- Unpredictable Revenue
- No Systems in Place
- You Are Wearing All the Hats
We are passionate about supporting business owners to:
We've built, led, bought, and sold businesses from $1M to $40M in revenue.
We treat every client with love, compassion and respect.
We strive to create a client experience that instills strategic focus, diverse perspective and personal confidence for all our clients.
We are committed to build a supportive and uplifting business community for our clients and partners.
We strive to fulfill our every promise and to communicate honestly and openly.
We strive for excellence in everything we do.
We rigorously support and encourage each other as we work toward our vision and mission.
We are committed to perform our responsibilities to the highest level of effectiveness and efficiency.
We are continually learning, improving and evolving.
We measure success by the impact we make on people.
To prepare and position businesses to achieve strategic growth, next generation management development, and the market value to support an eventual sale or transition of ownership. We educate and equip management to execute business best practices and build scalable organizations. Our methods incorporate proven business protocols and peer learning communities enhanced with individualized coaching. Success is achieved by aligning all levels of management for the execution and fulfillment of market strategies and business culture.
Mike has spent over forty years as an entrepreneur. Purchasing his first retail glass company in 1977, he went on to own a successful commercial glass contracting company and then entered the business coaching arena. Mike has a broad business background with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business Management and four decades running his own successful businesses. Mike’s specialties are aligning strategy and culture with larger family businesses. With Mike’s experience in sales leadership and finance, he loves to help his clients grow revenue and profits. In the last decade, Mike has transformed his coaching franchise into one of Denver’s leading business strategic consulting companies. Mike is passionate about his family, faith and the great outdoors.
After an early career in corporate finance with Fortune 100 companies, Dirk spent a decade in sales, marketing, and organizational performance leadership roles with global and national scope. During his 18-year career with Hewlett-Packard, Dirk led a turnaround of HP’s iconic Calculator business, doubling revenue and eliminating 85% of channel inventory over 18 months. He also gained extensive global experience in sales, marketing, finance, strategy, general management, customer service, and channel. Dirk is an expert CEO/Executive Coach, Leadership and Sales Coach, Sales/Marketing ninja and Workshop Facilitator. With deep experience in technology, SaaS, healthcare, education, distribution, and financial services, he specializes in simplifying and clarifying strategy, creating a performance culture, and building healthy teams.
Bennie Warren Fowler, Ill is an 8-year veteran of the National Football League. He began his career as an undrafted free agent signed by the Denver Broncos in 2014. Bennie was a member of the 2016 Denver Broncos Super Bowl 50 Championship Team and may be best remembered for having hauled in the final pass Hall of Famer Peyton Manning. Bennie has 12 years of experience working with high-performing teams and individuals. Bennie worked with over 150 small business owners and CEOs while playing in the National Football League. As a professional business coach since 2019, Bennie specializes in coaching Business Owners, CEOs, and executive teams on Mindset, Vision, & Performance.
Born in Mexico City and raised in the mountains of Colorado, Victoria brings empathy, understanding, and expertise in supporting the Hispanic-American working professional. Being bilingual and bicultural gives Victoria a powerful opportunity to serve Colorado’s business community in both Spanish and English. In 2014, Victoria graduated from Metropolitan State University with a B.A. in Speech Communication and an emphasis in Broadcasting. Victoria is a bold leader, who is passionate about helping Latinas close their wage gap and gain financial independence. She launched Latinas Who Dare in 2019, helping Latinas to start businesses to supplement their income and build wealth. As a business owner, Victoria co-founded Apapacho Cacao, a food company that specializes in creating organic cacao blends that serve as a health and wellness supplement. Victoria lives in Aurora with her husband Jeff, her 10-year-old son Liam, and an adopted kitty they rescued from their neighborhood and named Mochi.
Joe’s professional career spans 30 years, including sales and leadership positions with Fortune 100 companies, an Inc. 500 Top 10 organization, and multiple start-ups. Joe’s passion for business development and personal growth, as well as public speaking, has led to his involvement in the successful launch of businesses across multiple industry lines including Financial Services, Telecommunications, Real Estate, and Business Coaching, both as a top sales producer and leader. Joe’s special gift is helping people navigate between a problem or obstacle and the action needed to overcome it. Joe has presented to thousands of people at live events and trained, coached, and mentored over 3,500 individuals and business owners in one-on-one, team, and group settings.
With a 17-year corporate sales career spanning multiple industries, Amy is passionate about strategic communication and sales excellence. She is a business owner who likes getting people excited about the art and science of sales. Amy believes that connection inspires action and enjoys building a successful career by building meaningful relationships. She has extensive sales experience, earning countless awards for being a top performer across multiple industries. She specializes in sales training, coaching, and consulting for companies, teams, and individuals. Amy is a keynote speaker, business consultant, certified virtual trainer, and author of “So You’re In Sales.” Outside of consulting, she volunteers her time as a board director for a national nonprofit. She is an animal lover, runner, vegetarian foodie, and loves to travel with her husband.
