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Chief Marketing Officer

Verity Advertising Group

Verity Advertising Group helps technology companies reach their audiences exactly where they are with hyperlocal digital ads. The Verity Precision Method boosts brand visibility and results in sky-high clickthrough on ads across 100,000+ mobile apps and websites.

Chief Technology Officer & co-founder

Keeping Colorado Beautiful

Keeping Colorado Beautiful (KCB) is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit dedicated to preserving and restoring Colorado's natural resources through graffiti removal and cleanup of natural areas. With the help of our directors, partners, supporters, and volunteers, KCB organizes graffiti restoration of natural rock formations across Colorado to restore beauty to our parks.

*Acquired in 2022 by Focus on the Forest*

Co-Founder & Vice President of the Board

KiteBird

Owner

Marketing Refresh

Sr. Digital Marketing Strategist

CrossBorder Air, Inc.

CrossBorder Air is Aviation's leading Air Cargo & Private Aircraft Charter service with locations in Australia, the U.S., and Europe. Our fleet consists of operators and Private Jets strategically located to provide global access, along with our 747-400 & 777 Freighters, C-130, and A330 cargo aircraft for all your logistical transportation needs.

Strategic consultant

Code Ninjas

Director of Franchisee Success & Vendor Relations

Talon

Strategic Development

ATSI Business Communications Systems

Reset To Grow

RESET coaches executive leadership strategies to carve new revenue paths and ultimately achieve profitable, sustainable growth.

Director of Market Intelligence

As a seasoned founder, marketing expert, and real estate broker in Colorado, my journey has been anything but conventional. 

My obsessive brain & unorthodox approach has taken me down a beautiful but winding path. I've built companies, failed miserably, successfully exited, strategically advised startups and Fortune 500 companies, co-founded an environmental non-profit, and sat on a Colorado State environmental advisory board.

By day, I apply my strategic marketing acumen to drive growth for Silicon Valley tech companies. Outside office hours, my passion shifts to real estate, where I guide Coloradans in making informed decisions about residential and commercial property ownership.

And while my ventures evolve, my most cherished role remains — being a dad to two incredible kids.

Matt Montgomery

Justin Bateh, PhD, PMP

I write about project management, leadership, and AI | Follow to develop skills for faster, smarter, and more efficient project management and to build winning teams | Boost your career with my actionable insights

Hi, I’m Justin 👋 I’ve spent my career running projects where decisions mattered, and failure wasn’t an option. I didn’t study project management, operations, and strategy just to talk about it. I used it to make decisions, fix broken execution, and get results when the stakes were high. To prove it wasn’t luck, I built repeatable systems I teach through real projects and that are now used and proven by thousands of leaders. Here, I share my experience in project management, AI, leadership, and decision-making. Not as theory, but as leverage for modern leaders.I hate fluff. I hate busywork. Everything here is real, tested, and battle-proven...from someone who’s still doing the work today. I also teach the top-rated AI-Powered Project Management cohort on Maven, where I help task-buried professionals become confident, AI-powered project leaders who operate closer to decisions and far from busywork. *All views and opinions shared across my content are solely my own.

Founder

I teach Project & Operations professionals the skills to drive sustainable growth, change, and profitability using data-driven decision making, lean tools, six sigma methodologies, agile projects, and data analytics. I have worked with executives and managers from numerous organizations, including Walmart, Verizon, Amazon, Pearson, UPS, Wiley, Cengage, Medtronic, US Department of Health, CSX, USPS, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Crowley Maritime, US Air Force, US Navy, Novartis, FedEx, McKesson, and many others.

Justin Bateh, PhD

9 Simple Ways To Recognize Your Team

(The stuff that’s not in any handbook)

1/ Stop Micromanaging Them
→ Trust is the ultimate recognition.
→ Hire smart people—then let them work.
→ Oversight kills ownership.

2/ Promote the Competent, Not the Loud
→ Results speak louder than self-promotion.
→ Reward outcomes, not volume.
→ Quiet excellence deserves the spotlight.

3/ Give Them True Autonomy
→ Treat them like adults.
→ Let them decide how they work best.
→ Freedom fuels performance.

4/ Pay Them What They’re Worth
→ Money talks louder than pizza parties.
→ Certificates don’t pay bills.
→ Fair pay is real appreciation.

5/ Fire the Toxic Performers
→ One bad attitude drains ten good ones.
→ Protect the culture, not the culprit.
→ Removing them lifts everyone else.

6/ Don’t Be a Jerk
→ Decency is rare leadership currency.
→ Respect costs nothing.
→ Kindness compounds influence.

7/ Give Them Time Off (and Mean It)
→ Burnout isn’t a badge of honor.
→ Disconnect means no Slack, no guilt.
→ Rested teams outperform exhausted ones.

8/ Listen to Their Ideas
→ Ask, pause, and really hear them.
→ Implementation proves respect.
→ Listening drives innovation.

9/ Publicly Give Credit (and Take None)
→ Celebrate their wins loudly.
→ Success is theirs—failure is yours.
→ That’s real leadership.

Recognition isn’t a bonus. It’s a culture.
And culture decides who stays.

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Expert in AI-Driven Project Management, Strategy, & Operations | Ex-COO Turned Award-Winning Professor, LinkedIn Instructor & Corporate Trainer

Don't waste your energy on the wrong people in 2026.

Choose wisely using the Skill/Will Matrix:

1/ Top Performers (High Skill + High Will)
→ Don't micromanage them
→ Give them ownership
→ Recognize them publicly
→ Build your future around them
→ They're your A-players

2/ High Potentials (Low Skill + High Will)
→ Coach them actively
→ Set them up for wins
→ Develop, don't smother
→ Motivation drives results
→ They want to succeed

3/ Disengaged Experts (High Skill + Low Will)
→ Ask questions and listen
→ Could be burnt out or bored
→ Small shifts can reignite them
→ Sometimes it doesn't work
→ They deliver but disconnected

4/ Low Performers (Low Skill + Low Will)
→ This is where time dies
→ Give one clear chance
→ Exit quickly if no change
→ Keeping them drains A-players
→ They won't improve or try

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