The Gray Cat Blog

A comprehensive collection of blogs designed to assist small business owners and multi-unit operators. 

 
How is Gray Cat Diversifying Its Core Offer? Jul 02, 2025

Gray Cat continues to diversify its offering from onsite consulting to online learning courses.

Through the Gray Cat Learning Series, independent operators an take advantage of the core learnings to ...

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Creating A Company Communications Plan Jun 25, 2025

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate” – from the movie, Cool Hand Luke

Fire. Aim. Ready. If this is your communications plan…..you may want to read on.

Amazingly, many companies do not t...

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An Entrepreneur's Inspiration Jun 25, 2025

What makes us give up a solid corporate work background to launch our own management consulting firm?

We talked about this on the Elite Growth Partners podcast.  Inspiration comes from many places, h...

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Biggest Challenges as an Entrepreneur Jun 18, 2025

Becoming an entrepreneur presents a different set of challenges than working in a corporate role.

Here is a short clip where I discuss this on the Elite Growth Partners podcast.
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The Importance of Mentorship Jun 18, 2025

Over the years, I have been blessed with terrific mentors that helped guide and direct my career as well as my personal life.  I am forever grateful for those that have taken the time to invest in me ...

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Interim Executive Leadership Jun 16, 2025

One of the core philosophies of Gray Cat is “more than consulting, we actually get work done" and one area of expertise at Gray Cat is that we serve as a Interim Executive Leader for a division or com...

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Navigating Change Jun 09, 2025

One of the biggest challenges an organization faces is change.  Change can cause disruption not only in operations and procedures but can have a material impact on the culture of the organization. Man...

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The Light Bulb Moment Jun 07, 2025

As an entrepreneur, there is always a little trepidation on whether breaking out on your own will work out - not only in the short term, but ongoing as well.

Having lasted more than two decades with ...

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Connecting The Dots – Creating A Seasonal Sales Strategy Jun 02, 2025

You may think about your business 24/7, but chances are your customers do not. Hard to believe, right?

I am a big believer that the successful businessperson is always considering how they can “conne...

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How do Clients Eventually Find Gray Cat? Jun 02, 2025

LinkedIn has been the number one source of leads and clients for Gray Cat.  

Gray Cat has been built on word-of-mouth and referrals by creating profile(s) - both personal profile and Gray Cat company...

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If You Build It, They Will Come May 21, 2025

When times are good, let the capital dollars flow! 

Developing and constructing new locations for a multi-unit operator is perhaps one of the most gratifying events in the overall health of the chai...

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Establishing Leadership Credibility May 19, 2025

Recently, I was a guest on the Jada Willis podcast focused on leadership and establishing credibility.  

For many of my interim roles, I have to quickly learn the business while concurrently establis...
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