Where To?
Let's have a free 60-minute call to discuss how we can position and prepare your organization for where you want it to go.
Are you running your organization... or is it running you?
align. clarify. focus.
ALIGN YOUR LEADERSHIP
Let's build a successful and sustainable organization from the top down: A strong leadership team that places the organization above themselves and their departments, is open and honest, fosters trust, and authentically answers the question "where are we now?"
CLARIFY YOUR VISION
If you don't know where you're going, how do you ever expect to get there? Let's determine exactly what your organization is on this planet to do, set our sights on some seemingly impossible goals, and give your team clarity on "where are we going?"
FOCUS YOUR TEAM
Finally, let's implement an integrated operating model that focuses each person’s time and energy, allowing them to complete their weekly to-do’s, quarterly deliverables, annual plans, and eventually... your vision. Bring purpose to every move your team makes by answering "how are we going to get there?"
How about a chat?
"THE FIRST LIGHT WAY"
The First Light Way is the roadmap for our Initial Engagement together and can be tailored to meet your specific needs and capacity. You are free to jump off this train whenever you need or leverage me indefinitely to grow with you as your journey unfolds. It will always be up to you.
1 | Introductory Call
1 | Introductory Call
1 | Introductory Call
A 60-minute complimentary phone call to learn all about you and your organization, hear a little bit more about me, and see if there's an opportunity for our paths to align.
2 | Kickoff Meeting
1 | Introductory Call
1 | Introductory Call
A conversation with your entire leadership team to bring clarity of the process and expectations, unity of goals and outputs, and to initiate our engagement together.
3 | Diagnostic
1 | Introductory Call
4 | Strategy Day
An organizational diagnostic exercise, which identifies the strengths and challenges unique to your organization, allowing for an engagement tailored to you.
4 | Strategy Day
5 | Roadmap Proposal
4 | Strategy Day
A full-day session to bring alignment to your leadership team and future positioning, and create a clear strategic plan with tangible tools and next steps for implementing it.
5 | Roadmap Proposal
5 | Roadmap Proposal
5 | Roadmap Proposal
A roadmap for continued implementation of these tools and processes, including recommended areas where I can support you and your future success.
6 | Onward & Upward
5 | Roadmap Proposal
5 | Roadmap Proposal
This is your decision point. You can run the implementation roadmap in-house or leverage me where you see fit, and we can march forward together as your journey unfolds.
THE FIRST LIGHT GUARANTEE
If we ever have an engagement that you don't find valuable... you don't pay a dime.
Ready to rock?
Why First Light?
Personally implemented.
I'm not bringing you any flavor-of-the-day strategies or pie-in-the-sky ideas. Everything I bring to the table is valuable, proven, and effective. How do I know? Because it's all the same tools I currently use day-in and day-out to lead our family's multi-site chiropractic company. Heck, my own kids can recite our family's mission statement and core values! Point is, I will never make you walk a path I'm not already walking myself.
Tailored approach.
The tools I bring to the table are just that; "tools" not a "gospel". I don't endorse one-size-fits-all approaches. I believe each organization's people, pace, and priorities are different and so I tailor each engagement accordingly. I will meet you right where you're at.
Here for You.
I have a heart for incredible visions, but even more so, the people that steward them. I'm on this planet to help people get where they want to go. I treat and care about you as a person first and foremost. It's all about you; for you. Your success is my success.
Let's get started
Notes from a few fans...
"Valuable results!"
“Having been part of many strategic planning exercises, I was highly impressed with Matt’s approach and time management. He defined the task, framed the day, led us through an inclusive visioning discussion, with a final exercise to choose our top goals and immediate next steps. The product was a tight one-page plan to be used immediately, not collecting dust on a shelf. Hiring Matt was time and money very well spent! I give him my highest recommendation.”
- Bob Elfstrand, Board of Directors, The Redemption Project
"Refreshingly different!"
"Working with Matt was different from the first conversation. Matt asked great questions and guided us through a well defined path. It was apparent throughout the process that Matt hasn't just learned about organizational leadership, but has lived it. I'd highly recommend Matt to any business who's serious about taking their business to the next level!"
- Joseph Godfrey, President, Van Clemens Wealth Management
"A trusted partner!"
“As the founder of a small business and serving on multiple non-profit boards myself, Matt has always been one of my most trusted partners. He has been using Traction or Traction-like methods and tools for well over a decade as he helps organizations drive forward and achieve their full potential. He is good at what he does, and I give him my highest endorsement!”
- Bill Bojan, Dean of the School of Business, Crown College
Start fresh with a new day, with a clear view, with First Light.
What are you waiting for?
About ME
Hi, my name is Matt...
and as the son of a business owner, and operating my own window cleaning business as a kid, you could say entrepreneurship is in my blood! After graduating from The University of St Thomas I enjoyed a wonderful career in Retail, working as a Buyer for Target and as a manufacturer's rep; throughout that time getting to partner with great companies like Amazon, Sony, & Samsonite, bringing big vision to end consumers.
It was with this rep firm that I was first exposed to, and implemented, the EOS Model™ (from the book Traction). Everything changed after that. I fell in love with the simple, tangible, & practical approach for bringing vision and strategy to life!
I left Retail to partner with my dad in bringing his vision of a multi-site chiropractic company to life. I once again implemented EOS®, and functioning as the Integrator, we’ve grown from 1 to 4 clinics. I quickly began to see that not only did I have a skillset for supporting leaders, but there was a gigantic need for organizations that continue to have the “pedal to the medal” but never quite seem to get where they want to go.
Because of this great need I launched First Light and have been partnering with organizations just like yours ever since.
And this wouldn't be an "About Me" without mentioning the 3 most important priorities in my life; being husband to my wonderful wife, Megan, and father to my Son, Finley, and daughter, Hazel.
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