Y Scouts

As CEO of Y Scouts, I highlight the connection between purpose and leadership in the recruiting process to transform how people and companies connect through a shared sense of purpose. Over the past 9 years, my efforts have brought this conversation to the forefront in the boardrooms of some of the most highly respected companies across the country.

I’m proud to lead a team of fully-committed recruiting and leadership development experts who find and hire exceptional, deeply-aligned leaders.

Founder and CEO 

Prevail Recruiting

Co-Founder

TruPath Search (formerly Job Brokers, Inc.)

Started my own business with another co-founder called Job Brokers, Inc. which we rebranded to TruPath Search. We offered a full range of recruiting services including: Retained search, executive search, contingent search, contract, contract to hire, direct placement and a full array of research recruitment and market intelligence information gathering.

Grew to over $50M in revenue with clients like University of Phoenix, Goodrich, OMCO Solar, and others.

CEO and Founder

HUNTER Technical - htrjobs.com

In charge of getting new businesses and build sales pipeline for the recruiting team.

Account Manager

Aerotek

Learned from the best on how to recruit great talent in telecomm through seamless operations, professional development, and skills assessment.

Recruiter

CEO | We Find Purpose Driven Executives For Value Aligned Companies

I’m on a mission to change how we hire leaders in this country. Our employees and customers deserve to work with executives who are aligned on the values and the mission of the company, as well as being highly capable. 

The traditional hiring system is broken. Job boards and AI have created an unholy mess of the recruitment process and no one is winning. Candidates are anxious and over-applying, employers are drowning in applications and paralyzed by choice. 

At Y Scouts, we lead with purpose. We don’t advertise roles — we use our covert discovery process to handpick outstanding candidates for your leadership role. We obsess about 3 key characteristics: 

- Relentless learning
- Developing others
- Delivering results

If a candidate has all 3, they fit our Leadership Model and only then do we progress to assessing their experience and capabilities. We look for soft skills, culture alignment and an expectation of excellence.

My early career in recruiting started at Aerotek, one of the biggest aerospace recruiters in the country. A few years later, I started my own firm, Tru Path (formerly Job Brokers Inc.), a company that grew 100% year-over-year for eight years, scaling to $50 million in revenue. 

We hired over 50,000 people across many different industries. Churn was often high, and I realized that to drive real growth in a company's culture, you have to start at the top.

So in 2012, I co-founded Y Scouts, the world’s first purpose-driven executive search firm. We work with dozens of industries, from fashion to fitness, medicine to manufacturing. 

My philosophy is simple: hire like your business depends on it — because it does. 

Ready to find the leaders who are going to take your business further than you could have imagined? Let’s talk.

Max Hansen

Vistage Worldwide, Inc.

Helping CEOs Grow with Greater Clarity, Confidence, and Connection

High-performing CEOs and business owners don’t join Vistage because they have to—they join because they’re ready for more. More intentional growth. Sharper leadership. Deeper connection. Clearer perspective.

As a Vistage Chair, I guide a group of exceptional CEOs through the power of a confidential peer advisory board—where leaders challenge and support one another, share hard-won wisdom, and solve their most pressing business issues together.

In addition to monthly group meetings, I provide one-on-one executive coaching to help each member elevate their leadership, uncover blind spots, seize opportunities, and grow both their business and their impact.

Vistage has spent over 65 years refining this model, and today more than 50,000 members in 40 countries rely on its proven framework: peer advisory boards, private coaching, world-class speakers, and a global network of trusted leaders and insights.

This is a path for leaders who are ready to think differently, act boldly, and grow with greater purpose, freedom, and clarity.

Vistage Chair (CEO Peer Advisory Groups in the Greater Phoenix Area)

YellowBird

At YellowBird, I lead go-to-market strategy and execution as a Fractional Growth Leader, driving scalable revenue through high-performance sales coaching, customer success enablement, and cross-functional alignment.

