Accredited Five Behaviors Facilitator Tom Krekel

I'm a Gazelles International Certified Coach who works with owner-managed companies, with at least 50 employees. The leaders of my client organizations are determined to scale their businesses. Further, they are often leaders who yearn to grow professionally and personally. Gazelles is an executive learning organization. We help companies apply the lessons laid out in Verne Harnish's 2000 classic, "Mastering the Rockefeller Habits" updated in 2015 with the publication of "Scaling Up."

There are 10 Rockefeller Habits and they are always headed by habit #1, which is that unless the Executive Team is healthy and aligned, you're not going to be able to achieve what you want without needless drama and wasted time.

Having grown companies, I have come to believe that most leadership team would benefit greatly by learning, and applying the principles building trust, learning to have healthy conflict, truly committing to decisions, hold each other accountable and finally paying attention to collective results.

I have 30 years of experience as a founder and CEO in building and operating businesses. I graduated from Wisconsin, and then completed my MBA at the Lubar School of Business of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. The companies I ran ranged from a start-up, which I founded, to an organization of 175 full-time employees with five locations in central New Jersey where I was President.

Coaching Specialties
Execution management & accountability
Business model development
Leadership development
Developing healthy teams

Specific Expertise
Accredited Facilitator on Lencioni’s Five Cohesive Behaviors (Five Dysfunctions of a Team)
Authorized Wiley Partner: Everything DiSC™
Certified coach on the Stages of Entrepreneurial Growth™
Certified Coach, Gazelles International
Keyne Insights Accountability Consultant