S Brian Smith 🪜

Strategy Ladders

At Strategy Ladders, we specialize in driving explosive growth for agencies, consultancies, and B2B service businesses.

Our mission: help founders like you scale from 7 figures to 8 figures and beyond, unlocking your business's full potential.

We work with founders ready to accelerate growth, overcome operational bottlenecks, and build a business that can scale rapidly and sustainably. If your business isn’t achieving 200% year-over-year growth, it’s time to rethink your strategy.

The Strategy Ladder System is designed to do just that. It’s a proven framework that delivers a bulletproof strategy tailored to your business’s unique needs. Our system streamlines operations, drives revenue, and positions your business for sustained, long-term growth.

But we don’t just stop at strategy. We execute.

Our team of 8-figure founders and industry experts ensures every aspect of your business is optimized for scalability. From marketing and sales to operations and leadership, we cover it all—making sure your business is set to thrive as it grows.

Our results speak for themselves. We’ve helped over 1,000 entrepreneurs achieve remarkable success, including:

💥 Scaling an agency from $150k to $4M ARR in just 10 months

💥 Boosting a digital marketing agency’s productivity by 450%, dramatically increasing profitability

💥 Streamlining a SaaS product’s roadmap, reducing development costs by 45% while increasing execution speed by 25%

💥 Repositioning a web development agency to secure a long-term contract with a Fortune 100 company

💥 Growing an app development agency’s recurring revenue from 2% to over 50% of total revenue in three months

💥 Building a sales organization of 65 people in two years

💥 Orchestrating the sale of key SaaS platform assets at a significant premium over market value

If you’re serious about scaling to 8 figures and beyond, let’s connect. We’re here to provide the expertise and execution you need to achieve exponential growth.

Founder & CEO

I host Strategy Ladders, a no-nonsense podcast delivering real-world insights on scaling, optimizing, and thriving as a founder of an agency or B2B service company.

With 17+ years in the field, my team and I tackle core challenges in B2B sales, leadership, and business growth to help owners overcome bottlenecks and build high-performing teams. Think of it as having an outsourced co-founder in your corner, sharing tactical strategies on everything from digital marketing to operations—minus the fluff. Ready to put your business back to work for you? Follow us now!

Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Amazon 🎙️

Podcast Host

Trivr Eats, Inc

Advisor

S. Brian Smith Group, LLC

"Simply put, Brian has an innate ability to cut through all the bullshit/programming/stories and help one identify and achieve their goals. Working with him has made me more successful in business and has had an overwhelmingly positive impact on my personal life." - Serial Founder & Investor

"S. Brian Smith changed my perspective on life. In fact, he just changed my life - full stop. I’m a better person because of the work we’ve done and I will continue to grow because of the way he has taught me to think." - Entrepreneur, Founder, Executive

"Brian's ability to, not only think outside of the box, but to help me approach various situations from multiple angles is simply, genius. His approach is methodical, authentic, and most importantly, leads to tangible results." - Fortune 500 Executive

"S. Brian Smith is the best damn coach I have ever worked with." - Entrepreneur

Business & Mindset Super Coach to Entrepreneurs

Forbes Coaches Council

Founding Member

Institute of Coaching, McLean/Harvard Medical School

The Institute of Coaching, McLean/Harvard Medical School advances research and education in coaching by bringing together leaders in the field to accelerate research progress and disseminate coaching's best practices.

Fellow

Unicorn Puff

Unicorn Puff is a brain trust of experienced entrepreneurs who help B2B agencies grow. We work with B2B service agencies who are ready to grow. If you’re stuck in one of these spots, we’ll help you take your agency to the next level:
- Founders who are focused on sales, rather than building the business
- Revenue growth has stalled or plateaued
- Despite outbound efforts, most of your sales come from referrals

Chief Executive Officer

Have2Have.it

Chief Marketing Officer / Chief Strategy Officer

Soldsie

Social Kapture

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

The Founders Organization

Conceived, built, and operated a paid membership group with 1500 founders throughout North America. Responsible for organizing and executing events in 35 cities throughout North America and large activations at SXSW.

