The ORIGINAL Business Growth Acceleration Company

The Premier Business, Executive and Leadership Coaching and Growth Company in Wisconsin

We Help Entrepreneurs Double Their Revenues and Triple Their Profits by Growing Businesses That Run By Themselves

When you join our award-winning coaching firm, you will experience transformative growth. We have developed tailored strategies designed specifically for companies with $1.5 million to $300 million dollars or more in revenue.

Here’s How We Do It

Our role is to guide you through the most effective ways to climb the entrepreneur ladder because what we know is that every time YOU grow, your business grows with you.

And the opposite is true. If you DON’T grow yourself and your skills, your business MUST languish until you do. Here’s how to do it.

1 Student

As a student, you are getting the basic education of “reading, writing and arithmetic”, as well as learning a host of skills useful in your life. How to be a good team member of a small project team. How to be a leader of a sports team perhaps, and even how to learn. As you progress through college, if you so choose, you’ll learn how to gain more specialized knowledge as you pursue a degree. On this rung, your job is learning, and you pay to learn.

2 Employee

When you become an employee, you continue to learn from other businesses, and on this rung you get paid to learn! Taking a job in an industry that interests you lets you learn the ins and outs of how that industry operates, while you draw a paycheck to learn. You can see what works and doesn’t work, and consider what self employment can mean to you. This is the rung that launches most business owners, since they learn enough to want to be their own boss!

3 Self-Employed

The self-employed rung is where the problems often start. You want to become your own boss because you can do things better, but it turns out that you never learned the systems that make running a business work. You’re going to need to learn all the skills of a business at this rung, and this is a great starting place for coaching to expedite your learning process. Our 12-week Business MasterCLASS training program was designed exactly for you if you are here. You move back to investing in your learning at this step.

4 Manager

Now things are heating up for you. You’ve hired your first employee or employees. Now you need to learn how to manage them, how to create systems in your business, how marketing works, and how to decide who’s right for the company. Not only that, but you’ll likely be busy trying to do all the work you had to do to begin with. This is the ideal rung to enter into a small group coaching program like MentorCLUB. You’ll learn how to manage and run your small team in a way that makes it easier for you, your employees and your customers!

5 Director

Rung 5 on the entrepreneur ladder is where you learn the skills of “managing managers”. Your company has probably broken the million dollar revenue line, and you’re going to want to learn all the shortcuts you can to make leading and growing your organization as time effective as you can. Skills like creating and managing KPIs for managers, culture creation and management, leadership skills, communication at a whole new level, how to promote, performance management, and many more. All without losing sight of the forest for the trees! Our Flagship 1-2-1 coaching program will be your go-to resource to learn and refine the skills that prepare you to become a true owner.

6 Owner

The owner rung is where you’ve successfully turned your company into a commercial, profitable enterprise that works without you. Until you’ve “finished” your business, you haven’t optimized its value to you as an asset, its profitability, and its ability to pay you from profit instead of the job you do in it. This is a hard step to take and a lot of emotions are experienced. Like letting your kid go off to college, you’ll learn that you’re still the spark, but the business needs to do its work for you now.

7 Investor

But wait! You didn’t think that was all there was to it, did you? There are two more rungs, and the top two are primarily the steps where you build true and possibly generational wealth. At the investor rung, you’ve proven that you can trade your time for money by creating a business. Now you’ll learn to use money to make money instead of your time. These skills include identifying investment opportunities, using other people’s money, and letting your money do the work.

8 Entrepreneur

And finally, at the top of the ladder is the Entrepreneur rung. At this last step, you’ll learn the skills of making money with ideas. Imagine making an introduction of two people who create a great business and you get a piece of it just for connecting them. It is possible, it just takes the skills of the entrepreneur to do so.

Why Choose ActionCOACH Milwaukee

Our nationally and regionally recognized coaches bring unparalleled expertise, ensuring that you receive the highest quality guidance and support. By working with us, you are making a strategic investment in your business. Like marketing, software or infrastructure expenses, you’ll see substantial and growing returns on your investment.

You will benefit from our unique hivemind approach, where our coaches continually learn, assess, and collaborate based on real-world client results. We assess the best strategies - those working right now - by market and industry to innovate and provide comprehensive solutions and results for you.

Our think tank methodology combines and leverages our collective knowledge, and includes real time, real world successes. That way YOU get unique and proven solutions for your specific challenges and opportunities, setting you on the shortest path to long-term success. Join us, and together, we will unlock your business's full potential, driving sustainable growth and positioning you ahead of the competition.

Coaching Programs

MentorCLUB twice monthly peer coaching session
1-to-1 Coaching twice monthly in-person with full access to your personal coach by email or text

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Training Programs

Sales Training 12 week program
Management Training 12 week program

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Business Assessments

Get started with our free assessment to gain valuable insights into your business’s strengths and weaknesses. Our 6-step framework is a practical system designed to help small to medium sized businesses succeed. Find out where your business is at each of the key steps.

Ready for the next step? Schedule a call for personalized goal setting and to find out if coaching is right for you.

6 Steps Scorecard 5 minute free assessment
Business Diagnostic one-time 90-minute call

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Live Events

There’s nothing like a live, face-to-face event to take advantage of all the knowledge in your coaching community. We learned many, many lessons over the past few years, one of which is there’s still no platform for learning, growth, and new idea generation that beats live events. Here are a few of the types of events you have access to.

Mastermind events - led by Hall of Fame coach Mike Mckay
Quarterly planning sessions
Strategic planning retreats
Business Ignition Bootcamp
Workshops, seminars and Keynote addresses

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Additional Resources We Offer

Need a quick tip between coaching sessions? Just want a better idea of how coaching has helped businesses like yours? Browse our collection of free business training resources.

Daily Dose of Business Email Subscription

A 37 second daily read, sent to your email. It contains Mike McKay's thoughts on business, coaching questions, leadership challenges, and insights.

Tough Love for Business Weekly Podcast

Tough Love for Business is a podcast for business owners to get answers to the most important questions about owning and running a successful business.

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6-Steps Scorecard Free Assessment

With the 6 Steps Scorecard, you’ll gain valuable insights into your business’s strengths and weaknesses. It only takes 5 minutes!

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Companies We've Helped

See what business owners from all industries have to say about ActionCOACH WI!

Went from 26 employees to 69, and just built our 2nd new building… This was exactly what I needed!
Rebecca K.

Their coaches are great listeners and problem-solvers. They measure the success of their advice by setting benchmarks which are quantitative in nature. Thus, their clients can readily determine the value ActionCOACH adds to their business.
Jesse I.

Action COACH has the advantage of bringing years of Senior management experience to their roles as Executive Coaches. They understand the demands and expectations that business executives must juggle in order to be successful. This, along with real world approach has made them an excellent Coaching choice for our company.
Melissa D.

As an owner of a small business, I am constantly taxed with what comes next, and keeping the important strategic items next are some of the most important. ActionCOACH is fantastic at keeping me engaged in what really matters.
Jeff G.