Clearly identify what you want, make a plan to achieve it, and then work on that plan every single day. As a business leader, defining your personal and professional goals is the crucial first step. But that clarity alone is insufficient without accountability to drive follow-through. By reviewing your vision daily and diligently measuring progress against milestones, you reinforce commitment over the long-haul. Tracking incremental wins maintains motivation, while never losing sight of the end destination. I advise mapping out 90-day goals that ladder up into larger 3 to 5-year strategic ambitions. This near-term focus enhances agility to evolving conditions, while enabling big picture aspirations. With regular self-check-ins on specific KPIs and time-bound markers, leaders achieve ambitious targets once seeming insurmountable. The accountability mindset is within reach through purposeful planning and consistent review to fulfill your very best.
Grow Your Business
Elevate your view and identify new ways you can scale your business. The most transformative leaders make growing their business an ongoing way of life, not a one-time initiative. They recognize the surging rate of change and disruption in modern markets demands continually expanding perspective. To sustain exponential growth, dedicate time to understand emerging landscapes, while perpetually challenging assumptions on target demographics or new frontiers. An assessment exposing underserved segments or adjacencies may spotlight million-dollar possibilities. Meanwhile, technologies enabling more efficient operations or deeper customer intimacy unlock game-changing potential within existing segments. Maintain an openness to do things radically differently. Listen to outsider views from young and hungry voices. And know that reaching the next inflection means letting go of models that delivered past success when they no longer serve future ambitions. Make elevating your vantage point a non-negotiable, daily habit.
Inspire Your Team
Lead people who are creative, think for themselves and deliver exceptional results. The most influential leaders spark ingenuity and ownership in their people by getting out of the way. Guide with vision and purpose, not commands. Allow team members to take risks and champion ideas without fear of failure or judgment. Recognize outstanding work immediately to motivate excellence as the norm, not the exception. And understand catalysts like professional growth, flexibility and culture enrichment often inspire loyalty over compensation alone. Building a remarkable team means first being the change you want to see. Model relentless curiosity, grit through setbacks and bring heart to all interactions. When people feel valued intrinsically, they pour passion into their contributions. Inspiration stems from compassionate visionaries who lead through service first.
What did you want when you started in business?
Chances are, if you are like most driven entrepreneurs and executives, your initial visions included financial freedom, personal fulfillment, and professional legacy. You imagined finally earning incomes reflecting the value you provide. Enough to afford vacations without financial worry. You saw yourself leading a stellar team of rising talent who feel valued. And having abundant time for family without sacrificing impact and prosperity.
But over months and years of mounting responsibilities, something shifted. Revenue demands eroded work-life balance. Staff turnover from burnout weakened culture. Finances fluctuated with industry changes. Suddenly your reality looked nothing like those early aspirations.
Here’s the crucial insight missing for most leaders - you cannot scale impact and wealth without parallel personal transformation. Because suppressed mindset patterns and behavioral habits become more destructive as organizations grow.
But with conscious self-evolution comes newfound ability to elevate skills like emotional intelligence, communication, and vision-setting. By dedicating consistent time and candid feedback to realize your highest self, your life and leadership transforms.
This ripples into more empowered teams, resonant cultures, and holistic decision-making. Your business becomes a vehicle for abundance and actualization across all facets of life.
If you also happen to be like most people, chances are your current reality doesn’t quite reflect the visions you once had.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
You can work fewer hours, earn more money, have a great team, and create substantial amounts of net wealth.
Click below to gain clarity and take control over the four critical elements of successful businesses - Time, Team, Money, and Future.
Emphasis on the overall operation of your organization and how effectively it’s working. As your business coach, I take a helicopter view of your company to quantify performance across all departments. This allows us to architect processes and infrastructure for sustaining growth while maximizing profitability. We identify unseen bottlenecks and opportunities through data analysis, benchmarking, and interviews. Together we bridge operational gaps with actionable solutions - deploying advanced technologies, upskilling talent, and enhancing workflows. With tailored strategic plans, I empower executives to drive lasting transformation.
Executive Coaching
Working with you or your team to increase performance, communication, and overall skills. Effective leadership determines organizational success. As your executive coach, I unlock the capabilities for C-Suite and directors to inspire peak team productivity. Using DISC and other assessments, we pinpoint and develop strengths around decision-making, communication styles, emotional intelligence, and strategic thinking. Through interviews, we identify challenges related to influence, delegation, and change management. With this clarity, we create professional development plans - with metrics for success - to elevate critical skills like motivational interaction, public speaking gravitas, and talent development.
Strategic Planning
Creates your strategic plan, motivating you to get things done and inspiring participation from your entire team. Even with innovative products and engaged employees, lack of strategic alignment causes organizations to fall short of ambitions. As your strategic planning partner, I facilitate onsite sessions to define 3-5 year vision with executive leadership. We identify catalysts and obstacles to setting bold goals. Then conduct organization-wide surveys and workshops to spark engagement around this north star. The result is a living plan - grounded in market analysis and competitive threats - that rallies your team while providing accountability to leadership. With regular reviews, we course-correct quickly to handle inevitable disruption.
Dan Fleetwood
Business and Executive Coach
Dan Fleetwood is driven by his passion to assist others in making a difference in their business and community. He is a Certified FocalPoint Business and Executive Coach, entrepreneur, and specializes in working with technical service businesses to drive operational efficiencies. Dan’s success comes from his passion for the puzzle. His vision and curiosity empower him to show business leaders the complete picture of what their successful business operations can be.
Prior to becoming a coach, Dan has experience both in the corporate culture of a Fortune 50 company and in the smaller family-owned business. He blends those experiences in service execution, process improvement, and operational structure to provide invaluable insights in his current role as a coach.
The 4 Critical Areas of Business - Time, Team, Money, Future
The basic premise is “We work with business owners on things like time, team, money, and future planning to help eliminate the uncertainty, frustration, and stress of business ownership.”
How can you gain clarity over these four pillars within your business?
With sustained focus and small improvements made over time, it is possible to build a business that gives you more Time, Money, and Freedom.
Our mission is to guide you to bring forth new possibilities never imagined! Eliminating uncertainty, stress, and frustration. Achieving balance in your life, having clarity to take action. And that’s only the beginning. You will experience freedom...the joy you seek... and thrive!