COO / Head of Strategy

I free founders from ops, sales, & management | Founder @ Strategy Ladders | Coached 1000s of B2B and Agency owners | Stop struggling, start enjoying business ownership 🏖️

Are you a founder of a B2B service business or agency generating $2.5 million to $25 million in revenue?

You've tasted success, but you know there's more potential.

You believe your business can reach 8 figures and beyond, but...

😒 You’re the primary strategist for clients.  
😧 You lack a high-level operations leader.  
😖 You’re the main revenue driver.  

You’re exactly who we help.

Imagine a business that thrives without you. A business where your team drives growth, not just maintains it. A business that gives you freedom—not more stress.

❌ Your team struggles to run the business without you.  
❌ Your growth isn’t on track to meet your goals.  
❌ Your team is solid but not equipped to scale to the next level.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

At Strategy Ladders, we’re not just another option—we’re the only serious option for founders ready to scale their 7-figure business to new heights. Our team is unparalleled—every strategy advisor is an 8-figure founder who’s been in your shoes, scaled their businesses, and knows how to help you achieve explosive growth.

Our program provides direct access to a handpicked team of world-class experts in marketing, sales, operations, project management, finance, HR, and more. These aren’t just consultants—they’re industry leaders who’ve built, scaled, and exited businesses like yours.

With Strategy Ladders, you’ll do more than scale from 7 figures to 8 figures—you’ll transform your role in the business. You’ll step out of the daily grind and into true business ownership, where your business works for you, not the other way around.

Here’s what we deliver:

✅ A growth system that injects rocket fuel into your business 🚀  
✅ Strategies that make your business work for you, not the other way around 💎  
✅ Freedom from being irreplaceable ⛓  
✅ A clear path to becoming an owner, not just an operator 💪  
✅ Maximizing the value of your business 💰

Our results speak for themselves:  
"Working with Strategy Ladders has transformed my business and my outlook on life. Their expertise and insight are unparalleled."

"Thanks to Strategy Ladders, I went from 60-hour workweeks to 40, with a clear plan to reduce further. Their guidance is worth every investment."

If you’re ready for exponential growth and a real transformation in your business and life, let’s talk.

One final note: We’re not here to make you corporate. We challenge the status quo, and we will challenge YOU to achieve greatness.

🪜 Visit www.strategyladders.com to schedule a call and discover how we can elevate your business to the next level.

Founder & Head of Strategy

The Strategy Ladder Program delivers MASSIVE results to agencies, consultancies, and service businesses.

If your business is 25-85 employees, partially or fully remote, and you're stuck trying to "level-up," I will transform it with you.

The Strategy Ladder System will get you UNSTUCK. You'll develop a bullet-proof strategy that grows with your business, streamlines operations, scales your revenue, and sets your business up to continue to grow without you.

The Strategy Ladder System doesn't just change your business. It will transform YOU. You'll undergo a mental reset that frees you from the anxiety and beliefs that tie you to the day-to-day in your business. You're the leader of your business - if you don't change, your business never will.

The Strategy Ladder System has worked for over 400 entrepreneurs, delivering & implementing strategies that have:

💥 Scaled an agency from $150k to $4mil ARR in 10 months

💥 Increased a digital marketing agency’s productivity levels by over 450%, dramatically increasing profitability

💥 Streamlined a SaaS product’s roadmap, reducing development costs by 45% while increasing execution speed by over 25%.

💥 Developed and executing a repositioning strategy that landed a web development agency a long-term contract with a Fortune 100 company

💥 Repositioned of an app development agency that grew recurring revenue from 2% to over 50% of total revenue within three month

💥 Built a sales organization of 65 sales people in two years

💥 Orchestrated & executed a legal & and business strategy that lead to a sale of key assets of a SaaS platform for a significant premium over the market value of the company

Farmer Group | Florist Farms | Head & Heal | Blotter | Tune

Director Supply Chain Management

Alloy Personal Training Franchise

Alloy’s fitness program was created in 1992 around a very straightforward philosophy: people who get personalized coaching get better results. Today, Alloy programs are among the most effective programs in the world for helping people, especially those over 50, who want to look and feel their absolute best.

