Entrepreneurship

Growing up as the 8th child out of 9 kids, I learned early on that if I wanted to experience the finer things in life, I was going to have to earn them! When only 8 years old, my brother and I shared a paper route in the Seattle Area and learned the lessons of Sales, Fulfillment, Working with Vendors, Collections, and managing AP accounts.

Was it worth it?

YES! I spent the next 5 years alternating between newspapers, and building up the largest number of clients per available houses in the region. As you can see on my timeline below, there have only been a few breaks from entrepreneurship during my entire life!

One of the most important things I learned was that with hard work and focus, you can put yourself into nearly any industry you choose and apply the same principles of management to achieve a great measure of success. Not all of the businesses on the left were winners, but all of them generated revenue!

My greatest challenge in entrepreneurship?

Getting burned by savvy investors. In a couple of verticals I jumped into, it was impossible to scale without significant investment. Having been burned twice, I decided to continue building businesses I could bootstrap, and have managed to build several multi-million dollar companies in multiple cities and countries throughout the US and Asia.

I have been very involved in the startup community in Utah, and have been able to work with dozens of startups in helping to build out their revenue models and establish their business culture and personalities.

Team Building/ Culture Strategist

In 2014, a close friend of mine and I were able to create an amazing business building out activities that inspired some amazing team building with businesses of all sizes in a friendly B2B environment, The Biz Games.

What I learned was that many of the mid to large size businesses were envious of the cultures found in the smaller startup community, and would inquire as to how they could build the same environment into their companies.`

This led to the last 5 years working with several of the worlds largest corporations, listed on the right, providing Team Building, Executive Team Leadership Training, and Culture Change Consulting from a very unique perspective… from a small business master!

In 2019 I decided to peel the management and consulting side of the business away from The Biz Games and combine the Executive Training and Culture Consulting with a series of Vision Strategies into a new business, Mokuteki LLC.

Vision Strategist

After working with teams in some of the largest companies in the world, I discovered that most large companies really struggle to establish a strong culture in their work environment. Lots of money is spent trying to launch initiatives through less than effective means of delivery that employees are not likely to implement.

With my experience in creating high levels of engagement through activities, I learned that experiential training among ALL levels of employees brings a much higher rate of adoption of any new messaging that leadership is trying to disseminate to their teams.

The process of determining the companies vision and delivering it to the teams is called the “Mokuteki Method“. The word Mokuteki is a Japanese word derived of 2 characters. “Moku”, meaning Vision, and “Teki” meaning the way you do things. In other words, The act of Aligning Actions With Vision is the literal meaning of Mokuteki.

Build Remote Teams

So many Leaders in Small to Mid-Size Companies have a hard time assembling the right People, Processes, and Tools to grow their businesses.

After interviewing over 250 CEO's and Founders during the pandemic, I found that those 3 issues were the most common challenges holding them back from true growth.

In an effort to support these founders struggling with these challenges, I have taken the challenge off of their plates by building remote teams of amazing talent in specialized fields. Take a look at withmoku.com to see what things YOU can get done with Moku!