Benaye Wadkins Chambers is the president and CEO of Crossroads Community Services, a food distribution and public health organization in Dallas that distributes through 148 partner organizations across the southern sector and runs two community markets, one of them a nutrition pharmacy where local clinics refer families who need food to support their health care. When she arrived five years ago there were 11 and a half employees. Today there are 30, and she has been self-implementing EOS® the...
Jim Coyle ran 12 companies before he figured out what he was actually supposed to do. He sold candy bars to pay for a school trip to Italy, made beaded jewelry that put him through college, ran a paint contracting company, owned restaurants in Chicago, and built a real estate development business. He describes all of it the same way: he did it the hard way. Then a friend handed him a self-published book called Traction, and Jim called Gino Wickman to tell him, straight to his face, that he in...
David Bowman spent 10 years in the Marine Corps as a helicopter crew chief before realizing he was never going to be the guy sitting behind a desk. After a career in organizational development and consulting, he walked into a turnaround client in Michigan, ran a 90 minute meeting the owner did not bother to attend, and fell in love with EOS on the spot. That pivot became a decade as an implementer and the creation of 10x Connect, a program that trains implementers to build EOS Trusted Advisor...
Bart McCollum has spent his career as the operator founders call when a business is ready to grow up. He started as an attorney, moved to a bank bond desk, helped build a health savings account startup into a national brand over 14 years, and four years ago joined Lime Media Group, the largest mobile experiential marketing company in the country, to help founder Heath Hill scale it. Lime builds custom vehicles, LED trucks, and brand experiences for the Super Bowl, Coachella, and South by Sout...
Jonathan B. Smith, known as JBS, was one of Gino Wickman's first clients. He met Gino at an EO event before EOS® even had a name, and that early bet turned into an Inc. 500 business and a career as an EOS® implementer with more than 1,500 sessions. JBS also spent a decade training with Chris Voss, the former lead FBI hostage negotiator behind Never Split the Difference, and co-wrote Fight Less, Win More to bring tactical empathy into the leadership room. In this conversation with Christine Wa...