With our team of physiologists, therapists, dieticians and other advisory board behavioral specialists, we have created a program where cutting-edge science meets real, in-the-trenches experience.
Over the years, our programs have been powering a variety of gyms and fitness systems. Alloy training and tools are leveraged in locations across the globe. Today, we aim to bring these highly effective programs to even more members and communities, through the exclusive Alloy gym franchise model, with optimal coach-to-client ratios, customized workout plans, effective tracking tools, flexible membership options, and more.

Owner

JMA Wireless

Plant Manager

Director Materials Management

Inventory Control and Supplier Quality Manager

Supply Chain Risk and Supplier Quality Manager

Amphenol Aerospace

Purchasing: 85M in spend consisting of consignment programs, pricing agreements, raw materials and commodities to support production and the site wide revenue stream. Supplier on time delivery and development both domestic and international. Make vs buy coordination to maximize product savings and leveraging.
Planning: responsible for component planning across the Sidney NY facility to support factory loads, revenue and on time delivery. Responsible for factory loads correlating to hours attainment and meeting monthly metric objectives. Driving down cycle time through continuous improvement and identification of bottle necks within factory. 
Logistics: responsible for material dock to stock, inventory control and metrics.
Business Unit management: 8M in revenue per month. Responsible for schedule attainment and on time delivery to our customers within the product line. Work cross functionally to ensure site objectives are met.

Senior Materials Manager / Business Unit Manager

Operations Manager Board Level and Filter Products

Operations Manager - Board Level Products

INFICON

Lead Team of 11 employees
17M in warehouse and stockroom (Kardex/Remstar) inventory.
99.9% Logistics department on time delivery 2016 and 2017.
98.5% accuracy for warehouse managed inventory (2016-2017).
92.4% decrease in shipping misses due to process improvements restructured floor layout and identified waste elimination.
Drove department overtime hours down 59.3% over the past year, this is a direct correlation to process improvements.
Cross training plan and schedule launched for January 2017 to ensure adaptability and flexibility among workforce. 
Wireless printing/scanning/confirmation project underway estimated completion Fall 2017.
Cross functional project - IT.X-Press shipping module launch date August 2017.

Material Control and Logistics Manager

SAP WM roll-out and implementation team
Process documents for WM transactions
Mass Master Data Loads (MM17) migration of material from IM to WM (7000 + parts)
Inventory reduction team 2M for 2016
	- Dead Stock
	- Inventory turns/Consumption Patterns
	- Re-Order Points and Lot Sizing analysis
	- Safety stock level analysis
Electronic Kanban implementation team
	- 2000 + parts 
	- Part analysis – what is the best strategy for material (Pick/KBN/POU/Bulk)
        - Replenishment size based on consumption patterns
        - Control Cycle analysis
SE16 Table proficiency 
Implementation of High Bay into WM (500 parts) Fixed bin for optimization of space and efficiency
Proficient in Power Pick Global (VLM) software that directly interfaces with SAP 
Heavy usage and understanding of WM and Master Data and PP modules in SAP
Manage and analyze LL01, COGI, LT23, LB13 for Kanban replenishment, LX03 interim storage type

SAP Business Analyst

Lockheed Martin

Responsible for identifying stagnant IM and WM movement types in SAP report LL01. Analyze disconnects in dock to stock process SAP using WM transactions ensuring system integrity and accurate inventory records. Serve as PCR or program change request lead. Work with the COS core team to implement changes as identified by the materials management group within SAP to make our PP and WM groups run as efficient as possible. Served as POC for Production Control and Master Scheduling regarding PP/WM Stockroom/Order issues. RFID implementation Lead for warehousing material and production order delivery.

Material Support Team Member Sr./SAP WM/IM Team Lead

Operations Leadership Development Program 

Production Controller - Operations

My warrior code is: holding myself and others accountable, living with high integrity, leading by example, developing and mentoring those I share space with (in any capacity), never settling, giving maximum effort in all that I do.  I've earned some papers along the way that demonstrate I'm capable of learning and applying, however I've always believed in letting my WORK speak.

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