METRONOMICS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Strategy and Planning Coach to Entrepreneurs, CEOs
Adrian is a strategy and planning coach to entrepreneurs, CEOs and senior management teams in New Zealand. He is a natural facilitator enabling teams to adopt and embrace change, challenges and goals.
Married with 3 teenage children, Adrian is an avid Liverpool FC fan and keeps fit by wing-foiling, mountain biking and surfing.
Job Titles:
- Founder of the Waltline Group, LLC
Ashley Kline Walters is the founder of The Waltline Group, LLC where she is a consultant and guide for business owners and their leadership teams. She is passionate about helping leaders and their teams hit their goals and grow their organizations. She does this by partnering with them to align the right people around the right priority with the right processes to enable predictable growth.
Ben has been with Metronome Global since the beginning as one of the 2 Co-Founders. He is from Lévis, Quebec, and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.
Professionally, he is most interested in functional programming. Outside of work, he enjoys snowboarding, surfing, and video editing.
Bill Napolitano has a proven track record of success with business owners and executive leaders who want to dominate their market, improve their cash position and increase their business valuation.
Brad Giles has more than twenty years experience as a serial entrepreneur, strategic planner and leadership coach. He has twice been recognised as a BRW Fast 100 founder, an EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, and is actively involved in EO, the Entrepreneurs Organization. Today, as founder of the strategic planning and coaching consultancy Evolution Partners, Brad works with CEOs and leadership teams to build enduring, great companies.
Brad is a leadership team coach and facilitates strategic planning for teams with some amazing companies across Australia.
Cheryl Biron has a proven track record of growing her own company, One Horn Transportation (25x) and coaching CEO+Leadership Teams to achieve their business growth goals so they can live their vision for their businesses and lives. Her main focus is Family-, Sibling-, Couple-Owned Businesses. Cheryl builds trust and alignment to create high-performing leadership teams that achieve their Vision for growth.
Job Titles:
- Principal Owner of Alementary Services
Damian Byrne is the principal owner of Alementary Services, which offers coaching/consulting services to a broad range of clients. His practice as a 3HAG Certified Coach focus on results by building confidence in predicting future growth of the company.
Damian Byrne is the principal owner of Alementary Services, which offers coaching/consulting services to a broad range of clients. His practice focuses on 3HAG to help entrepreneurs grow their business and predictably reach far beyond their perceived potential. He brings more than 25 years of CEO and entrepreneurial experience to the table. Coupling the tools, the passion for coaching leadership teams, with his drive and experience, he aims to make company growth highly successful and profit predictable.
Don brings focus to companies in all business development stages - start-up, scale up, fast-growth challenges, steadystate business, relocation, downsizing and shut-downs. He has extensive experience in needs assessment, design, strategic thinking and execution planning (there is a difference), leadership development, coaching, performance assessments, mergers and acquisitions (USA/CND) and succession management.
Don has a background in small, medium and large-scale development, implementation and system integration projects, with emphasis on taking small to medium privately held businesses to the next level for growth towards structured corporations, sustainable revenue, acquisition or sale, in domestic and international markets. Don has exposure to public sector, international trade service-based economies, industrial automation, commercial, transportation industries, professional services, IT, Telecom sectors and software development environments. He has a successful record of managing and motivating diverse teams, providing guidance, mentoring, committed to quality and client satisfaction.
Elizabeth B. Crook, CEO of Orchard Advisors, works with executives and management teams in both the U.S. and Canada to grow profitability and value through clear strategic thinking and disciplined execution planning. She is a sought-after speaker, workshop leader and guest on stages and in media.
Elizabeth B. Crook, CEO of Orchard Advisors, works with executives and management teams in both the U.S. and Canada to grow profitability and value through clear strategic thinking and disciplined execution planning. Her clients value the insight and authenticity that she brings to each interaction, and they count on her as a skilled business strategist for those "what do we do with this" moments. They also know that experience has given her the ability to ask the hard questions, gently.
Elizabeth has been a member, presenter, and advisor for the Social Venture Circle (previously Social Venture Network) and a frequent case study faculty member for the Social Venture Institute (SVI) in British Columbia. She is a sought-after speaker, workshop leader and guest on stages and in media (Forbes, Fast Company, Conscious Company, Huff Post, Thrive Global on both personal and company strategic planning.
Currently, she is Board Chair of Village People, a successful socially responsible residential real estate and development company in Nashville and a board member of Good Works Ventures (impact investing fund) and High Stakes Foundation in Missoula, Montana..
Job Titles:
- Founder & President of PFD Group, Inc
Ethan Martin, Founder & President of PFD Group, Inc., has a passion serving high growth companies that focuses on bettering their communities and the world, by helping these companies identify their strategic goals, build high performing teams, and execute their plan. After years of leading and advising high-impact companies as a CEO coach, Ethan believes that the key to building both a great business and living a fulfilling life is serving something greater than yourself.
Ethan is a Certified Flight Instructor, and he loves to fly airplanes, teach, and travel. He brings his mentoring experience from almost twenty years of being a pilot and teaching people how to fly in high-performance airplanes. He also has experience in the social sector, as the founder of the Aviation Community Foundation (ACF). ACF helps provide leadership support, technology, community, and funds to world-class aviation education programs that create opportunities for upward mobility for students in underserved communities across the US. Ethan is a graduate of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College where he received his M.B.A. and was selected to be a host fellow for the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship. Ethan is also a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Carleton College where he received a B.A. in Economics.
Job Titles:
- Senior Frontend Developer
Francisco is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. With more than 15 years as software developer in the security, finance and crypto spaces, he joined Metronome in 2022 as UI/UX developer.