My role centers on accelerating growth by combining sales strategy with operational discipline — ensuring the team is not only hitting numbers, but doing so with clarity, consistency, and customer-centric execution.

Key Focus Areas:
✔ Sales Leadership & Coaching – Elevating rep performance through strategic deal support, CRM discipline, and time management best practices.
✔ Revenue Operations – Aligning sales and customer success processes to reduce friction, improve conversion rates, and drive lifetime value.
✔ Customer Success Strategy – Supporting post-sale execution to increase retention, drive advocacy, and create a seamless customer journey.
✔ Strategic Initiatives – Leading high-impact growth projects and GTM campaigns in partnership with marketing and executive stakeholders.
✔ Cross-Functional Alignment – Acting as the connective tissue between CEO vision, frontline execution, and customer outcomes.

I bring a blend of strategic thinking and tactical execution to help YellowBird scale with confidence, ensuring every growth lever—people, process, and pipeline—is optimized for results.

Sales and Growth Executive

Fero

At FERO, we’re redefining logistics with cutting-edge technology that enhances efficiency, transparency, and cost-effectiveness. As Fractional Operations, I focus on optimizing internal processes, driving strategic execution, and ensuring seamless cross-functional collaboration to support scalable growth.

Key Areas of Impact:
✔ Operational Efficiency & Scalability – Streamlining workflows, refining internal processes, and implementing systems that enhance productivity.
✔ Project Management & Execution – Overseeing key initiatives, ensuring alignment with company goals, and driving execution with precision.
✔ Cross-Functional Coordination – Facilitating team collaboration to ensure smooth operations and alignment on strategic priorities.
✔ Performance & Process Optimization – Establishing tracking systems to measure progress, improve accountability, and support continuous improvement.
✔ Stakeholder Communication & Alignment – Ensuring clarity between leadership, teams, and key stakeholders to maintain focus on high-impact goals.

Integrating structure with strategy, I help FERO scale efficiently while staying agile in a fast-evolving industry.

Fractional Operations | Strategic Execution & Organizational Efficiency

Ignite & Rise Consulting

Fractional Operation Owner and consulting support. I help SMBs operationalize processes on a fractional/contract/project basis. 

Current consulting projects include: 
* Executive Coaching / Founder Coaching 
* Sales and sales technology stack - Hubspot, Zoho, Active Campaign, Asana
* Hubspot implementation and admin
* Fractional sales and operational leadership
* Integrator for EOS (Entrepreneurs Operating System) and Scaling Up

Founder / Consultant

Hiring Indicators

At Hiring Indicators, I focus on driving operational efficiency, strategic marketing, and scalable growth while supporting leadership through executive coaching. My role bridges key functions to ensure alignment, innovation, and impact.

Key Areas of Impact:
✔ Operational Optimization – Streamlining workflows, improving processes, and implementing scalable systems to enhance efficiency.
✔ Executive Coaching & Leadership Support – Partnering with leadership to refine strategy, enhance decision-making, and drive organizational growth.
✔ Marketing & Brand Positioning – Elevating Hiring Indicators' presence through strategic marketing initiatives that enhance visibility and engagement.
✔ Cross-Functional Collaboration – Ensuring alignment between teams, facilitating clear communication, and supporting company-wide objectives.
✔ Scalability & Growth Strategy – Identifying opportunities for expansion, refining internal processes, and implementing frameworks for sustainable growth.

Integrating strategy with execution, I help Hiring Indicators scale effectively while fostering a strong, aligned, and high-performing organization.

Fractional Operations & Growth Strategy 

The Imiloa Institute

Operations at Imiloa

In my role at Imiloa, I am the linchpin of our retreat operations. My responsibilities encompass:

Sales Leadership: Steering our sales strategies, I lead the team in identifying opportunities, cultivating relationships, and ensuring optimal revenue growth.

Marketing Oversight: Overseeing our marketing initiatives, I ensure that our brand message is consistently impactful and reaches our target audience effectively through the work of internal and external marketers. 

