EXM Certified Business Coach · Greenville, SC · Territory TBC ⚑

Ren Flickinger

Certified Business Coach · Exit Momentum

Ren built the #1 foundation-repair sales team in North America and helped take a family-owned company from $35M to $100M+ in three years. Now he builds the sales engine, the systems, and the leaders that make growth repeatable.

Sales & people-development expert7+ years of sales & leadership coachingGrew team sales $30M → $100M+
Ren Flickinger, Certified Business Coach · Exit Momentum

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Who Ren works best with

Let's not waste each other's time: Ren isn't for every owner. He's for the one whose growth lives or dies on a sales team, and who's done watching that team run on a couple of heroes and a whole lot of hustle.

He works best with owners of $10M, $20M, $50M-and-up companies who are genuinely good at this and have hit the point where effort alone has flat-out stopped scaling. Ren has lived that ceiling from the inside, he's carried a bag, run a region, and built a sales organization from nothing, so he knows the difference between a team that's busy and a team that's built. And he'll tell you up front: a sales engine that only runs on intensity will always cap out. Every time. The teams that keep climbing run on structure, ownership, and leaders who can carry a number without you in the room. If you're hoping someone will just light a fire under your reps and call it strategy, Ren's the wrong call.

You're my kind of client if:

You're Ren's kind of client if:

 

  • You're scaling a real company, $10M and climbing toward $20M, $50M, and beyond, with a team and real revenue, and the growth has gotten heavier, not easier.
  • Your revenue rides on a sales team, and you already know, quietly, that it's running on a few big personalities and constant pressure instead of a system.
  • You want to build leaders, not just squeeze out more deals this quarter, managers who own a piece of the business the way you do.
  • You want someone who has actually built and led a #1 sales organization in their lane, not a theorist handing you a binder.
How Ren coaches

Most owners try to grow by pushing the team harder. Ren does the opposite, and it's why his teams keep producing after the spike: he builds the structure and the leaders underneath the revenue, so the sales engine runs without burning people out and without depending on you to drive it.

He learned this the way that actually sticks: by doing it. Ren started with two jobs, selling phones by day, bartending at night, not chasing titles, chasing growth. That work ethic moved fast. At 23 he was the youngest Best Buy Mobile store manager in his region, learning exactly what pressure feels like when the scoreboard is real and the outcomes are yours. Then Apple, account manager over major third-party retail partnerships, watching up close how high-performing organizations actually operate at scale, and growing those retail assets from $12 million to more than $35 million a year. And then the chapter that shaped everything: inside a faith-based, family-owned foundation-repair and basement-systems company, a sales role became leadership within months. Ren built a 20-person team into the top-performing foundation-repair sales organization in North America, and, through a real business operating system, helped take the company from $35 million to over $100 million in just three years.

But here's the part that actually drives him, and it's the tell. As that business grew, Ren stopped selling and started building, coaching sales managers who each ran their own business units inside the company. That's the work he's best at: turning strong closers into real leaders who own their results. His core belief isn't about talent. It's blunt: most people are capable of far more than they've been shown, and the right structure, leadership, and discipline can change the entire trajectory of a career or a company.

The whole model, every coach: every EXM coach works the full 3D Momentum Model: Direction, Design, and Dynamic. Ren goes deepest on the sales engine and the people development that make growth repeatable. See the 3D Momentum Model →

Ren's background

Ren's career was built in the real world, not a textbook, and it shows. He started with long days, late nights, and a hard belief that personal responsibility changes everything. He's been proving it ever since.

No roadmap, no perfect plan. Early on, Ren worked two jobs, phones during the day, bartending at night. He wasn't chasing a title; he was chasing growth, and he wanted to learn what it actually takes to perform, to lead, and to earn opportunity through results. The work ethic opened doors fast.

At 23, youngest Best Buy Mobile store manager in his region, a stretch that taught him what real pressure feels like when the scoreboard is live and the outcomes land on you. Then Apple, as an account manager over major third-party retail partnerships, learning how high-performing organizations operate at scale and pushing retail assets from $12 million to more than $35 million annually. But the chapter that made him was the next one: inside a faith-based, family-owned foundation-repair company, a sales role became leadership in months, and Ren saw firsthand what happens when a company actually commits to structure, discipline, and execution.

Youngest Best Buy Mobile store manager in his region at 23, early proof that performance, not tenure, earns the seat.

Apple account manager, grew major third-party retail partnerships from $12M to $35M+ annually.

Built the #1 foundation-repair sales team in North America, a 20-person organization, top-performing on the continent.

Helped take a faith-based, family-owned company from $35M to over $100M in three years, on the back of a disciplined business operating system.

Developed sales leaders who each ran their own business units, his move from closing deals to building the people who close them.

Results

The proof is the work. Judge it there.

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.)

What working with Ren looks like

No mystery and no pressure. Here's exactly how it goes.

1

We start with a conversation

You book a call with Ren, and you get honest, fast, about whether the fit is right. If it isn't, Ren will say so.

2

The 3D Diagnostic

A focused session, just you and Ren, digging into your Direction, Design, and Dynamic. You can't see how big the mountain is while you're climbing it.

3

The Leadership Lab

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.

4

Ongoing coaching

A steady rhythm: clarity of direction, systems and cadence, and the leadership development that sharpens you and your team.

Questions people ask about Ren

Straight answers.

Who does Ren Flickinger work best with?
Owners of $10M–$50M+ companies whose growth depends on a sales team, especially owners who feel that team is running on a few strong personalities and a lot of pressure instead of a repeatable system. Ren's specialty is the sales engine and the people behind it: building the structure that makes revenue repeatable, and developing sales leaders who can own their results. Industry matters far less to him than whether the owner is ready to build both.
What makes Ren different from other coaches?
He built the thing he coaches. Before joining Exit Momentum, Ren built a 20-person team into the #1 foundation-repair sales organization in North America and helped scale a family-owned company from $35 million to over $100 million in three years, on the back of a real operating system and leaders he developed himself. He started by carrying a bag (two jobs out of the gate, youngest Best Buy Mobile store manager in his region at 23, then Apple), so he coaches the sales engine from the inside, not from a textbook.
Where is Ren based, and who can he coach?
Ren is based in Greenville, SC, and works with clients nationwide. (⚑ Confirm territory: the current bio lists "the Midwest," which conflicts with a Greenville, SC base, see flags. Coaching is done in a rhythm that fits a busy owner's schedule, so location isn't a barrier.)
What framework does Ren use?
EXM's 3D Momentum Model, a triangle of Direction, Design, and Dynamic that all have to hold. Ren is strongest on the Dynamic side (developing the people and leaders who carry the growth, he calls this the most fulfilling part of the work) and where it meets the Design side (the operating system that turned a $35M company into a $100M+ one). Inside the Lab, he pressure-tests people, purpose, process, and performance through that 3D lens.
Does Ren only coach sales?
Sales and people development are his sharpest edge, but the work is whole-business. Ren came up through sales, but his most formative chapter was leadership, developing managers who each ran their own business unit, and he scaled a company by installing a full operating system, not just a sales playbook. He coaches the seam where your revenue engine, your systems, and your leaders meet.
What happens on the first call?
A straight, no-pressure conversation about where your business is, where you want to take it, and whether Ren is the right coach for the job. If he's not a fit, he'll tell you. If he is, he'll walk you through how he'd approach your situation, starting with the 3D Diagnostic.

If any of this is hitting close to home, let's talk.

The owners Ren 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.

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A straight, no-pressure conversation about where your business is and whether Ren is the right coach for the job.

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