Jim Adkins Consulting

Focusing on People, Process, and Systems

Start seeing a change in your business in as little as 6 months.

Services

SUSTAINABILITY

Everyone wants to grow their business, but few people know how to actually sustain a company’s growth for the long-term. This requires a strong operational foundation implemented to reduce risks to the business over time. Jim has decades of experience helping companies set their foundation in place and can help you too!

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SCALABILITY

Simply stated, scalability means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. But if you are still spending most of your time working “in” your business, rather than “on” your business, then you are not yet ready to scale. That’s where Jim comes in.

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SALEABILITY

Is your business saleable? Business value depends on different factors such as your brand, employees, customers, and finances. When you work with Jim, he’ll take a long, hard look at every aspect of your business and start building an action plan to maximize your company’s value right away.

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Request A Free Consultation

Jim is offering business owners and C-Suite leaders on the Treasure Coast a free business consultation. Sit down with him over coffee for an informal chat and leave with a complimentary 1-page business analysis and a copy of the book The Lean Scale-Up by Michael S. Kramer, CPA.

Fill out the form to have someone from his team contact you and set up a time to discuss how to help your business get to the next level.

What’s stopping you from reaching the next level?

Meet Jim

Speaker | Strategist | Executive Leader

Jim is a Certified Six Sigma & LEAN Coach, Mentor 1:1, USAF Veteran, Author, and Scientist.

Jim Adkins graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1981 and had a long career in the Air Force as a leader, engineer, metallurgist, project & program manager, and acquisition officer. He retired from his government position in 1996, and took his talents to the private equity industry.

His first commercial endeavor was with General Motors/Delphi Packard-Electric and GM/Delphi Chassis, where he was responsible for $75M in services and labor agreements necessary to run a multi-location $3.5B business.

After numerous successes, Jim re-entered the private equity world in 2002 with Enerpac to lead his second business turn-around. Using the same recipe he had refined to a science, Jim was able to achieve double-digit improvements in profitability in less than six months. He’d go on to use this same trusted method of personalized and tailored approaches to help brands like Bobcat, ServiceMaster, and Chromalloy best meet their needs at both the individual and organizational levels.

Since then, Jim has led 1000+ projects at the individual and corporate-wide level. He’s successfully used his personal brand to lead, guide, improve and work in several industries including light and heavy manufacturing, entrepreneurial start-ups, lawn and pest services, fastener, automotive, electronics, jet engine businesses, healthcare, Social Media, and SAAS.

When he’s not helping businesses be the best they can be, Jim volunteers as a Mentor and Ambassador with SCORE, and sits on the Board of Trustees for the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches.

Jim’s Approach

What to Expect

Everyone who’s worked with a consultant or business coach has heard of top-down methodology and bottom-up methodology, but Jim and his team are the only ones who operate from the inside-out. Jim believes in leveraging your entire business and unlocking the potential and capability of everyone in your organization. Jim is here to assist business owners so that they don’t have to constantly look for solutions on their own. He uses a six-step system to:

Identify your goal
Take inventory
Train implementers
Prioritize & Implement
Create a strategic cycle
Measure improvement

Trust & Transparency

Organizations do not exist well with secrecy. When people are getting along and telling each other what they want, what they need, and what they expect from one another, people find ways to create solutions that will be mutually enhancing to both themselves and to the business.

But way too often people don’t want to share and it creates problems for an organization. When you operate in secrecy, other people can’t support your decisions. Or even worse — it can create distrust between the people who work for an organization and the owners. When there’s no trust in an organization then a job becomes nothing more than just a paycheck. This should never be the case.

A company should support everyone who works for the business and the employees should support the growth of a business; it should always be a two-way street. With Jim’s help, you can make sure there’s open communication between all levels of management and the employees who work hard to help you succeed.

Jim’s Helps Businesses With:

Leadership development
Identifying and implanting changes needed to achieve business growth
Achieving successful communication within all levels of business
Recognizing, encouraging, and creating opportunity for employee achievement
Team building, collaboration, and partnership
Continuous process improvement
Improving company cultures
Strategic planning and execution on priorities
Determine crucial management changes
Successful mergers and acquisitions

Testimonials

Jim has helped us take our start up to the next level in terms of sales and marketing thanks to his previous successes.

