LET'S GROW

Over seven years, Overtone grew from a two-person passion project into a team of more than 80 employees across manufacturing, technology, and executive functions, before ultimately reaching a successful exit.

Founders often ask themselves the same question: how do I get my entire team truly aligned? Lee Benson has a simple but powerful answer. After building and exiting multiple companies (including one that scaled to hundreds of employees and nine-figure revenue), he developed the MIND Methodology to help leaders focus on what matters most: identifying and driving their most important number.

How Tenia Davis Left the Boardroom to Build a Bookstore Café That Connects a Community When most people finish a corporate career, they picture rest or maybe a consulting project. Tenia Davis, PhD, imagined something far more vibrant. She traded meetings for meaningful conversations and turned her passion for books and people into a Chicago-based bookstore café filled with connection, creativity, and purpose. In this episode of the Growth Department podcast , host Chelsey Rey

When your business is just starting out, you wear every hat. You sell, you market, you manage operations. But real growth comes when you learn how to delegate with confidence, build authority in your niche, and put scalable systems in place.

There is a moment in every high performer or leader’s life when relentless effort stops producing better results or stops feeling...

If you think your career has zigged and zagged, wait until you meet Henry Woodman. He sold knives at 13, launched a television show in Chile, scaled and exited a global hotel tech platform, and now he’s producing a reincarnation-themed romance series written from a manuscript discovered in his dad’s garage.

Lisa makes the distinction clear. Expertise means you know your stuff. Authority means others recognize that you know your stuff, and they trust you enough to lead them forward.

Many people think they’ve missed their shot if they don’t hit "success" by 30 or 40. Jeanne Omlor proves them wrong. At 54, she went from...

He credits much of this mindset to his background in competitive sports. As a competitive springboard diver and golfer, he learned to prepare, go for it (the dive, the chip), and if the outcome isn't ideal, stay curious, and move on from failure. Every bad shot or missed dive is just a new opportunity to problem-solve creatively and get better over time. Entrepreneurship, he says, is exactly the same.