Certified Business Coach · Exit Momentum
Michael took his family's third-generation business from $25M to $80M and exited clean. Now he helps $10M–$50M+ owners build the systems and the leaders that let a company keep scaling without eating the life behind it.
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He works best with owners of $10M, $20M, $50M-and-up companies who are good at this and have hit the wall that shows up when growth outpaces structure. Michael has stood exactly where you are. He and his brother set out to grow their family's company well past two locations and 50 employees, and they were dead set on doing it without torching what mattered most. So he knows the specific weight of a company that's climbing fast: the cash pressure, the operational constraints, the way every new win lights three new fires. And he'll tell you up front, it does not break by working more hours. You've already tried that.
You're my kind of client if:
He didn't learn this from a book. He learned it the way that sticks, by living it. When his family's company hit a serious growth phase, Michael led the self-implementation of a business operating system himself: structure, accountability, clarity, installed into an organization scaling fast. Within 12 to 18 months the benefits were measurable. Then he and his brother brought in Exit Momentum for advanced strategy and leadership development, and the thing took off, $25 million to a peak of $80 million, two locations to six, a manufacturing arm added, and a strategic acquisition to close it out. Michael ran the exact playbook he now coaches. So when he teaches it, it isn't theory. It's a receipt.
But here's the part that actually drives him. Somewhere in all that scaling, Michael figured out that the growth metrics weren't the thing, developing the people inside the business was. Through every phase, he stayed locked on building leaders who could sustain the growth once it landed. That's the whole difference between a company that spikes and a company that holds. Most owners never make that distinction. Michael built his entire second act on it.
The whole model, every coach: every EXM coach works the full 3D Momentum Model: Direction, Design, and Dynamic. Michael goes deepest at the seam between systems and leaders: the structure and the people that let a company keep scaling. See the 3D Momentum Model →
His business education started long before college. He watched his father take customer calls late into the evening and learned, first-hand, what ownership actually demands. By junior high he was loading trucks and running deliveries at the family lumber yard, picking up the things that never show up on a spreadsheet: reliability, service, follow-through. Through high school and college he got the wide-angle view, how sales, operations, and finance have to line up to keep customers and sustain growth.
After graduating in 2003, Michael felt called back to the family business, straight into the financial pressure and operational constraints that define a growing company. Alongside his brother, he started mapping an ambitious expansion: grow well past two locations and 50 employees, without sacrificing the one thing that mattered most, family. When the company hit its growth phase, he led the self-implementation of EOS®, structure, accountability, clarity, installed. Then the brothers brought in Exit Momentum to accelerate. The results compounded fast.
Third-generation family business owner, grew up in the business and came back to lead it.
Scaled the company from $25M to a peak of $80M in revenue, roughly 3x, expanding from 2 to 6 locations and adding a manufacturing division.
Self-implemented EOS®, establishing execution discipline and operational clarity in the middle of rapid growth, then brought in Exit Momentum to pour gas on it.
Completed a strategic acquisition in 2024, when the company was acquired by another third-generation family business, a real, clean exit, not a story he tells.
Client-turned-coach, Michael lived the EXM method as a client before he ever joined as a coach, so he teaches it from the inside out.
Coach-specific client results publish here as Marki validates attribution, quotes, and permission from the proof workbook. Until then, the firm-level bar stands.
★★★★★ Exit Momentum holds a 4.97 average across 189 Google reviews, one of the strongest review profiles in the category. (Attributed to the firm, never to an individual coach.)
You book a call with Michael, and you get honest, fast, about whether the fit is right. If it isn't, Michael will say so.
A focused session, just you and Michael, digging into your Direction, Design, and Dynamic. You can't see how big the mountain is while you're climbing it.
Your leadership team in the room. Momentum is a team sport. You walk out with a clear, honest picture of exactly what to fix first.
A steady rhythm: clarity of direction, systems and cadence, and the leadership development that sharpens you and your team.
The owners Michael works with are usually doing the work only they can do, because the business still runs straight through them. That's the real ceiling, and it does not break by working harder.
(225) 351-7878A straight, no-pressure conversation about where your business is and whether Michael is the right coach for the job.
