runs without Adam.
The ROI Conversation
Every month you wait, the problem compounds. The manager who avoids hard conversations is still avoiding them. The turnover is still happening. The bottleneck is still you. Leadership dysfunction doesn't plateau — it accelerates. Engagement slots are extremely limited. When they're filled, the next conversation goes on a waitlist.
You Built This.
Now Lead It.
Most founders and operators are exceptional at what they built their business on. But at some point, the technical skill that got you here isn't what takes you further. The work becomes about you.
The Leader Who
Knows They're
the Bottleneck
You're not looking for theory. You're looking for someone who's been where you are — and can help you close the gap between the leader you are and the leader your company needs you to be.
- You're the smartest person in the room and it's starting to hurt the company
- You avoid a few conversations you know you need to have
- You've promoted people who perform well technically but struggle to lead
- You feel the culture shifting and you're not sure what to do about it
- You want accountability, not cheerleading
- You've been burned by coaches who gave you frameworks but not truth
The 3-Month
Engagement
Deep, direct conversations built around what's actually happening in your business and your leadership. No worksheets. No theory. Real decisions, real situations, real feedback.
Text and voice access to Adam between sessions. When the moment arrives — a hard conversation, a hiring decision, a crisis — you have someone who knows your situation in your corner.
At the start of the engagement, we identify the 2–3 leadership behaviors that are costing you the most. Every session is oriented around measurable movement against those gaps.
Adam will tell you the truth — about your blind spots, your avoidance, your communication patterns. This is not a feel-good engagement. It's a results engagement.
The engagement doesn't end when it ends. We close by defining your next horizon — who you need to become, what you're building toward, and how to sustain the growth long after our work together is done.
Personal coaching is limited. This is intentional. The depth of this engagement requires Adam's full attention to your situation.
Real People.
Real Results.
I was stuck, scared, and about to lose my job. Working with Adam was the best decision I could have made. He showed me I had everything I needed already inside me. He taught me how to find leadership within myself. The path became clear — and now my life is better than I ever thought possible.
His vast knowledge and experience in business and leadership has not only helped me streamline my processes, but also elevated my confidence and mentality towards business and success. For being such an accomplished professional, he's a humble and down to earth guy who just wants me to succeed. He has a high degree of integrity and dedication to everyone he works with.
Adam is a wonderful coach. He is great at taking his professional experience and blending it into real world knowledge. His lessons always hit home and make me think. He exudes the energy of a leader and you can see it with his words and actions. He is a great choice for anyone looking for leadership coaching.
A leader creates positive impact upon others and the mission, knows how to direct and organize different types of people on a team, and doesn't need anyone's permission to do so. Adam is that guy. I've learned many aspects of leadership through Adam — from his business and entrepreneurial track record to meeting his family. I'm lucky to have met and learned from him.
"Every CEO or owner I work with gets the same thing: directness, real-world credibility, and a partner who has lived what they're going through — not studied it."
Personal coaching clients come from the same industries Adam knows best — construction, trades, energy, real estate development, and operationally complex businesses in the American West. If that's you, let's talk.
He Didn't Study
the Turnaround.
He Lived It.
"The first day I walked that job site, my feet were bleeding into my boots. Seven years later, I sold the company for more than 11 times what I paid for it."
When Adam took over CDE, there was no purchasing system, no cost controls, no HR, no safety program, no project management, no financial structure — and $5 million in active contracts with 76 people on payroll. The largest job had completely billed and collected for a 200,000 square foot parking garage that hadn't even been built yet. There had been an arson. An OSHA violation. Clients who had been given work at below-cost pricing for years and expected it to continue.
Adam spent the next three years working before his kids woke up and coming home after they were asleep. He built everything from scratch — accountability systems, project management, community partnerships, on-the-job training programs. He won the Congressional Gold Medal of Service to American Veterans. He grew the company to $15 million in new contracts in a single year. He bought it outright. Then he built it for sale — and in 2021, they closed at 11x. By the time the final A/R and retainage came in, the real multiplier was 16x.
That is what he brings into your company.
Built From
The Inside Out
Acquired a company with 76 employees, zero systems, and millions in mismanaged contracts. Rebuilt it completely — leadership culture, accountability systems, mentorship programs, and operational playbooks — from scratch.
Managed a live sales pipeline of up to $94 million while executing a full financial and cultural recovery simultaneously. Every decision had a direct P&L consequence. There were no hypotheticals.
Developed leaders across every level — apprentice to executive. Built mentorship and accountability systems that actually scaled. Tied leadership development directly to financial outcomes: turnover, revenue per employee, and company valuation.
Developed workforce programs with 126 community partners and created an award-winning on-the-job training model. Navigated ownership transitions, surety bonds, banking relationships, and an eventual company sale at 11x purchase price.
Why This Isn't
Like The Last Coach
You Hired
- Comes from HR, academia, or corporate consulting
- Charges by the hour for frameworks and advice
- Delivers a binder. Runs a workshop. Disappears.
- Has studied leadership failure — never lived it
- Defines success in feelings and engagement scores
- Advises from the outside — never shares the risk
- Built, operated, and sold a multi-million dollar company
- Charges for transformation and outcomes — not hours
- Embeds inside your organization. The risk of failure is shared.
- Has lived leadership failure — and reversed it in real time
- Defines success in numbers: turnover, revenue, valuation
- Fractional CLO — he's in the room, not in your inbox
The Conversation
Starts with a Call
Engagements are limited. If you're at an inflection point and ready to invest in transformation that shows up in your numbers, let's talk.