Make the Leap
Coaching Small Business Owners through Uncertainty and Change.
10,000
Boomers retire
every day
According to recent Forbes research
19%
of them own
small businesses
That's 2,000 businesses a day looking for new owners.
90+%
are without
successors
The vast majority of the next generation do not want to run the business…
Our Mission
We coach small business owners and their leadership teams to become better business operators through periods of uncertainty and change. The result is a higher valuation for your business and a 4X minimum ROI.
Business owners have great vision - but they are in constant need of 3 things:
• a roadmap
• trustworthy, capable leaders
• profit to fuel the engineIt is our mission at LEAP Business Advisors to equip owners and key leaders with practical systems to achieve peak profitability and avoid falling into the capability trap that many second and third generation business owners experience during a leadership transition.
Testimonials
"LEAP coaching has taught me how to flex my management style so that I can work more effectively with key leaders, especially within my own company. This is paying tremendous dividends for me as I look to develop 3 key areas: growing profits, becoming a more connected leader, and empowering my leaders with the autonomy they need for their own development.What I appreciate most about Kurt’s work is that he establishes trust and connections with people, leading to more genuine insights and tangible impacts.I just really like these guys".
– Scott Jones,
President, The Air Purification Company
"Kurt has had a profoundly positive impact on my leadership journey! His encouragement of frequent open conversations with my employees, has built a foundation of trust and understanding that can hopefully prevent more difficult crucial conversations down the road. This shift has been helpful in cultivating a supportive and communicative work environment".
– Ann Schipper,
Principal, Data Power Technology Group
"Kurt was the pivotal resource in our hospital’s physician relationship program. He was a trusted source of information-- our own “information highway” to our various provider resources so the costly misstep of miscommunication was minimized.If you are strengthening existing ties or building new ones, Kurt is the person suited to the task".
– Charles Cavagnaro,
Interim President, UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital
About making the leap
The LEAP Program
(6) core offerings geared toward small business owners experiencing volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) times. Choose the option(s) that best support your current needs.
1-1 CEO/Owner Advising
LEAP CEO ™ is a regular cadence of 1-1 coaching calls between the CEO/majority owner of the company and one of our executive advisors. As CEOs, problems invariably evolve and often intensify. The upside is that the solutions you find become increasingly profitable.
LEAP 101™ Executive Mastermind
LEAP 101™ is a LEAP Advisor facilitated, series of monthly remote group calls among your internal executive leadership team. This 5-month program is designed to arm the next generation of executive team leader with the foundational skills they will need to lead high performance teams.
Strategic Off-Site Facilitation
1-1 prep calls with key leaders, character strengths assessment, leadership team SWOT Analysis, followed by a 1.5-day strategic off-site, and post meeting follow-on plan.
LEAP 201™ Executive Mastermind
LEAP 201™ is a series of LEAP Advisor facilitated, remote peer group calls among "transitioning out" CEOs in mastermind format. This bi-weekly ongoing program is designed for owners that are still playing a big part in the company's success, but are planning to change their title, and day-to-day focus.
Meeting Facilitation
(LAM)™ Facilitation is a regular cadence of bi-weekly leadership accountability meetings, expertly facilitated by LEAP Advisors. These meetings will help your team stay aligned and connected on top issues facing the company.
LEAP 301™ Executive Mastermind
LEAP 301™ is a series of LEAP Advisor facilitated, remote peer group calls among "transitioning in" CEOs in mastermind format. This bi-weekly ongoing program is designed for newly minted equity owners that are eager to learn best practices from other new CEOs going through similar challenges.
LEAP Business Advisors CEO
Kurt Zelch
Kurt is the Founder and CEO of LEAP Business Advisors, a Boston-based business transition advisory firm. Kurt specializes in guiding owners of closely held businesses and their senior executives through periods of change, focusing on enhancing team performance and executive alignment. He has over 18 years of experience in business transition advising from his time spent as an insurance broker in the Boston area, to his many years assisting private physician groups with succession planning in Northern Worcester County. Kurt takes a humanistic, psychology-based approach to solving business problems. His work as a business transition advisor addresses key areas of management and operations, such as mastering communication with 4 generations in the workforce, mastering organizational capability, and facilitating mutual gains negotiations.Kurt graduated from Bryant University with a BS in Marketing and continues to be a lifelong learner. He has gained professional certificates in Executive Leadership Principles and The Trinity of Management (TOM) ™ from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Sirolli Institute.He works predominantly with high-profit industries such as commercial HVAC manufacturer's rep firms, industrial equipment value added resellers, modular construction, and healthcare services. Kurt's approach involves deeply understanding his clients' priorities, building trust, and delivering exceptional value through his 1-1 advising and leadership accountability meeting facilitation.
Partners
Peter L Gosline
Executive and Team Coaching – Peter is a former hospital CEO, now working as a certified executive and team coach. He works with high achievers, mostly healthcare executives and physician leaders who wish to expand their influence, initiate a role change or manage challenges involving people, programs, and behaviors.Read more
Jim Henderson
Jim's work strategy encompasses combining proven industrial/systems engineering techniques with innovative practices and tools to uncover and address profitability. Killing profit vampires; engineering programs and business 'engines' so they are profitable; and ensuring the capital needed is there.Read More
Ernesto Sirolli
Dr. Ernesto Sirolli is one of the world' s leading consultants on the topic of economic development. He started working in the field of International Aid in Africa in 1971 and has since worked in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, Latin America and Asia in projects that promote local entrepreneurship and local self determination. Dr. Sirolli resides in California, USA where he was invited to establish the Sirolli Institute, a social enterprise that teaches:- civic leaders to capture the passion energy and imagination of their own citizens
- corporations to empower local entrepreneurs to create local wealth
- entrepreneurs to form passionate teams capable to transform dreams into viable enterprises.Read more
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