Meet TJ Slattery:
Your entrepreneurial, results-focused business advisor.
TJ is a lifetime entrepreneur, small business owner, and strategic advisor with an insatiable desire to help other small business owners scale their enterprise and gain freedom in their professional and personal lives. With 20 years operating in the world of small business and entrepreneurship, TJ leverages his boots-on-the-ground experience and tenure as a business advisor to partner with small business owners and propel their business to the next level.
“My practice helps small business owners connect the dots between the business they have and the vision they want to achieve. This is done by leveraging Crowsnest business acumen, experience, and resources to create new systems and processes that align with owners’ operations, and introduce new concepts and practices to strengthen their organization. The clients I work with are then able to stop treading water in their day-to-day, and get up into the Crowsnest where they belong.”
A Denverite with midwestern roots and a passion for music, gardening, house-projects, travel, skiing, and spoiling his dog Bella, TJ has a deep appreciation for keeping a balance between running a successful business and pursuing the things in life that make us happy.
TJ earned his bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Business Management from Miami University of Ohio and his MBA from the University of Denver. Gathering more experiences along the way, TJ has worked in multitude of industries. From owning and operating a pedicab service in Vail, CO and a handyman service in Denver, CO, to becoming a partner in a facilities management firm in London, UK and starting Zuni Street Brewing in Denver, CO.
“My breadth of work experience has enabled me to become a Swiss army knife in the small business world. As a ‘master of none’, my generalist approach to management allows me to be the business acumen ‘ying’ to an SME’s (subject matter expert’s) ‘yang’. This allows me to partner with clients in any industry, and leverage each other’s opposing skill sets to achieve outstanding results in growing the business and reaching the client’s goals.”
A noble effort to be sure, but if the captain’s toiling below deck, the ship will only continue running into icebergs and missing land. So, the ship keeps taking on water and the captain keeps shoveling it out. And if the captain cannot spot land, below deck as he is, he keeps missing opportunities to improve the ship, support his crew, or steer the ship where he wants it to go.
What the captain needs is to find his way into the Crowsnest. That’s where we come in. Crowsnest Consulting in the below deck bilge bump that allows the captain to get up into the Crowsnest to spot for land and stop hitting so many blasted icebergs.
In business terms, we provide owners with the necessary insight, experience, tools & resources, and systems & processes to get you out of the trenches and into a position where you can plan for the future and action change inside your organization that allows you to scale and grow.
Your version of the bulge pump could be any variety of solutions. Perhaps the core issue is recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and retaining the right staff to enable you to shed some of your responsibilities and focus the growth and direction of the company. You may have trouble generating leads, and need to develop a stalwart and comprehensive marketing strategy that you can execute to foster enough revenue to support your business goals. Or you spend a frustrating amount of time chasing “shiny red balls” and continually lose focus on more true and worthy objectives. Sounds familiar?
We have a solution for all of these common problems and more. The experience is unique to every business owner, as every owner’s dastardly problems are their own. Finding the Crowsnest Mindset is the ultimate goal, whatever those challenges may be. Leveraging our skills, insight, and experience is the key to finding freedom in your own business and personal life.
What would “Getting Up into the Crowsnest” mean to you?
Crowsnest Consulting is founded on a common problem we have encountered with small business owners and are determined to fix. While everyone we’ve spoken with over the years has their own specific need, issue, weak spot, blind spot, or enigmatic, hateful, and elusive bedevilment vexing them that they can’t explain, the universal root of the problem is that the owner is not in the Crowsnest of their business.
It’s a fun metaphor, so bear with me. If this resonates with you we should probably talk.
You see, most clients we begin working with are captains in their own proverbial ship out to sea. The ship’s afloat and moving, but the captain is continually below deck with the crew, bailing out water and just trying to keep the ship from sinking.
