Christopher M. Bowles

Strategment

Drive exponential growth and operational excellence for private and family-owned businesses through strategic guidance and hands-on consulting. Transform business performance with executive sessions, coaching, and workshops that align operations and strategic planning. Expert in KPI development and monitoring, rapid business scaling, organizational optimization, and leadership enhancement. Deliver actionable solutions to critical challenges, resulting in significant revenue growth, increased profitability, improved operational efficiency, and sustainable success.

Consultant | Growth Advisor

Magna Fides Ventures

Partner

The Haro Group of Keller WIlliams Historic District

Chief Operating Officer | Advisor

Homes for Heroes®

Managed day-to-day business operations concentrating on developing the leadership team, setting the operational direction and tempo, crafting and executing strategic and operational plans, guiding effective decision making, effectively allocating resources for maximum return, and leading teams in achieving goals and fulfilling company’s mission.

Trajectory: Sales Rep → Sales Manager → General Manager → VP of Ops → President | COO

President | Chief Operating Officer

Fish & Richardson P.C.

Oversaw the human resources function for the firm’s Atlanta, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, and Redwood City offices. Consulted with firm management on employment law, organizational development, performance management, employee relations, compensation and benefits, and recruiting and staffing needs. Project team leader for introduction of firm-wide employee recognition program. Managed firm’s staff performance evaluation, market pricing, and merit increase processes.

Senior HR Leader

U.S. House of Representatives

Office of U.S. Representative Jim Ramstad: Represented Minnesota’s Third Congressional District.

Representative's ambassador at public meetings, events, and ceremonies.  Managed constituent correspondence, drafted staff letters, and responded to complaints and inquiries.  Researched and analyzed legislative issues.

Congressional Assistant

United States Marine Corps

2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein).  2/7 War Dogs.  "Ready For All, Yielding To None.  Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war." 

Sergeant of Marines.  Successfully planned, coordinated, and executed the battalion administrative functions for numerous deployments in support of combat operations.  Principal assistant to the Commanding Officer in all matters pertaining to legal personnel issues, internal organization, and operation of the legal section.  Supervised, trained, and developed a combat ready team of Marines.  Oversaw the accurate pay, benefits, personnel tracking, awards, and promotions for the battalion (1,000+ Marines and sailors).  Served as the Executive Officer’s Personal Security Detachment Team Leader during combat operations.  

Battalion Color Sergeant  
Rifle Range Top Shooter (11/2003) 
Corporal’s Leadership Course Honor Graduate (10/2003)

Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge, Battalion Legal Chief, and Personnel Administrator

Guiding $5M-$50M businesses to Multiple 8-Figure Growth | Generated $100M+ for clients | Growth Advisor | Ex: COO + President | US Marine

If your $5M-$35M business is facing:

- Slowing or stagnating growth
- Growth beyond infrastructure capacity
- A significant downturn requiring swift, strategic change

I've been there. And many businesses have encountered these obstacles and have not only reversed course, but leaped forward to multiple 8-figure growth.

And this transformation can happen without:

- Increasing your workload
- Incurring additional expenses
- Sacrificing more of your personal time

I've guided transformation from the ground up, enabling leaders like you to achieve dream outcomes. Here are some highlights:

- Boosting owner earnings by $12M+
- Elevating real estate, tech, and services firms to multiple 8-figure growth
- Uncovering $5M for a luxury resort through strategic marketing and process optimization
- Leading businesses in diverse sectors to dominate their markets, generating over $100M in sales
- Doubling a marketing agency's sales with a strategic pivot

My approach is simple: Identify growth barriers and deploy proven solutions for lasting, scalable success.

Here’s how I can help you:

1. Subscribe to the Multiple 8-Figure Growth newsletter at christophermbowles.com for weekly insights. Learn from case studies of businesses scaling their operations and revenues, with actionable strategies to fuel your growth.

2. Comprehensive Business Diagnostic: A deep dive to discover obstacles and hidden opportunities. Like an x-ray for your business, highlighting effective areas and uncovering potential earnings in sales, marketing, leadership, and finance. On average, we find over $1M in easily achievable earnings, with a clear roadmap to access these gains and more.

3. Business Operating System Install and Implementation: Custom solutions to make your operations smoother and support sustainable growth. We streamline your processes, set clear goals, and introduce tools and methods to boost productivity across your business.

