Summit Business Guides
THE WAY TO SUCCESS
Cultivating a business framework focused on delivering Industry Leading results is not as challenging is you think.
It’s Time For A Dynamic Change:
Ryan Howe significantly aids business owners in transitioning from working in the business to working on their business by leveraging his expertise in business strategy and process optimization. By guiding business owners to build systems and delegate effectively, Ryan helps them focus on strategic growth, leadership, and long-term planning, thus allowing them to elevate their role from operational tasks to visionary business development.
Finding Your Purpose:
Aligning your personal values with your business mission. This alignment not only fuels motivation but also resonates with customers and employees, fostering a strong brand identity. Discovering your purpose might involve introspection, engagement with mentors, or revisiting why you started your business, ensuring that your work contributes to something larger than profit.
Growing a Business:
Growth involves more than just increasing sales; it’s about scaling operations efficiently. This can be achieved by expanding your customer base, enhancing product or service offerings, and investing in technology or human resources. Strategic partnerships and marketing strategies play pivotal roles in scaling up, ensuring that growth is sustainable and aligned with the business’s long-term goals.
Planning Your Exit Strategy:
An exit strategy is vital for any business owner. Whether you’re contemplating retirement, selling to a larger corporation, or passing the business to family, planning this transition early can maximize the value of your business. It involves understanding the business’s worth, preparing financials for due diligence, and considering different exit options like merger, acquisition, or IPO to align with your personal and financial objectives.
Ryan Howe
Summit Business Guides
Lose frustration. Gain Freedom.
Cultivating a business framework focused on delivering Industry Leading results is not as challenging is you think.
Born and raised in West Michigan, I’ve spent 25+ years developing leaders, managers, supervisors, & staff to achieve exceptional results.
I’ve had to make the tough decisions on who to keep, who to let go, and what work to walk away from. I help leaders of small & mid-sized organizations break through the day-to-day firefighting & achieve the results they’ve always thought possible.
Together we can discover your Pinnacle:
People + Purpose + Playbook + Performance = Profit
I can help you.
Topics For Success
People
Surrounding yourself with the right people is a necessity. To embark on this journey, you’ll need to carefully select your team. Pick people who will help raise you up, and remove people who slow you down. A unified team working toward a common goal will always get further than even the most motivated individual.
Playbook
“Just wing it” is bad advice when scaling a mountain, and it’s bad advice for business. Developing a clear-cut plan for everything you do will keep things running smoothly. Devise a strategy for business operations, meetings, and everything else you do, and keep it consistent.
Profit
A great strategy builds momentum over time, continuing to get better, faster, and cheaper. With the right people, a clearly defined purpose, a detailed playbook, and consistent performance, profits are nearly inevitable. Sir Edmund Hillary once said, “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” (And as one of the first people to climb Mt. Everest, we think he’d know.)
Purpose
The climb to the top requires some serious thinking. You have to figure out what you’re really all about, and what makes you different. How do you stand out from the crowd? What are you bringing to the table that nobody else can provide? What story are you telling with your work? This insight will help to develop the strategy you need for the journey.
Performance
Actions really do speak louder than words. Even the best plan is useless without follow-through. You don’t have to get it all done in a day, but focus on incremental improvement and keep track as it happens. Only consistent practice can lead to exceptional performance.
