Jerry Macnamara

Helping CEOs Scale without Stress | Franchise 500 (2x), Inc500 (2x) & Biz Journal Fast 50 (3x) + Trend Best Places to Work | Ultimate CEO | Proving Good Guys Finish 1st since 1974 | Host "Best Places to Lead"

Your business is working, but can it do more?
 
Like most business leaders, you've likely spent sleepless nights obsessing over your company's future. You’ve closed your office door, scratched your head, and wondered what to do next.

You're anxious about losing your best employees while regretting not letting go of underperformers sooner.

Does this sound at all familiar?
Feel Trapped: You lack a clear execution plan and are overwhelmed by daily crises, running from fire to fire.

Employee Frustrations: Miscommunication and unclear directions leave you shouldering the burden alone.

Unmanageable Growth: Scaling your business feels impossible without the right systems and processes.

Fear Over Joy: Constant fear paralyzes and frustrates you, stealing the joy from your work.

It doesn't have to be this way. With a proven track record leading award-winning companies across multiple industries, I’ve developed a system that drives success. 

Here are some of the results I’ve produced:

Franchise Growth: I helped grow a franchise company from $5MM to $15MM in just 18 months, earning a spot in the Franchise 500 (2x).

Manufacturing Excellence: I transformed a forty-year-old manufacturing company to achieve a 98% on-time delivery rate.

Successful Exit: I started, scaled, and successfully sold an internet business.

Construction Leadership: I led a construction company from $7MM to $30MM in three years, making it to the Inc 500 (2x) and Best Places to Work.

Here’s the truth…
Your product doesn’t matter. 
Your service doesn’t matter. 
Your industry doesn’t matter. 
Your channel doesn’t matter. 

Your business is widgets, plain and simple…  and the only thing that matters is your leadership approach.

However, on-the-job training is stressful and costly, eating away at your opportunities and profits.
If you want to scale without stress, join our exclusive mastermind of high-growth B2B CEOs. Learn from my experience and avoid the pitfalls that can derail your progress.

Book a call: https://calendly.com/jerrymacnamara/25-minute-zoom

Founder and CEO

Business is not only the economic engine of the world, but it is also the engine of cultural change. Our mission is to positively impact a healthier, happier world where people live life on their terms, with intention, because of better business. By equipping our CEOs with frameworks to lead and a support system to help, businesses will fulfill the promise to their customers, vendors, and employees.

ProvenChaos. Weird company name, right? 

Let me explain because you’ve probably experienced it yourself.

You’ve Proven there is a pain point you can solve in the market, but you feel in Chaos because your systems, people or processes haven’t kept up. Or, maybe you feel in chaos personally because the business is stealing all your energy and time away from your family, so there is a lack of fulfillment despite your success.

That’s ProvenChaos.

Have you ever had that ProvenChaos feeling? I bet you have.

Learn how we can help at ProvenChaos.com

Sacrifice is not a scalable strategy.

At 26, I thought I was invincible.

I was running a high-growth Franchise 500 company. On the outside, I was the definition of "successful." On the inside, I was duct-taping it together.

I thought "Heroic Leadership" was the job description. I thought the grind was the price of entry.

Then I landed on a hospital gurney.

Counting the dots of the industrial ceiling tiles and listening to the **beep, beep** of the EKG, convinced I was having a heart attack, the "success" didn't matter. The revenue didn't matter. The growth didn't matter.

In that moment, I realized a hard truth: 

Hustle works as a phase. 

It fails as a system.

What builds a company in the early days cannot operate it at scale. If your growth strategy relies on you being the smartest, fastest, and hardest-working person in the room every single day, you haven’t built a business.
You’ve built a ticking time bomb.

👉 The Pivot: From "Heroic Leadership" to "The Architect"

If you feel tired but “successful,” you are likely at a crossroads. You’ve realized that more effort won't solve the problem. Better design will.

Biology and complexity always win. If you want to avoid burnout and build something that isn't dependent on your 24/7 presence, you have to be mindful about systems and processes now.

Are you ready to stop being the bottleneck?
You know you can't outwork scale. It's a dead end. The real solution is a business designed to scale without your daily heroic intervention.

If you’re ready to move from being the Chief Everything Officer to the Chief Architect, I want to help you map out that transition using the same frameworks I've used to build and sell companies (+ advise over 100 companies).

DM me "SYSTEMS" and we'll hop on a call. Let's have a conversation about where you’re stuck and how to build a business that actually gives you your life back.

Micromanagement isn’t a leadership flaw.
It’s a systems failure.

Most leaders don’t hover because they love control.
They hover because they don’t trust what’s happening when they’re not in the room.

Deadlines slip.
Updates feel vague.
“I thought you meant…” becomes the default explanation.

So leaders step back in, not because they want to, but because being surprised is expensive.

Here’s the hard truth most people miss:

If “good” hasn’t been clearly defined, micromanagement feels responsible.

That’s not a people problem.
That’s an execution problem.

And until you fix the system, every “hands-off” conversation is just wishful thinking.