4. Ongoing and Bespoke Coaching and Consulting: Tailored, continuous support to tackle the complexities of scaling. Includes strategy sessions, actionable advice, and accountability practices to keep you on track toward your ambitious goals. Whether it’s refining your model, exploring new markets, or building your leadership, our coaching evolves with your needs.

Ready for transformational growth? Choose one of the options above and let's get started. 

To your growth, success, and impact. 

Christopher M. Bowles (CMB)

Heightened Leaders, LLC

Helping my clients achieve success by using the best tools, concepts and methodologies that are relevant to their journey.

Guide to Business Success | Leadership Team Coach | Facilitator 

I helped business owners and their leadership teams clarify their vision, set a clear path for execution and strengthen the company culture to ensure that vision becomes reality.  
Business owners often find themselves frustrated with pieces of their business and can't seem to break through. Those frustrations usually stem from people, profit, market conditions, or they've just hit a ceiling. Introducing tools can help leaders think in ways that will help them break through their frustrations.

Certified EOS Implementer | Leadership Team Coach

Pinnacle Business Guides

Founding Member

Netsync Network Solutions

Netsync Network Solutions is a value-added reseller, specializing in collaboration and unified communications, data center and cloud, network infrastructure, wireless and mobility, physical and network security, and end-user computing and VDI.

As Director, I created, built and led an external Staffing division for Netsync. Using a consultative approach to understanding client needs and the culture within the client’s environment, combined with the ability to understand candidate drivers and my knowledge of the technology, I was able to ensure the successful placement of talent.

Director, Staffing Solutions

Cenergy International Services

Cenergy is a global supplier of expert workforce solutions to the oil and gas industry, including Inspection Solutions and Safety Consulting services. Cenergy also provides logistics assistance to the marine, air, and ground transportation industries.

In my role as Chief Development Officer, I led a large team of Account Executives, Recruiters and Sales Support. The team spanned the globe with locations in Australia, The Netherlands, Canada and all throughout the United States, including Alaska. My charge was to align Sales and Recruiting, diversify the client portfolio, and the definition and update to all policies and procedures to ensure revenue growth and retention of talent, and included all marketing efforts.

As a member of the leadership team, I was heavily involved in the identification and qualification of all growth opportunities, including M&A efforts, and the successful implementation of the new business lines.

Manager, Sales and Recruiting

Presidio

Presidio provides IT solutions that integrate advanced voice, video and data technologies to best suit your technical and business requirements. Our experience, expertise and flexibility allow Presidio to incorporate a full spectrum of metrics including financial, strategic, technical, operations, and communication into the its solutions.  

As the Director of Staffing Solutions, my responsibilities included the development and successful role out of the Staffing Solutions Division. I developed the delivery methodology that allowed for the deep understanding of client requirements, environment and management tactics to ensure the best and right person was brought on to the project team, ensuring a successful placement.  

As a member of the Services Management team, I also worked to ensure successful workflow was created between all back-office and support teams. In addition, I also implemented an Employee Satisfaction Training program for all teams to improve Customer Satisfaction.

Director of Staffing

Stratus Technology Services

Business Development Manager

MTM Technologies

As the Director of ITPRO, I led the Staffing Division to a national practice, leading a team of Account Managers and Recruiters delivering a proven solution that aligned client needs, environment and candidates desired to the successful placement contract and full-time placements.

National Director of ITPRO Services

The journey to success is much like climbing a mountain. Steep terrain, clouds, sunny skies, lose rocks… and maybe even times when you can’t see the summit. 

In business, that mountain may seem worse than Everest at times. Having a Guide to help you climb is imperative. Knowing what the terrain looks like ahead, what the paths are, how to weather the storms, and what tools to bring will help anyone get up their mountain safer, maybe even ahead of schedule. 

As a Guide to Business Success here is what I believe: 

I believe that there is no “one size fits all” solution to your journey.  There is only YOUR solution. In order to achieve your success, we must build the solution that is right for you. With tools and resources you need, when you need them.

I believe you need a framework to help map out your journey. You must know Where, Why, What, How and Who to truly have the best plan. 

I believe in closing the gap between strategy and execution. Failure happens in between so let’s bring the two together so we can achieve success.

I believe behavior drives success.  Change behavior and succeed. Manage behavior and thrive! 

I believe people are your greatest asset.  We need to treat them as such. And that starts with us at the top. 

I believe that your business changes as you grow. And so should you! You aren’t the same person two years ago. You wont be the same person two years from now.  

I believe in taking business and its leaders to new heights. Both in skill and in success!

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