Personalized
Business
Coaching
Evaluate, Elevate, Exit, Your Business Successfully
Experience the power
of personalized
business coaching
designed to enhance your business and elevate your personal performance
to new heights.
Approach
I believe that every one of us is created with unique, God-given potential and a calling to make an impact. My purpose is to empower you to unlock that potential. Through our personalized business coaching partnership, we will tackle challenges, set clear goals, and pave the way to a success that fulfills your purpose and honors God. Let's embark on this journey together.
Lee Armfield
My focus is on growth. We will work to develop strong servant leadership, apply strategies that build a lasting success for all areas of your life -- both in your professional calling and in your personal life.
Services
Business coaching services are designed to help you build a thriving business that reflects your faith and a life that fulfills your purpose.
Leadership Development
Lead with Confidence
Refine your leadership skills, improve both personal and team performance, and support business success through effective leadership development.
Strategic Planning
Strategize for Success
Elevate your success by implementing well-defined strategies, establishing realistic goals, and achieving sustainable growth through strategic planning that is tailored to align with your business and life visions.
Team Building
Foster Collaboration
Cultivate personal and team trust, refine communication skills, and enhance productivity by implementing clear plans and agreements that promote a cohesive and successful team dynamic.
Methodology
My business coaching practice is built upon a proven perspective designed to help you maximize your business's potential and achieve your long-term goals. I call it Evaluate, Elevate, Exit and it's rooted in principles of stewardship and purpose.
Consistently utilizing the Evaluate, Elevate, Exit perspective helps us build a holistic foundation for your business journey, from understanding your current state to achieving your ultimate business and personal vision.
Evaluate
Using the Evaluate perspective, we take a deep dive into your current business operations. This involves a comprehensive assessment to understand your strengths, identify areas for improvement, and pinpoint any obstacles hindering your growth. We'll analyze your financials, operational efficiency, market position, team dynamics, and existing strategies. Our goal here is to gain a clear, objective picture of where your business stands today and lay the groundwork for targeted improvements.
Elevate
As we have a thorough understanding of your business through evaluation, we then use the Elevate perspective. This is where we work collaboratively to implement strategic changes and optimize your business for peak performance. We'll develop tailored action plans focused on enhancing profitability, streamlining processes, developing leadership skills, and fostering a strong company culture. This perspective is about implementing practical, impactful solutions that drive sustainable growth and prepare your business for future opportunities.
Exit
The third perspective, Exit, is about preparing your business for a successful transition, whether that's through a sale, succession planning, or scaling to a point where you can step back while the business continues to thrive. I'll work with you to build a valuable, transferable asset, ensuring your business is attractive to potential buyers or capable of operating seamlessly without your day-to-day involvement. This perspective is about securing your legacy and maximizing the return on your investment of time and effort.
Keep in mind that throughout your business coaching journey all three of these perspectives are continually applied to maximize, shape and guide you for success, always with an eternal perspective.
Partnership
Embarking on a coaching journey is a powerful step toward transforming your business and personal life. My coaching process is designed to be a collaborative partnership, progressing week by week as I listen, understand, advise, and partner with you to achieve your most ambitious goals, all while seeking to align with God's plan for your life.
Laying the Foundation –
Deep Listening & Understanding
Ideally the first few weeks are all about you and your vision. I start with deep listening, dedicating our time to truly understand your current situation, the history of your business, and your aspirations. We'll explore your challenges, celebrate your successes, and identify the core areas where you seek improvement. This involves:
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Initial Discovery Session: A comprehensive conversation to map out your business structure, operational flow, financial health, and team dynamics.
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Personal Goals Integration: Understanding your personal aspirations, work-life balance, and how your business goals align with your broader life vision. This includes initial discussions around your long-term vision, including potential exit desires or succession plans, even if they feel far off.
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Current State Assessment: I’ll help you articulate your biggest pain points and immediate opportunities for growth and success.
By the end of these weeks together, we'll have a solid grasp of your unique landscape, ensuring our partnership is built on a foundation of mutual understanding.
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Strategic Insight & Collaborative Advising
With this clear understanding in place, the following weeks shift into strategic development and collaborative advising. This is where we start to synthesize the information, identify patterns, and begin crafting tailored solutions.
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Identifying Key Levers: We'll pinpoint the most impactful areas for improvement, whether it's sales, marketing, operations, finance, or leadership development.
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Brainstorming & Strategy Development: This isn't about me telling you what to do. It's a dynamic exchange where I advise by offering insights, best practices, and innovative ideas, while you bring your invaluable industry knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit. Together, we'll outline actionable strategies.
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Setting Measurable Goals: We'll define clear, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals for both your business and personal development. Crucially, these goals often include building business value and systems that support your eventual exit strategy, even if that's years away. We'll start thinking about what makes your business sellable or transferable.
During this time, you'll start to see a clear path emerging, with concrete steps to move forward.
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Partnership in Action –
Execution, Refinement, Holistic Growth & Exit Planning
Now our focus solidifies into active partnership and consistent progress. This is about execution, accountability, and continuous refinement, ensuring both your business and personal life are flourishing, and your long-term vision, including your exit, is continuously nurtured.