I’m breaking down the execution system that eliminates this pattern next Monday, February 9th, at 9:30 am ET. I'll teach, then I'll transition to "Office Hours" where I'll answer any questions you might have about business.

Most CEOs would rather suffer quietly for years than have one 20-minute uncomfortable conversation. 

I call this "Acceptable Mediocrity." These are the "5, 6 and 7s" in your organization who aren't so egregious as the "1, 2, 3 and 4s" that you have to fire them immediately, so you tolerate the behavior. It’s the hidden tax you pay for practicing Heroic Capitalism: the belief that great leadership means absorbing every bit of pressure, making every decision, and personally carrying the weight of the company. 

Why do smart leaders willingly accept mediocre performance?

↳ The Hero Trap: Being the "fixer" feels like value, but it’s actually a trap that trains your team to wait for you instead of stepping up.

↳ Misplaced Loyalty: You keep people in roles because they were there in the "early days," even though they can no longer take the company forward. 

↳ Conflict Avoidance: You’ve convinced yourself that building real systems and having hard talks is "harder" than just doing the work yourself. 

↳ The Hustle Myth: You’ve normalized 60–70 hour weeks and missed vacations as "commitment" rather than a signal of a broken operating model.

The Stats on the Cost of Inaction is REAL:

↳ Productivity Leak: The average company loses over 20% of its productive capacity to "organizational drag"—the unnecessary meetings and decision bottlenecks caused by a lack of clarity.

↳ The Valuation Discount: Founder-dependent businesses trade at a 66% discount (2–4x EBITDA) compared to team-enabled firms (6–10x+).

↳  Execution Failure: When the founder is the central nervous system, 78% of strategic initiatives fail because they can't survive the "Monday Morning" whirlwind of tactical firefighting.

The Instruction:
Stop being the Hero and start being the Architect.

True leadership isn't about how much you can endure; it’s about how much clarity you can provide. 

Growth should be fun and energizing, not destructive, and it should never require you to be the bottleneck for your own success.

❓ How are you at holding the standard and ending mediocrity in your business?

❓ How much easier would it be to lead if you just had the courage to have the 20 minute conversation?

👉 You'd probably be watching the sunrise instead of grinding and stressed in the office.

Historic day on Southwest Airlines. ✈️ 

The rollout of assigned seating was…much slower boarding than open seating. 🤔 

Wonder what that tells us about the universe and natural order.

Hypocrisy is the ultimate brand killer.

I recently saw a great video from a "GoHighLevel Expert." I liked his content, so I signed up for his list.

The confirmation email came from Hubspot.

🤯 WTF?

If you don't trust your own system to run your business, why should I trust it to run mine?

I am committed to eating our own "dog food." As we’ve been mapping out our 2026 plan using our own B2B Revenue Machine, the insights have been incredible. It’s sharpened our POV and forced us to ask the question Melissa Cohen recently posed:

"Would people know it’s you if they read your work?"

"Sameness" is a slow death in this market. So, here is our line in the sand about what I've learned running and advising businesses - what's wrongly accepted, what's broken and a path forward. 

👉 The Core Truth: What got you here will kill you there.
The heroic effort and founder-driven control that built your company is now actively working against it. You are mistaking control for leadership and effort for effectiveness.

🙅‍♂️ The Villain: Heroic Capitalism
We are declaring war on "Heroic Capitalism." This is the culture that glorifies founders who:
Absorb every ounce of pressure.
Make every micro-decision.
Praise "the grind" while their health and families pay the price.

💰 The result? A business that gets bigger, but never freer. You aren't building an asset; you’re building a cage.

The New Rules of the Game
We believe success that destroys the person building it is a failure. We operate by a different set of rules:

Systemic Clarity: Great leadership creates frameworks and clarity so people can win without escalation.

The 4Cs: The CEO’s real job is providing Clarity on how to win, Comfort through tools and training, meaningful Challenge, and genuine Care.

Scalable Autonomy: Growth should be energizing, not destructive. If your team is waiting for you to "step up," it’s because you haven’t "stepped back."

End Mediocrity: We stop keeping people in roles just because they were there in the "early days." We upgrade the systems, or we upgrade the people.

If you're a Founder or Senior Leader, how does this line up for you?

Your team isn’t underperforming.

They’re under-contexted. And, Context is always king.

Most execution failures are blamed on:
❌ Effort
❌ Communication
❌ Accountability
❌ Motivation

That’s a lazy diagnosis. It COULD be right, but...

What’s actually missing in most organizations is shared clarity around outcomes.

When people don’t know:
❓What "good" actually looks like
❓How their work will be evaluated
❓What “done” really means
❓Where decision authority is allowed vs constrained

Your people default to activity instead of ownership.

⬆️ Busyness goes up.
⬇️ Confidence goes down.
↔️ Results stall.

That’s not a talent problem.
It’s a context problem. To be blunt, it's a YOU problem.

And, it's fixable...

Next Monday, February 9th at 9:30 am ET, I’ll show you how to implement The Execution System to drive clarity and outcomes. It'll be a fun LinkedIn Live as I bring Office Hours back and take your questions after I teach for a bit [Link the event]

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What are you chasing?

