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Someone to work it through with.

Most founders have no one to think out loud with. The team reports to you, the board has a stake, and the people at home only hear half of it.

I’m David Wible. I’ve built and sold five companies, and I’m the person founders call when something is stuck. I help you build the team that runs the business, add what the business is missing when the plan calls for it, and stay in your corner while you lead it.

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  • 30 years running companies
  • 5 companies built and sold
  • 70+ countries one of them scaled into

Things founders tell me in the first ten minutes

  • “Every decision still comes back to me.”
  • “I make the hard calls alone, and nobody tells me when I’m wrong.”
  • “I can’t say this at work. And I can’t really say it at home.”
  • “My health gets whatever is left.”

You shouldn’t have to carry it alone. Running a company is hard enough without doing all of your thinking by yourself.

What happens once you start.

For your business. The Playbook. Get more out of the team you already have. More profit and more efficiency, from a leadership team that owns the work. First 90 days. The Playbook: your leadership team takes clear ownership, in six working sessions.Every month. A short read on your number, and the next move.When the plan calls for more. Technology and AI, marketing, sales, accounting or support, added inside the same plan. How The Playbook works For you. Executive coaching for business owners. When the business works, but your life doesn’t. Someone to work it through with, and a life that works as well as the business. First 30 days. Four private sessions on what is stuck right now.Every week. Time with me, and The Cave™ between sessions.Over time. Goals in your health, focus, people and money, and a rhythm you can keep. How it works with you

Not sure yet? Start with a free leadership team review, or see every way to work with me.

“It’s like smashing an easy button.”Ashok Aggarwal, co-founder and managing partner, M&S Consulting, on bringing me a complicated problem

Ashok Aggarwal

“I can come with a really complicated problem or challenge or issue and Dave gets it within minutes.”

Co-founder and managing partner, M&S Consulting

Jeannette Sermak-Proulx

“My business has grown as a result of David Wible and Brave Cave.”

Owner and director, Plaza Production One

Ben Berry

Mountain Craft

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Where this goes.

  • Decisions keep waiting on you.
  • You keep making the big calls alone.
  • The company stays one you can’t step away from.
  • Your team decides without checking with you first.
  • You have someone to think out loud with before the big calls.
  • You take a week off, and the business doesn’t notice.
David Wible speaking, with the F4 sketch he drew on the screen behind him

I’ve sat where you’re sitting.

For thirty years I built and ran companies in manufacturing, retail, trucking and technology, and sold five of them, including Industry Weapon, which I took from an idea to a 10x return for its investors. I know what it is like when everything waits on you, and what it takes to build a team that does not need you in every decision.

One client calls me a sparring partner. I’ll be positive, practical, and honest with you about the hard thing, and I’ll stay with you while you act on it.

David

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