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I’ve been working with Jim for several years now and he has been a true asset to the growth of our company.

Jennifer, CEOClear SEM Solutions

Working with Jim as been an incredible experience since day one! He helped me make changes in my business that enabled me to maximize my time and also to fully understand the worth of my time, which I THOUGHT I already knew! Time is money, honey! There are some things that literally have me saying “Thank you Jim!” out loud when I get to reap the benefits of the changes he had me make. Jim helped me develop a road map for my business so that I can work on getting my life back while growing my business. I started my dog training business because of my love for the work. With that being said, the business side was a dark hole that I simply could not wrap my mind around. Now, I see the light in that darkness and I can follow my road map. He has helped me delegate tasks to employees so that I can lighten my work load. Work smarter, not harder! Thank you Jim for all you have done and continue to do! You are amazing!!! One of my favorite lines, “The only thing a good CEO should have on their desk is their feet!

Vanessa Berrios, CEO

After having a meeting with Jim, I have completely changed my way of thinking when it comes to meeting with my clients. I now have a much more substantial closing rate of sales in my business. As simple as his techniques were to apply, if you are not made aware of what you are doing or how you are doing it you can’t change it for the better! Highly recommend him and his company to maximize the potential of you and the success of your business!

Neil Cohen

As a solopreneur running multiple businesses, we often forget to take the 30,000 foot view. Jim and his team are constantly coaching us to work smarter on the business to make us better owners and managers. Their Predictive Index tool helps us better identify talent to make our teams stronger. If you’re looking to coach up your business, I strongly recommend giving Jim a call today.

Rob Burton

Working with Jim and Chris has been life changing for our small business. We have learned so much about the existing business and how to move forward in a professional and systematic way. Each step of the way they have been supportive and so very helpful. The tools and support they have given us are immeasurable. I would recommend them to anyone needing business advisors. Thank you!

Andrea Verbeek

I have worked with Jim on several projects. He is outstanding in his approach to have the client realize the REAL problem and the need for help to resolve it.
Tom Brady did not become the Best Quarterback ever .. without a Coach !

George Simpson

Before Jim came to our team in a consulting role, we were struggling to convert much of our pipeline into actual sales. We didn’t quite understand the sales process, the intricacies of selling, and our overall marketing strategy. A chance meeting between our CEO and Jim at a Chamber of Commerce event turned out to be a turning point for our business.

Jim’s capacity for executive guidance helped our own CEO to gain his bearings in terms of our overall path and direction. His lessons on sales to the whole team were deeply insightful and consistently helpful.

Not only does Jim have a keen grasp of business, he demonstrates understanding of psychology, teams, leadership, and teaching- wisdom that was no doubt gained from a diversity of experiences. He was patient with us in our own stages in the process and understands how to facilitate learning by gauging where you are and what lessons you are ready for. He comes to meetings organized, prepared with next steps in mind, always enthusiastic and equipped with a sense of humor and exploration.

Thankfully, the business is in a much better place with regular conversion of leads. If you’re coming up against a wall in your business, not sure how to proceed, and internet articles aren’t cutting it any more, guidance and mentorship from Jim might just be the thing that helps you get to the next stage.

David Glickman

Jim Adkins is a true professional, the Business Operating System (BOS) is an amazingly affordable and effective approach based on Baldrige, America’s Gold Standard for Business. It’s not for everyone, because some CEO’s and business leaders want amazing results overnight without putting in the time, energy and accountability. Basically it just works! I know of at least 60 business owners that love working with him daily. Only call him if you want to work ‘on’ your business and not always ‘in’ your business.

Jim READ

Because of CXO Accelerator, our start-up business has gained its footing and we have a consistent and successful business model now — all thanks to Jim and his team. Would recommend CXO’s services to any entrepreneur who is looking to improve their business and achieve more measurable results.

John Simion

Jim and his staff at CXO Accelerator are amazing. They have helped shape our business from day 1 and I know that we would not have had the success we have seen without their expertise, guidance, and support. I can’t recommend them enough. If you want to grow in a sustainable and manageable way, call Jim and CXO.

Mike Jenkins