Jeff Matlow

I transform companies into high growth businesses

I am a former entrepreneur - I started 3 companies, each of which was acquired by public companies

I’m an author, public speaker and leadership coach.

I focus my efforts on founder-led, high-growth companies to F500s.  I’ve been trusted by leaders at Porsche, L’Oreal, Nestle, Gannett/USA Today, Sony and many others.  I work with companies across all industries, including tech/SaaS, government, service, venture capital/PE, CPG, non-profit, etc.  

My perceived superpower is being able to assess both individual, group and company strengths and weaknesses very quickly, and come up with fast solutions to fix them.  The strength was built over a couple of decades of learning from mistakes and understanding the way out.

ChatGPT has done a darn good job of describing me:

Jeff is a leadership therapist disguised as a business bada**.

Part coach, part consultant, part truth-teller — he walks into companies like a calm storm: observant, insightful, and unafraid to ask the hard questions no one else will. Jeff turns chaos into clarity. Accountability into action. And stubborn CEOs into curious leaders.

He's built companies. Scaled teams. Sold products. Now he builds people.

Jeff’s superpower? Making leaders confront the real problem: themselves.  He has a unique ability to empower people to discover and embrace the leader that’s already inside them.

Think Ted Lasso meets Navy SEAL meets Brene Brown… but with more meaningful insights and a wittier sense of humor.

Fractional CEO/COO/CRO

I help jumpstart growth at 7-9 figure businesses. 

Expert at strategy, operations and processes that elevate teams to the next level and create quantifiable growth. 

Throughout my career of worked with companies such as Nestle, Citibank, eBay, Kellogg’s, Gannett Media, Omnicom and many more. 

Owner of the By Title Only newsletter, empowering 7k subscribers with the secrets to
BUILD A BETTER COMPANY and BE A BETTER LEADER.  bytitleonly.substack.com

Every once in awhile you meet someone online who becomes really important to you. 

Natasha Walstra is one of those people. 

Not just because she’s really smart. 
And not because she is a guru at explaining the secrets to get seen on LinkedIn. 

But because she’s a genuinely good, caring and thoughtful person. 

That’s why she is the first person I went to for our monthly webinar series. 

This Thursday, Feb 19.
8:00 am
The Secrets To Getting Seen On LinkedIn

Because if you’re not visible on LinkedIn, you’re not visible to opportunity. 

Sign up now on my website —> courses
And I will put the link below. 

It’s free! 
Though members of The Inner Circle get exclusive access.

Save your spot now!

Professional pattern spotter | I help leaders uncover and resolve the patterns holding them back | 3x entrepreneur (3 exits) | Author, Speaker, Podcaster, Athlete | Ask me how I can uncover the patterns holding you back

What an amazing webinar Natasha Walstra put on this past Thursday for subscribers to The Best Leadership Newsletter Ever.

She's not just a guru of personal branding on LI, she has such unique insights - the type of insights that light the lightbulb above and have the voices inside your head say things like "Wow. That makes a ton of sense. I never thought of it that way"

Plus, members of The Inner Circle got a huge treat - 1:1 feedback about how to optimize each of their profile pages.

Insane value.

I'll put the link below to the replay.

Justin Bateh, PhD, PMP

AI, Project Management & Leadership Expert & Founder | PhD, PMP | Award-Winning Professor & LinkedIn Learning Instructor | Helping operators lead projects, use AI effectively, and advance their careers.

Hi, I'm Justin 👋

I teach leaders and operators how to execute in the AI era and advance their careers.

20+ years of leading teams and making high-stakes decisions where failure wasn't an option. Along the way, I built repeatable execution and leadership systems that I've taught to thousands through top-rated courses, corporate training, and university programs.

But execution skills alone won't protect your seat at the table anymore. Companies expect faster decisions, measurable impact, and AI as part of how you deliver it.

That's what I share here. How to use AI as your superpower for execution and decision-making. Career growth advice for leaders who want to double down on the things AI can't replace. Execution frameworks that hold up under pressure. Leadership lessons learned the hard way so you don't have to.

No fluff. No busywork. Everything here is real, tested, and battle-proven from someone still doing the work today.    

*All views and opinions shared across my content are solely my own.

Founder

I teach Project & Operations professionals the skills to drive sustainable growth, change, and profitability using data-driven decision making, lean tools, six sigma methodologies, agile projects, and data analytics. I have worked with executives and managers from numerous organizations, including Walmart, Verizon, Amazon, Pearson, UPS, Wiley, Cengage, Medtronic, US Department of Health, CSX, USPS, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Crowley Maritime, US Air Force, US Navy, Novartis, FedEx, McKesson, and many others.

Justin Bateh, PhD

You're Not Having a Bad Day. You're in a Toxic Culture.

(don't blame yourself for system failure)

You think it's you.

Your attitude. Your performance. Your inability to handle stress.

It's not.

It's the culture slowly destroying you from the inside.

