Most business operating and scaling systems force business owners into top-down, command and control style playbooks that look good on paper – but fall apart in practice.
AiMS is different. It’s built for how businesses work today and meets your business where it is at. It activates your team’s strengths and builds a system that works with your people – so growth doesn’t depend on you being the hero.
Imagine an environment where:
We aren’t just coaches or consultants, we’re business owners just like you.
Guided by distinguished Co-Founders and Advisors, AiMS draws on deep real-world experience and cutting-edge research to shape the future of leadership.
Scot is an entrepreneur, investor, and a mentor in the field of entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA), helping over 65 people achieve the dream of business ownership.
Jackie is the creator of SOAR (a positive approach to strategic planning), a Professor, and Advisor for the David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry.
Kevin has served in several CEO roles, including NCS Healthcare which he scaled from one location to 50 and took public. He is the Co-Founder of Promise One today and owns multiple companies across the U.S.
Steve spent 6 years as the CEO of Fathom Digital, which he successfully scaled and sold in 2024. Steve has a wealth of experience in Management and Operations and councils several companies in and around the Cleveland area.
AiMS takes the traditional management disciplines (think EOS, Scaling Up, 4DX, OKR’s) which focus on WHAT you need to do, and provides business owners with a modern HOW, for the way you implement them.
AiMS is built on the principles of Appreciative Inquiry, Positive Psychology, and Design Thinking which put strengths, successes, and people at the core. AiMS preserves the WHAT but modernizes the WHO and the HOW. AiMS unlocks the hidden capacity that is available inside your team, creating natural ownership and transformational results, FAST.
Boost Engagement…
A Digital Marketing Firm adopted AiMS practices as a way of increasing collaboration and team commitment, taking employee engagement from 43% to 81% in less than one year. Revenue skyrocketed and profits tripled in the process.
Revitalize Operations and Scale Top-Line Growth…
In a town with a declining industrial base, AiMS practices helped a manufacturing plan win over $100M in new contracts while simultaneously reorganizing its inventory management saving $5M annually (and freeing up the floor space for their new business. They achieved these results 4 months ahead of plan, when they hadn’t hit any of their business goals in the previous 3 years.
Achieve a 100% Cumulative Average Growth Rate … …
AiMS partnered with a Tower Management Company and applied AiMS practices to their EOS disciplines. They went from $3M in annual sales to $12M in just 2 years, in a period where all of their competitors were downsizing. The team came to life and now operates without the business owner, 80% of the time.
Generate $5M in Productivity Improvements …
AiMS helped a global company bring all of their stakeholders together over 3 days to re-imagine their event strategy, resulting in $5M of additional profit in their very first year.
Imagine what AiMS can do for you!
