Currently hiring a Digital Marketing Manager for Mission Hotels, click the “Now Hiring” link in my profile to apply | COO at Anchor ⚓️ | 100x Leadership | #KeepImpacting | The Best is Ahead → Always

Coaching CEOs, Presidents, Founders and Owners to achieve radically outsized results through executive coaching and consulting.

What I Do:

High-impact executive coaching, working exclusively with 6-9 select clients at a time who are committed to taking massive, fearless action.

Services include:

- Executive Coaching for CEOs, Founders, and Owners
- One-on-one 'Ideal Future State' Power Coaching Sessions for Growing Leaders

Expertise:

With over a decade of experience coaching hundreds of leaders, I've helped organizations across industries achieve exponential growth, from early-stage companies seeking product-market fit to established businesses surpassing $100M in revenue.

As a 3x EOS Integrator with professional experience in commercial real estate, SaaS, and ministry. Bringing proven frameworks and strategies to every engagement.

Helping leaders solve their most critical challenges, including:

- Top 5 people, process, or project problems
- Building scalable processes that work
- Hiring high-impact leaders who deliver results
- Identifying + executing on your top 3 opportunities
- Driving significant sales and revenue growth
- Creating & aligning a powerful leadership team

Approach:

I work by invitation and referral only with high-drive, high-integrity leaders who are ready to 10x their vision and achieve more with less, faster and better than they ever imagined.

Interested in learning more? 

Send me a DM. We'll set up a call to discuss your goals and determine if there's mutual fit.

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Additional Context:

No matter where I am, I intend to multiply leaders.

Life mottos: 

No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets. 
The best is ahead. Always. And Keep Impacting. 

Personal Values:

- Relentless Optimism
- Bias Toward Action
- Team > Self
- Aggressive Learning
- Focus on People & Results

How I think about life:

Healthy things grow w/ the right soil, sunlight, and root system to produce 30x, 60x, 100x impact. Creating maximum conditions for growth; Pruning all aspects of life that don’t produce fruit.

1, 5, 10, 20 year and Lifetime Targets:

- Impact 100 Lives: in 1 Year
- Impact 1,000 Lives: in 5 years
- Impact 10,000 Lives: in 10 Years
- Impact 100,000 Lives: in 20 years
- Impact 1,000,000 Lives: in my lifetime

Josh Etress ⚡️

3x this week I sent emails or texts suggesting meeting slots and ended them w/ “I’ll hold these slots for now and release them as soon as I hear back from you”

I’m not sure the psychology at play here, but all three instantly replied w/ a selection. Instantly.

New best practice.  

Until proven otherwise.

Coaching high-drive, high-integrity, high-impact CEOs, Presidents, Founders, and Owners | 3x EOS Integrator | Sharing wisdom w/ 27,000 humans seeking to be a little wiser every day | select engagements only

I have three sons and I’m intentional about what I teach them manhood means. 95% of it comes down to this (hat tip to Andrew Peterson):

- make a plan
- look at what you’re interested in 
- get disciplined about something

- allow for the possibility that you have something important to contribute to the world and that the world would be a lesser place w/o that contribution

- don’t be afraid of taking on responsibility
- it’s where you find what sustains you in life

True story: 

Same playbook I use for my life and coaching. 

13, 23, 33, 43, 53, 63, 73… 

Doesn’t matter. 

This. This right here. 

Is the plan.

The kindest thing you can do when leading others is to give them a crystal clear definition of done… aka DoD

Meaning, when you’re delegating 

You clearly state:

This project is done when “_________”

Ex: This project is done when the proposal is complete by Friday morning, has all of the relevant information for our internal team, and answers the top 3 questions and concerns.”

1 tip on how to use this:

Facts, feelings, functionality

If you’re DoD covers the facts (what has to be true), the feelings (how people will feel), and the functionality (how it will be used) when it’s done then you’ve appropriately given someone a DoD. 

Game changer if you’ve delegated only to get work back halfway complete. Mostly bc it was unclear what you were asking for to start with…

Keep Impacting,
-JE

P.S. h/t to the book Buy Back Your Time for this tip

What’s a piece of online wisdom that’s always felt off to you? Something you’ve read or seen that you disagree with. 

Sharing three below: 

1.  “Follow your passion and it will all work out”

Sometimes passion is developed over decades. Sometimes passions change. Sometimes you just need to do whatever is in front of you and keep paying attention to what lights you up inside. And sometimes the things you’re passionate about don’t work out and it’s time to find a new passion.

2.  “Don’t take no for an answer”

No is often the best answer and opens doorways to new opportunities. And, sometimes if you keep going when told no, it’s just freakin weird. 

