IAM2069 – Operations Executive Helps Entrepreneurs Optimize Their Roles and Time

In this episode, we have Joel Kahn, an Operations Executive who helps entrepreneurs optimize their time and roles within their businesses by making the best use of time.

Joel, emphasizes transitioning from sales roles to more strategic positions and understanding the various components of a business.

The conversation covers various aspects of being a CEO, including being a visionary, taking responsibility for the business and its people, defining the success of the business, and leading the people in the company. It also mentions the importance of core values.

Joel Kahn Teaser 00:00

So I want to talk to people about what's their highest and best use of their time. Because sometimes they do have an entrepreneur where they don't love to sell, but they know that's what they have to do because of those one on one connections.

So we'll talk about what does that look like over the next three, six, twelve months. And do we start talking about how we get them out of that sales seat and more into just a rainmaker seat than eventually into an ownership CEO or visionary seat.

Intro 00:34

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Gresham Harkless 01:01

Hello. Hello. Hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO Podcast, and I have a very special guest on the show today. I have Joel Kahn. Joel, excited to have you on the show.

Joel Kahn 01:08

Hey. Thanks for having me. Really appreciate it. Looking forward to our conversation.

Gresham Harkless 01:12

Absolutely. I'm appreciating you as well too and all the awesome things that you're doing. And, of course, before we jumped into that conversation, I wanted to read a little bit more about Joel so you can hear about some of those awesome things that he's been working on.

And Joel has always been driven by growing companies and making them better. People define the word better in various ways, but as an Operations Executive, COO, this means profitable growth, better margins, more engaged employees, more engaged customers, happier owners and stakeholders.

This has come from years of analyzing business situations and diving into what one company successful and one company fail. And throughout Joel's career, he has successfully managed both the revenue and cost side of P & L's as large as forty-five million dollars. And all his roles including that as an integrator for companies running on the Entrepreneur Operating System or EOS.

He has achieved an unbroken record of performance driving turnarounds and building expansions that has significantly elevated the revenue for revenue positions for the companies. Joel's strengths come from looking at the entire company and figuring out how the individual pieces fit together to make a cohesive unit so that the company operates at the highest level.

And he firmly believes that the sales needs Operation, which needs Accounting, which needs Human Resources, which needs Finance, which needs Marketing, which needs Sales. And Joel finds the best way for these groups to work together as a cohesive unit, proving that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

And absolutely appreciate the opportunity I got to connect with Joel. He was a wealth of knowledge and information. Super helpful and I always appreciate having an opportunity to connect with givers and people that are always looking to have that helpful attitude. And I really, really, really love his holistic approach.

That's the word I'm gonna use with how he approaches companies and how he helps them to reach their goals. So, Joel, excited to have you on the show. Are you ready to speak to the I AM CEO Community?

Joel Kahn 02:57

I'm ready. I'm excited as well.