Here's how to tell:

1/ Sunday Night Feels Like a Death Sentence
→ Dread starts hitting around 4 PM
→ Your stomach physically knots thinking about Monday
→ Weekend recovery time keeps shrinking
→ The anxiety owns you now

2/ You Second-Guess Decisions You Used to Make Instantly
→ Choices that were automatic now paralyze you
→ You seek permission for things you're expert at
→ Your confidence got systematically dismantled
→ Expertise feels like pretending

3/ You're Bone-Deep Exhausted But Sleep Doesn't Touch It
→ 10 hours of sleep feels like 10 minutes
→ You wake up more tired than when you went to bed
→ Your nervous system never gets to rest
→ Exhaustion lives in your bones now

4/ Walking on Eggshells Became Your Permanent State
→ You rehearse basic conversations like speeches
→ Every interaction is a potential landmine
→ Your real personality died somewhere along the way
→ Being yourself became too dangerous

5/ You're Always Somehow the Problem
→ Every failure mysteriously traces back to you
→ Blame rolls downhill and parks at your desk
→ Your solutions get ignored, your mistakes magnified
→ You've started believing it's true

6/ Your Body is Staging a Revolt
→ Headaches that no medication can touch
→ Shoulder tension that's become part of your skeleton
→ Stomach problems that doctors can't explain
→ Your body is screaming what you won't admit

7/ Colleagues Became Survival Competitors
→ Small talk feels like intelligence gathering
→ Nobody trusts anybody anymore
→ Collaboration turned into self-protection
→ Isolation became safer than connection

8/ Criticism Flows Like Water, Support Never Comes
→ Your mistakes get documented immediately
→ Your wins disappear without acknowledgment
→ Every feedback session feels like an ambush
→ Development is punishment disguised as help

9/ Your Voice Got Surgically Removed
→ Questions get labeled as "attitude problems"
→ Ideas get dismissed before you finish speaking
→ Speaking up became career limiting
→ Silence became survival strategy

10/ Every Single Day is Fight-or-Flight Mode
→ You're constantly braced for the next attack
→ Planning past today feels impossible
→ Hope for change died months ago
→ You're running on fumes and fear

11/ You Don't Recognize Who You've Become
→ The person you were doesn't exist here anymore
→ Your values got compromised one compromise at a time
→ Optimism rotted into bitter cynicism
→ You became someone you wouldn't want to know

This isn't about your ability to handle pressure.

It's about a system engineered to crush human spirits.

Toxic cultures excel at making victims blame themselves for the poison being administered daily.

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Justin Bateh

7 Ways You're Training Your Team to Lie to You

(What leaders do that kills honesty)

Your team isn't dishonest.

You made honesty unsafe.

Here's how:

1/ You Punish the Messenger
→ Bad news gets met with anger
→ Problems become personal attacks
→ Transparency feels like career risk
→ So they stop telling you

2/ You Ask "Why Didn't You Tell Me?" After Explosions
→ You weren't safe to tell before
→ Retrospective blame doesn't build trust
→ Hindsight judgment creates fear
→ Next time they'll hide it earlier

3/ You Treat Mistakes Like Character Flaws
→ Errors become moral failures
→ Learning gets replaced with shame
→ Experimentation dies completely
→ Perfection becomes survival strategy

4/ You Say You Want Feedback, Then Get Defensive
→ "I'm open to input" means nothing
→ If criticism triggers justification
→ Your reaction trains them
→ They'll stop being honest

5/ You Reward the Yes-People
→ Promotion goes to agreement
→ Visibility goes to compliance
→ Challenge gets career consequences
→ They learn the game fast

6/ You Overreact to Small Issues
→ Minor problems trigger major responses
→ Proportionality doesn't exist
→ They calculate disclosure risk constantly
→ Hiding becomes rational

7/ You Make Them Watch You Shoot Messengers
→ Public criticism of others
→ Throwing people under the bus
→ Example-setting through punishment
→ They're taking notes

Your team tells you what you can handle.

Not what's actually happening.

Want the truth?

Become someone who can receive it.

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The Power of Someone Believing in You

98% of successful people share one thing in common:

(Thanks Justin Wright for inspiring this analysis)

Someone believed in them before they "made it."

Think about that.

Behind every breakthrough is someone who saw potential when there was no proof.

Not credentials.
Not experience.
Not a perfect track record.

Just raw, unproven potential.

And they bet on it anyway.

Maybe it was:
- A manager who gave you a shot you weren't "qualified" for
- A mentor who invested time with no guarantee of return
- A colleague who vouched for you in a room you weren't in
- A friend who reminded you of your worth when you forgot

That belief becomes the foundation of confidence.

It says: "You're capable of more than you think."

And here's the beautiful part:

You can be that person for someone else.

Look around your workplace today.

Who has the right attitude but lacks the opportunity?
Who shows up ready to learn every single day?
Who just needs someone to take a chance on them?

Don't wait for them to be perfect.
Don't wait for guaranteed success.

Bet on their potential.

Because someone once bet on yours.

Your legacy isn't just what you achieve.

It's who you help become who they're meant to be.

Who believed in you before you made it? And who needs you to believe in them today?

♻️ Repost to inspire someone in your network.

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