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Implementation Support: I work side-by-side with you as you implement the agreed-upon strategies. This means frequent check-ins to discuss progress, troubleshoot obstacles, and celebrate milestones.
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Problem-Solving & Adaptability: Business is dynamic. I’ll be there to help you navigate unexpected challenges, adapt strategies as needed, and pivot when opportunities arise.
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Leadership & Personal Development: I consistently weave in discussions about your growth as a leader, your decision-making processes, time management, and achieving the personal fulfillment that often accompanies business success. I understand that a thriving business often stems from a thriving individual, spiritually and personally.
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Accountability & Motivation: I serve as your trusted accountability partner, keeping you focused and motivated, celebrating your wins, and providing support through setbacks, reminding you of your greater purpose.
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Integrating Exit Strategy & Implementation: This is not a separate module but an ongoing thread.
- Value Building: We continuously work on improving your business's systems, processes, customer base, and financial performance to maximize its attractiveness and value to a future buyer or successor.
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Market Readiness: As you get closer to your desired exit timeline, we'll refine your business's presentation, financials, and legal readiness for sale or transition.
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Exploring Options: We'll discuss various exit avenues – outright sale, management buyout, family succession, strategic acquisition – and I’ll help you understand the implications of each.
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Pre-Sale Preparation: If selling, I’ll help you prepare for due diligence, articulate your value proposition, and ensure your team is aligned.
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Post-Exit Planning: Beyond the transaction, we'll discuss your personal next steps, ensuring a smooth transition into your post-business life, seeking how you can continue to be a steward of your time and resources for God's glory.
- De-risking & Documentation: We'll identify and address potential risks, and ensure critical knowledge, client relationships, and operational procedures are documented and transferable, making your business less reliant on you, and more structured for future success.
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Ongoing Review & Future Planning: Regularly, we'll review your progress against your goals, assess the impact of implemented changes, and begin to strategize for the next phase of growth and future opportunities, always keeping your ultimate exit strategy in sight.
Our week-by-week process is designed to be flexible and responsive to your developing needs, ensuring you have the continuous support (remember, you are not alone anymore) and expert guidance to not just grow your business, but to build the life you envision, culminating in a successful and well-planned exit.
Are you ready to explore how this coaching partnership can transform both your life and business?
Your next step is to complete my brief business survey below. Once I have that from you, I’ll contact you to set up a time for us to get together and talk more about you and your business.
"The successful exit we achieved was a direct result of Lee's dedicated support and expertise."
“Before I met Lee Armfield, my business felt stuck, and I felt even more so. His coaching provided the clarity and direction I desperately needed. He helped me understand where we needed to make significant improvements and then guided me through the challenging but rewarding process of Improving our operations and strategy. Beyond the business improvements, Lee also fostered my growth as a leader, preparing me mentally and strategically for the eventual sale. Lee and I worked together for several years (probably over 10) The successful exit we achieved was a direct result of his dedicated support and expertise. I'm incredibly grateful for his partnership in this journey."
-- B. Kohn
"For anyone who is serious about growing their business."
"Lee Armfield has been a business coach for me . . . as I had to navigate realistic expectations as the director of several related businesses. His guidance has always been honest and forthright, helping me to re-evaluate my strategies and make key improvements to my approach."
"I’d highly recommend Lee for anyone who is serious about growing their business while pursuing a fulfilling personal life. He will push you to work and I admire his forthright approach to coaching."
– J. Hodge
"Within 3 months, my business grew! And I grew!"
"I finally, saw a profit not only in my bank account, but in myself. Lee has a gift to see what I was struggling to find & master, and bring it out of me. Like a rudder & wind, Lee guided my sail towards my dream destination with precision & accuracy, yet all along hauling out the business leader from within me. He reinforced time and again, that he was a part of my team, and we were determined to win!”
– N. Gordon
"Your guidance has made a significant impact in our ministry."
“We have been able to secure and train 7 part-time staff members who are all working as volunteers. We have also been able to raise $110,000.00 of the $120,000.00 needed for our new store renovation. We are on target to open our new store in late August. In addition, your guidance in the area of donor development has been rewarding both financially and relationally. Your encouragement and involvement with Taylor’s Closet has been such a blessing to me. I could never have accomplished everything that I have without your help and guidance.”
– L. Giambattista
Lee Armfield
. . . possesses over 30 years of experience as a member of a primary group of entrepreneurial managers who are credited with establishing the largest newsletter publishing enterprise in North America.
His areas of expertise include working closely with start-ups and mid-stage ventures, business cloning, business valuation and sale, and operational and developmental strategies for non-profits. Lee thoroughly enjoys mentoring individuals and coaching them as they evaluate, elevate and exit their business successfully. His desire is to assist organizations and individuals in achieving maximum results.
As a previous board member and chairman of several international not-for-profit organizations, Lee is also certified as an international teacher/counselor. During his tenure as entrepreneurial leader, he was taught, trained and mentored by a small group of people who now comprise a veritable who’s who in business. Resulting from those early years, Lee took it upon himself to seek out those who he could then pour into and guide into both business and personal success.