AirTight Management is the World’s Best Leadership Operating System for Growth Companies.
We Provide Everything Needed to Scale. Saving Years.
Running a Business is Easy. Growing a Business is Hard!
We Have Decades of Experience Helping Companies Scale. AirTight is Now Installed at Over 200 Companies.
When you need the experience to scale, we are the answer. We become partners and can invest our time in your company at highly discounted rates for equity. This means your ROI is very high. We define scaling as over 25% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).
No one else anywhere has the tools we have accumulated and developed since 2011 to help companies grow faster and more smoothly. With predicable results and less stress. These are curated from over 1,000 books and hundreds of experts.
Statistically, only 1 in 400 companies will ever reach $10M in sales. And 1 in 6,300 will reach $100 million in sales.
Great companies are built by excellent strategy, and thoughtful and disciplined execution. This is accomplished through structured leadership and management systems.
Every company is different, and we must have a call to understand where you are today and recommend a program.
OUR PROMISE TO CLIENTS WHO ELECT OUR GOLD PROGRAM:
We can double your sales, double your growth rate and/or double your P/E ratio (2 X 2 X 2 = 8) to increase your valuation by six times or more in 2-3 years.
A company that grows at 100% for five years becomes worth 32X more! Add a higher P/E and this can be 64X or more.
The result of this program over 6 months can often mean tens of millions higher valuations within two years and:
a) Less dilution for owners plus much higer stock price
b) Raising capital is easier, opening many more sources
c) More market share faster to establish indistry dominace
d) Attracting and keeping top people becomes easier
Together these create a self-fullfilling prophecy of s
*Not all companies are eligible. AirTight Management is for the top 10% of companies that have high differentiation and protectability.
Past clients include companies where we have helped create many billions in value like:
OUR GOLD PROGRAM
This is best for companies with 7 to 25 employees that have an established product-market fit with sales of $500K to $2M per year. See Platinum program here if your company is larger.
As a growth partner we will find and eliminate growth limiters and align your management team, language, culture, models while also expanding your vision and adding many tools, systems and rare experience.
The AirTight Management Gold program includes:
- Analysis to determine key growth limiters. Normally completed in 7-10 days.
- Development of an enhanced growth plan to at least triple, and ideally 8X, the company’s value in two to three years. This includes enhancing your current strategic plan that may add markets, products or more.
- Implementation of this plan and installation of the proper infrastructure and processes to scale that includes:
a) Training for all managers to create a higher perfomance culture and teams
b) One-on-one coaching to help managers to implement proven best practices
c) Licensed intellectual property without any royalties or additional fees
d) Project management
e) Group coaching calls for team and/or participation in staff meetings as appropriate
f) Fill other holes in the team’s expertise as needed to improve operations, financial results and growth of all staff and inject more innovation and creativity
4. Implementation of System #2 Performance Accountability and Merit System (PAMS) to improve culture, morale, performance and perfect team communications to improve team dynamics, trust and mutual support. Typically done during weeks 2 to 8 with ongoing practice and coaching after.
5. Implementation of a corporate dashboard and individual department dashboards as appropriate for marketing, sales and operations. Typically done during weeks 8 to 16 with ongoing coaching and tuning to perfect.
The Gold Program includes a comprehensive management team training program (Learning & Development), which is always required to scale so you can promote from within. And is also requested by 75% of employees and a frequent reason for leaving their job when training is not available.
To scale at 25%+ CAGR you need to constantly up level your team, processes and systems to prevent dilution of knowledge and constant firefighting. This is working “on” the business, “ahead of the curve”, and “right seats on the bus”.
Every company is different, but every company also needs the same things to enable growth.
Our CEO & Founder, Bob Norton, is a World-class Expert in Scaling & Growth and a Serial Entrepreneur with 4 Exits over $1 billion. And oversees every engagement.
CEO since 1989, Professional Management Consultant Coach and Adviser since 2002. Author, Speaker and Thought Leader in scaling, entrepreneurship, Management Science, Leadership and Innovation. Board member since 1986. As an ex-CTO and VP of Engineering he can also lead digital transformation and AI initiatives to create more sustainable competitive advantage (SCA).
Mr. Norton has trained and coached thousands of CEOs & Entrepreneurs from over 40 countries to launch and scale businesses. And to grow fast, as he did his ventures generating over $1 Billion in exits for his investors at an average 25X ROI. He is the creator of AirTight Management, The CEO Boot Camp and Entrepreneurship University which provides six certifications for managers and CEOs.
LinkedIn: https://dev.linkedin.com/in/robertjnorton/
As a CEO for over 25 years, Mr. Norton has the “Been There, Done That” experience to guide any CEO, Executive or business to successful growth, and to scale at 25% to 100%+ CAGR. He has “engineered entrepreneurial success” by creating AirTight Management by combining his engineering and leadership skills into repeatable systems that can be dropped into any company with training to execute with excellence.
We can turn your company into a market leader.
We provide everything needed to scale. And to make needed cultural changes stick that creates a high-performance, market-leading company and culture.
Business strategy and growth
Best practices in leadership, management, and entrepreneurship
Reorganization, transition and crisis management
Operational Excellence
Innovation and product development
Human Capital Optimization
Corporate governance, structure and organization
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These testimonials show the depth and breath of our experience helping companies of all sizes get to their next level of development, no matter what they need. We take 7-figure companies to 8-figures, and 8-figure companies to 9-figures.
What Our Clients Say
We can often diagnose your growth limiters in a single call
CEOs at $1M+ Companies get a free Growth Assessment