For most founders I work with, the answer is freedom to pursue what's next, whether spoken or unspoken.

Maybe an exit.
Maybe their next phase of growth.
Maybe just a real vacation.

But they're trapped in what they built.

I know the feeling. I'd spent 25 years systematizing Fortune 500 operations while my own life was chaos.

I rebuilt. Now I build the systems that liberate founders.

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WHAT I BRING:

→ Fortune 500 Operations Leadership
→ $50-80M in captured value through process optimization
→ UPenn Computer Science + Carnegie Mellon MBA
→ AI/analytics fluency
→ Entrepreneurial reality (I've lived the 80-hour weeks)

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I WORK WITH:

→ $3-15M service business founders who can't step away
→ Family businesses navigating succession or next-gen leadership
→ Companies preparing for exit who need operational independence

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WHAT LIBERATION UNLOCKS:

→ Time Wealth: Sovereignty over your calendar again
→ Financial Wealth: Capacity to build what's next
→ Impact Wealth: Your team owns outcomes without you
→ Relational Wealth: Space for the relationships that matter
→ Identity Wealth: From trapped operator to strategic builder

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THE APPROACH:

Fortune 500 precision adapted for entrepreneurial speed — one constraint at a time.

I don't do cookie-cutter frameworks that overwhelm already-busy founders. I do surgical intervention that creates quick wins and builds belief.

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Liberation isn't the destination — it's the starting line.

What would you chase with your freedom?

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🎙️ Host, The Corvus Effect Podcast — conversations with leaders who've mastered operational excellence without sacrificing their sanity.

Scott Raven

The path to your breakthrough isn't linear.

Three steps forward.
Two steps back.
One sideways pivot.

That's not failure.
That's how transformation actually works.

Strategic builders embrace the mess.
Trapped operators demand the straight line.

Which one are you chasing?

#FounderLife #Entrepreneurship #Leadership

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Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach

Certified Practitioner

Fractional COO | Your Partner in Operational Freedom and Business Worth

Your business should give you more life, not consume it.

Hi, I'm Scott. I help founders create businesses that thrive without them.

You built your business for freedom, but somewhere along the way, it became a sophisticated prison where you're the indispensable warden.

In 2017, I learned this the hard way. Hospital bed. Blood pressure at stroke levels. That moment changed everything - from being operations' prisoner to becoming its architect.

What I Do:

As a Fractional COO, I help founders build operational independence using The Corvus Methodology™.

Think of it as designing your escape from operational overwhelm. We don't improve your prison - we architect your freedom.

My Approach:

The Corvus Methodology™ produces operational independence architecture built on genuine leadership principles.

• Assess → Surgical precision diagnostic that reveals specific operational dependency patterns
• Architect → Custom liberation blueprint that amplifies team strengths rather than forcing conformity
• Implement → Progressive empowerment that creates genuinely autonomous decision-makers

When systems align with your team's natural energy and strengths, that's when real freedom becomes possible.

What This Gives You -- The Six Dimensions of Freedom:

• Time Sovereignty: Reclaim 20+ hours weekly for strategic focus
• Decision Liberation: 70% fewer decisions requiring your input
• Operational Independence: Systems that run brilliantly without you
• Team Empowerment: People who think ownership, not employment
• Strategic Focus: Elevate from firefighting to visionary leadership
• Life Integration: Success that enhances rather than consumes your life

Why I Do What I Do:

I've generated tens of millions in value and still faced the gap between worth and recognition. Now I help founders resolve this same dissonance - creating environments where excellence is finally reflected in both freedom and compensation.

Your business exists to enhance your life. Everything else is just sophisticated busy work.

Ready to stop being your business's best employee and start being its true leader?

Carnegie Mellon MBA | University of Pennsylvania BS | Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach | Host of The Corvus Effect® Podcast

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Together we'll discover how successful leaders master the delicate balance of career advancement, personal health, financial growth, and meaningful relationships.

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Raised over $125k in lifetime for Barr Program, funding innovations in cancer treatments across types.

Past President of community outreach arm of Montgomery Elementary School, dedicated to funding capital improvements for the long term improvement of the school.  Now merged with PTA to form Montgomery Elementary PTO.

Operational Excellence | Fractional & Interim COO | Transformation Leadership | Fortune 500 Precision | Entrepreneurial Speed

Financial wealth matters. 

But it's not the only kind. 
→ Time wealth: Sovereignty over your calendar 
→ Impact wealth: Your mark on the world 
→ Relational wealth: Sharing success with those who matter 
→ Identity wealth: Becoming who you're meant to be 

Liberation unlocks creation. 

Which wealth are you chasing? 

#Entrepreneurship #Leadership #Success

Day 2 of this week's series on chasing what matters in 2026. 

Today: The traps. 

The bottlenecks. 
The firefighting. 
The inability to disconnect. 

Matthew McConaughey says writing it down makes it real. 

What trap are you breaking free from this year? 

Write it down below in the comments.

#2026 #FounderLife #SmallBusiness

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