Dennis has served as CEO, COO, President, and GM of sports teams and businesses during his 40-year career. He has leadership experience in all four Major League sports, leading operations during 15 postseason runs. He’s been in leadership roles for two World series (Phillies), an NHL Conference Championship (Colorado Avalanche), a Super Bowl (Baltimore Ravens), four National League Championship Series (Phillies & Dodgers), and an NBA Playoff Series (Detroit Pistons). Dennis specializes in marketing, sales, operations, and general management. He is a revenue growth expert, earning multiple awards and producing record results for the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Baltimore Ravens, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Detroit Pistons. Dennis earned a B.A. in Business and B.S. in Sports Management dual degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
With 12 years’ experience at Xerox, ServiceLink, Bumbul, and ESM, Jonathan brings expertise from multiple disciplines of executive management including operations, strategy, client management, sales, marketing, financial planning, business analytics, and leadership development. Jonathan learned the value of hard work while growing up around small-business entrepreneurs. During his career, he’s gained valuable experience and skills in people-development, which led to operations manager positions for multiple fortune 500 companies. This expertise allowed him to transform field and support services into a thriving, profitable division at ServiceLink, where he has produced more new leaders than any other division, decreased losses by 71%, and improved field retention from less than 30% to greater than 90%! Jonathan specializes in process improvement, client management, employee retention, succession planning, business process outsourcing, leadership development, and financial turnarounds.
Bridgit is a coach, organizational development consultant, and the founder of equine-facilitated leadership organization EquusLibere. She is passionate about individual and team leadership development, employee engagement, and the cultivation of healthy workplace cultures. Her coaching, facilitation, and program design draw on training in Integral Theory, experiential facilitation methodologies, and embodied leadership development. Bridgit utilizes various assessments in her coaching work and is a Certified Advanced Hogan Assessment practitioner. She serves clients from a wide range of sectors, from nonprofits and small businesses to Fortune 100, including clients like Google, Lego, HBO, Palantir, and University of Colorado. In addition to her for-profit work, Bridgit is the founder of a nonprofit horse rescue and is a passionate volunteer in the areas of youth leadership and end-of-life care. She holds a B.A. from McGill University in Montreal, QC.
Scott is passionate about business owners and leaders thriving, both personally and professionally, as they lead their organizations. He spent nearly three decades as a pastor, focused on church planting and leadership. He served as senior pastor for over ten years in Fort Collins, Colorado and has served on several non-profit boards. Scott co-founded Restoration Now, a nonprofit involved in local and global development. In 2019, Scott followed his passion, moving into real estate as a broker and becoming a leadership coach to business owners, nonprofit directors, and pastors. In 2021, he was named top 25% producers in real estate nationally. Scott lives in Fort Collins with Amy, his wife of 25 years and they have a son in college and a daughter in high school. Scott loves the great outdoors, mountain biking, road biking, trail running, hikes with his wife, games with his kids, and camping in Steamboat, Colorado. He also loves reading and playing guitar.
Tom is a global business executive with over 25 years of building high-performing, transformational teams in Finance and Sales Operations at IBM and Brocade Communications. During Tom’s leadership, Brocade expanded from 400 employees and $120M revenue to 5,000+ employees and $2.4B revenue. Tom is a highly collaborative, influential thought-leader with success in multiple disciplines including finance operations management, strategic planning, pricing strategy/operations, acquisition integration, sales compensation, field enablement strategy, sales training, and sales culture transformation. Tom also spent 2 years in Asia, where he helped lead regional growth and rebuilding. More recently he successfully built and sold a family business franchise with his son.
Sharon is passionate about business owners and business operations. Her father and grandfathers were very successful entrepreneurs, and she and her husband have continued on the tradition. She has a strong background and education in psychology, and enjoys motivating and encouraging people to advance and succeed. She partners with Mike in running the company and encouraging their clients. Her role is administrative and financial management in the business. She loves her family which includes two sons, a daughter-in-law and grandson, and a huge extended family. She enjoys reading, the outdoors, architectural and landscape photography, traveling, and visiting with friends and family.
Bill is armed with a unique paradox of extensive start-up expertise and Fortune 500 business leadership experience. At Portocol, he delivers comprehensive management development programs that clients can use to achieve strategic growth. He works in the classroom setting, as well as providing one-on-one coaching and project guidance for all levels of management to implement Portocol's programming.