Business Owners & Entrepreneurs Podcast with Peter Boolkah | Business Coach | The Transition Guy®

Growing, Scaling & Selling a Business with John Ratliff, CEO of Scaling Up Coaches -- TTG103

Peter Boolkah

John is currently CEO of Scaling Up Coaches and Managing Director & Partner of align5 advisors. In his leadership role of Scaling Up Coaches, John will be utilizing years of business experience and relationships with business thought leaders to grow a dynamic community of coaches impacting entrepreneurs and scaling companies around the globe. With over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, CEO and investment banker, he co-founded align5 advisors in 2013 (in partnership with STS Capital) to advise growth company entrepreneurs and family enterprises on a variety of strategic issues including sell-side and buy-side M&A.

Before founding align5 advisors, John was a Managing Director with STS Capital Partners, a boutique investment bank specializing in middle-market M&A.

John was also the President and CEO of Appletree Answers, a telephone answering service company he founded in 1995. He grew the company organically by implementing strategies from Rockefeller Habits 2.0, and through a series of acquisitions to 24 U.S. locations and 650 employees. John sold Appletree Answers to a strategic buyer in June 2012. John is passionate about strategy, company culture and employee engagement. In addition to growing the company's revenue and profitability, Appletree Answers had a remarkably low turnover rate of 18% versus the industry average of 110%.

John comes into his role in the coaching organization having spent the last 5 years as a strategic advisor to Verne Harnish and Scaling Up. He is active in Virgin Unite, a charitable foundation created by Sir Richard Branson.

John lives in Wilmington, Delaware, with his wife Lynne and their three children. As an avid pilot, John flies his TBM 850 single-engine turboprop plane for both business and pleasure

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ABOUT PETER BOOLKAH
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Peter Boolkah (AKA The Transition Guy) is the World’s #1 Business Transition Coach whose main passion in life is to work with talented and high performing business owners who are in the process of creating exciting, high growth businesses. 

Peter helps you to navigate and transition through the crucial growth pains that a

CONNECT WITH PETER BOOLKAH:
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http://www.Boolkah.com
https://www.facebook.com/Boolkah
https://www.instagram.com/pboolkah/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/boolkah
https://twitter.com/boolkah

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ABOUT PETER BOOLKAH
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Peter Boolkah (AKA The Transition Guy) is the World’s #1 Business Transition Coach whose main passion in life is to work with talented and high performing business owners who are in the process of creating exciting, high growth businesses.

Peter helps you to navigate and transition through the crucial growth pains that all growing businesses experience making it as painless and exciting as possible.

It is important to remember that businesses do not just grow and develop on their own, it is up to us and our teams to make this happen by making every day purposeful.

As businesses grow some parts of the journey will be easier than others and most owners do not have all the answers. Starting a business is one of the most exciting things we get to do and we all have aspirations of achieving great things. In fact Peter is yet to meet someone who started a business with the intention of failing.

Peter’s ultimate life goal is to inspire and empower over 100,000 Entrepreneurs to create long term thriving businesses resulting in the creation of 1,000,000 jobs.

So if you are scaling up your business, you’re in a bu...