3.   “Just be authentic”

This is not an excuse to say whatever you want. I get being honest and clear around your convictions. I don’t get just doing and saying what you want bc that’s “who you are”. 

Those are mine. 

Curious to hear from others.

Dennis Geelen

Business Coach | Keynote Speaker | Author of The Happy Accidents newsletter and The Accidental Solopreneur book

I’ve spent most of my career helping people navigate change.

Sometimes that meant working with leadership teams and organizations.
Sometimes it meant coaching solopreneurs who were building something new after an unexpected turn.
And more recently, it’s meant telling true stories that remind us how unpredictable, strange, and meaningful real life can be.

At the core of everything I do is one idea:
people don’t change because of frameworks alone, they change because of perspective.

What I Do

I’m a speaker, author, and consultant who helps individuals and organizations make sense of uncertainty, transition, and unexpected opportunity.

My work focuses on:
 • Leadership and change
 • Human-centered decision making
 • Serendipity, timing, and “happy accidents”
 • Stories that challenge neat narratives about success and control

I’m currently building The Uncanny, a storytelling project exploring true stories that sound impossible but actually happened.

Who I Work With
 • Event organizers looking for keynote talks that are thoughtful, grounded, and story-driven
 • Organizations and nonprofits navigating change, leadership transitions, or cultural shifts
 • Individuals who want practical clarity through focused, one-hour coaching conversations

(I’m no longer actively promoting large programs or long-term coaching, but I still take on select conversations and workshops when there’s a strong fit.)

What I’ve Created
 • Author of The Zero In Formula and The Accidental Solopreneur
 • Host and creator of story-driven newsletters, podcasts, and short-form video content
 • Speaker on topics including change, leadership, serendipity, and starting before you feel ready

Want to Connect?

If you’re reaching out about:
 • Speaking engagements
 • A focused workshop or session
 • A thoughtful one-on-one coaching conversation

Feel free to DM me.

And if you’re someone who loves true stories that make you pause and say, “That can’t be real”…
you’ll probably enjoy what I’m building next.

Founder

Coaching and mentoring to help you start and scale your one-person business.

If you are a relatively good employee you can probably relate to this

You get your work done ahead of schedule, that should be a good thing right?
But no, now you have to pretend to be busy.
And it's stressful.

Because if you are seen sitting at your desk and you don't appear to be busy then you are immediately labeled as lazy or unproductive.

This is a real problem and I bet many of you have felt it.

Am I right?

Speaker | Author | Consultant - Guiding organizations through leadership transitions and complexity

"Oh, I was a bit rude to the cashier today but it was because I had a terrible morning and was late for a meeting, I'm not normally like that."

2 days later... 

"I can't believe how rude that person was to the waiter in the restaurant today."

We live in 2 different moral systems.

Most leadership training gets this backwards.

We teach people how to manage others…
before they know how to manage themselves.

And then we wonder why teams struggle.

There’re some uncomfortable truths we don’t like to acknowledge when it comes to leadership: 

- If you can’t manage your own reactions,
you can’t manage conflict.

- If you don’t understand your own personality, you’ll misread everyone else’s.

- If you don’t take responsibility for your results, you’ll blame your team.

- If you can’t prioritize your own time,
you’ll create chaos for everyone around you.

Contrary to what we like to think, leadership doesn’t start with strategy. 

It starts with self-awareness.

In my 12-week leadership coaching program through Zero In, the first four weeks are entirely about leading yourself.

It’s the foundation for everything that comes afterwards (where we then focus on leading individuals and then leading teams).

In those first four weeks, we dig into personality, stress triggers,
how others actually experience you,
how you respond under pressure,
and how you prioritize what matters.

Because once you can lead yourself…
leading others becomes exponentially easier.

If you’re serious about becoming the kind of leader people actually want to follow,
start there.

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Some of the most damaging leaders I’ve seen weren’t incompetent.

They were unregulated.

Don’t get me wrong, they were smart,  strategic, and experienced.

But they couldn’t manage themselves.

They couldn’t control their reactions in tense moments.

They took feedback personally.

They blamed circumstances when results slipped.

They said “yes” to everything and then created chaos trying to deliver.

And their teams paid the price.

Leadership isn’t just about vision or communication.

It’s about emotional control.
Self-awareness.
Responsibility.
Discipline with your time and energy.

If you can’t lead your own habits, emotions, and priorities, you end up outsourcing the consequences to everyone around you.

And that’s when trust erodes.

Have you ever worked for a leader who struggled to lead themselves?

What did that look like and how did it affect the team?

Not to self: do more videos on LinkedIn 

This one just doesn’t want to slow down
Almost 750K views (so far).

Are you doing videos here?

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Is it your goals?
Is it your habits?
Is it your purpose?

Or is it actually none of those things?

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