Operating Partner

Knowing isn’t the problem.

You need someone with the operating bandwidth and the discipline to act on it, alongside you, until the changes hold. That’s what I do.

The result

What becomes true.

The brand and the operation agree.

What you say about the business and how it actually runs finally tell one story.

You charge what the work is worth.

Your prices catch up to the value the work delivers.

The team gets stronger.

The seats around you get filled by people who can actually carry them.

The business becomes an asset.

Worth something on its own, so you could sell it or step away.

The work

Six of the loud ones.

  1. 01.

    Renegotiate the vendor pricing you stopped questioning.

  2. 02.

    Stop the payables bleed.

  3. 03.

    Cut the spend that looks efficient but earns nothing.

  4. 04.

    Move the prices you’ve been afraid to touch.

  5. 05.

    Rebuild the trust between you and the team, or help you find a team that wants to be in the room.

  6. 06.

    Make the operating calls that have sat on your list for months, or years.

I come in, do the work, and stay until it holds. Then I leave, and it keeps running without me. The work is the deliverable, not a hire you carry for years.

How I work

You bring your goals. I produce the outcomes.

I embed in the business, do the work alongside you, and stay until the change holds on its own. The result is a business that is stronger than any one person in it, including you.

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Track record

Twenty-three years across nine industries, reading the business as both brand and operation.

The same instinct, two decades apart.

2002

Priest Holmes

Built the off-field deal book that turned an NFL career into a brand.

2020–present

Black Houston & Houston Grub Park

Built a community platform that carried hundreds of Houston restaurants through the pandemic.

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Get in touch

Tell me the outcome you need. I will be candid about whether I can produce it.

I take a few clients at a time, by reference. Every message reaches me directly.

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