Client Success & Experience: Beyond just securing clients, I prioritize their success and overall experience. From the moment they engage with us to the culmination of their retreat, I ensure that each interaction is seamless, memorable, and exceeds expectations.

Strategic Support for the CEO: As a trusted arm of our leadership, I readily take on diverse responsibilities as directed by the CEO, ensuring that our operational efficiency is always at its peak.

My multifaceted role ensures that every aspect of our retreat operations is aligned, efficient, and delivers unparalleled value to our clients.

Chief Operating Officer (fr)

Elevato 

Elevato is "All Things Web". From SEO, Email Marketing to Front and Back End Web Development, we help organizations do more in the world by being found more, helping more people, and making a bigger impact on their communities. 

* EOS Integrator 
* Sales and Marketing 
* Internal and External Growth (lead gen) and Client Success 
* Key Process Improvement
* KPI's

Growth Consultant

Markitors, Powered by Elevato

Acquired by Elevato January 2022. 

Markitors is an SEO company for small businesses.

Google "Digital Marketing Company", and we're usually on the first page of the search results worldwide.

We connect small businesses with customers and have a good time doing it. Voted a "Best Place To Work" 3 years in a row.

* Day to Day operations of the Agency
* Working hand in hand with Founder and CEO 
* SOP Development 
* Sales and Leadership
* Implemented EOS - Business operating system 
* Managed P&L KPI's

Vice President Operations

Sales and Marketing strategy | CRM Hubspot Implementation | KPI's and Tracking | Revenue Forecasting | Analytics and Data Driven | Team Development and Coaching | Customer Journey Onboard Process 

Through our Hiring on Purpose process, we help define our client’s success outcomes and connect aligned leaders with meaningful, impactful work. In short, we’ve created a better way, for a better reason, that achieves better results for our clients and the candidates with whom we matched them.

Head of Growth & Marketing 

Southwestern Consulting

High Performance Sales and Leadership Coach for the multi-million dollar sales coaching and consulting division of the 160-year-old Southwestern Company.

Committed to the growth of others, I live each day dedicated to the art of selling and embracing the journey along the way. I seek to provide real value to everyone I encounter and help individuals  unleash their greatest potential through relentless accountability. 

At Southwestern Consulting every one of our speakers, coaches, and trainers have been top producing sales professionals and have been recognized as amongst the best in the country. We are practitioners of the art of sales first and foremost. Our mission is to see how many lives and businesses that we can change in a significant way through our high caliber sales coaching and consulting.

Southwestern Consulting™ is one of the fastest growing Sales Training, Consulting, and Motivational Speaking companies in the world. We put on huge motivational sales and leadership training conferences all over the United States as well as provide 1 on 1 sales coaching, and customized sales training around the world. Our clients include companies such as: AFLAC, Keller Williams, United Healthcare, Bankers Life and Casualty, Honda, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, New York Life, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Ford, and thousands more.

Professional Sales and Leadership Coach

Helping growth-stage CEOs lead with clarity, scale with intention, and create the space to focus on what only they can do.

With decades of experience driving operational excellence—from startup scrappiness to F500 systems—I work with leaders navigating the messy middle of growth: team complexity, scaling systems, cash challenges, and time constraints.

Through strategic coaching and peer advisory, I help CEOs make better decisions, build aligned executive teams, and stay focused on what actually moves the business forward.

What I’ve seen at every stage: the bigger the business grows, the harder it is to find trusted space to think clearly, be challenged honestly, and lead with confidence. That’s the space I create.

From Jobing.com and Workiva (pre- and post-IPO) to Realtor.com, my focus has always been the same: translate vision into execution, people into aligned teams, chaos into calm, and sustainable growth.

Known for:
• Operational clarity and strategic execution
• A coach-style leadership approach that elevates performance
• Systems that drive alignment, accountability, and scale
• Helping leaders stay grounded in what matters most

Let’s connect if you’re scaling fast and ready to grow with clarity, traction, and a trusted guide in the seat next to you—not just a sounding board in the passenger seat.

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