Gary Ralston helps you see your business from new and useful vantage points. He has a gift for helping leaders more effectively articulate their visions, and better structure their organizations to achieve those visions.
He works with business leaders, leadership teams and boards to co-invent sustainable and generative solutions when a conventional path won't work, the past has failed the future, and alternatives remain unclear.
Gary has coached a diverse range of clients throughout North America, from start-ups to Fortune 500 organizations, partnering with leaders to help them achieve significant gains. While his recent focus has been in aerospace, commercial space and semiconductors, he has considerable experience across many industries, including engineering, social enterprise, software development, real estate, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and more.
This diverse experience has helped him become adept at synthesis - bridging ideas and best practices, proven tools and methodologies to help clients discover their own pathway to success. A certified ExO (Exponential Organizations) Coach, Gary creates customized solutions to help companies achieve accelerated growth. He is also one of the few structural consultants fully certified by Robert Fritz Inc. in both business and personal practice.
Glen Dall is a successful CEO with an inspiring personal story and hard-won experience stepping in to lead the turnaround and growth of a publicly traded company. Today he is the founder and CEO Coach of Apex North Business Coaching, stepping in where consultants, business groups, and frameworks like EOS leave off. Glen helps CEOs and leadership teams create measurable change, hold each other accountable, and chart a path towards a truly inspiring, audacious vision for the future.
Hilco is from Veldhoven, Netherlands. He holds an MSc Mathematics and boasts over 20 years of experience as a software developer.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Founder and CEO of Activate Group Inc.
Howard M. Shore, founder and CEO of Activate Group Inc., is a bestselling author and serial entrepreneur specializing in liberating C-Suite teams from the barriers holding them back personally and professionally.
After owning and selling several of his own companies, working with numerous top Fortune 500 companies, and training with performance-enhancing organizations like Scaling Up and Gazelles, Howard has become a sought-after business mentor, executive coach, and keynote speaker.
His clients work in family-owned, multi-national, public, and private companies ranging from $1 million to over $1 billion in annual revenue. His expert keynote speeches cover employee empowerment, cash flow enhancement, human capital management, entrepreneurial freedom, and business growth.
With a 30-year track record of success, he guarantees any organization that his methods and systems can help them become more profitable, stable, and scalable.
Hugh is a coach, facilitator, and strategic planner with 20 years' experience working with senior executives and their teams in companies of all sizes from $1m turnover to ASX 200 companies.
Job Titles:
- Business Owner, Professional Services Team Leader, Corporate Advisor
Ian Judson has 25+ years experience as a business owner, professional services team leader, corporate advisor, and CEO + leadership coach both internationally and in Australia. Ian has helped the development of Australian coaching groups and activities by acting as the regional advocate for coaching firms based out of the United States. Today, as founder of Judsons Coaching, a firm focused on the provision of coaching services to CEOs and their leadership teams, he works with teams to build great companies.
Job Titles:
- President of JDA International
Jeff Dorman is President of JDA International (Jeff Dorman & Associates). He is considered among the top of an elite group of global coaches. For over 25 years, he has worked with CEO's, entrepreneurs and leaders who want to "jump start" growth in both their organizations and in their personal lives. His clients describe him as an energizing leader, coach and facilitator known for his capacity to galvanize groups and generate breakthrough results.
Jeff Redmon is Business Growth Coach and Commercial Lawyer for business owners who are actively engaged in their business. Jeff is dedicated to helping business owners accelerate business growth while achieving unparalleled peace of mind and confidence. Leveraging his 38 year experience and networks, he helps business owners live a life they truly love.
Jerry Fons, an executive coach since 1999, has helped more than 2000 people at over 100 businesses achieve their growth goals. Jerry brings simple, practical, and actionable ideas to clients, and as a result his clients work smoothly together as aligned teams, execute at a fast and rhythmic pace, and stay out of the weeds that so many leaders tend to get caught in.
Jerry focuses his work in the arena of mid-sized, OwnerManaged, Business-to-Business corporations and he is viewed as a trusted coach and advisor to the Ownership and Executive levels of these organizations. He has worked in the Manufacturing, Printing, Insurance, Healthcare, Distribution, Financial, Construction, and numerous Service industries.
His work includes facilitating Strategic Planning and Putting into Place the Operating Disciplines to Execute the Plans, Talent Assessment and Talent Management, Executive and Professional Development, and Executive/Management Team Alignment.
From Ireland originally, Jolene spent years travelling and immersing herself in new cultures & languages. Settling in Whistler, BC in 2019, Jolene found a new love for the mountains and adventure sports. You can find her skiing, mountain biking, snowshoeing and hiking in the outdoors. When she's not improving processes, systems or getting stuck into a detailed spreadsheet, that is!
Her personality colour is red, and his greatest Gallup strength is "learner".
Julie lives in Whistler and works for Metronome in customer success. Originally from Prince Rupert, British Columbia, you can find her skiing, surfing, biking, and hiking when she's not speaking with our clients and educating them.
Julie's personality color is yellow and her greatest Gallup strength is "Relator".
Job Titles:
- Business Leader Coach and Advisor
Keith Millar is an Australian business leader coach and advisor, trained in the 3HAG methodology for scaling up of businesses. Most CEOs know what they must do to grow their companies, but few know how. This approach provides a framework for confidently predicting revenue, profits, and cash three years ahead. Very few businesses can claim to have this.
Keith's passion for his client's success rests on the lessons he has learned in founding and growing his own businesses.
Keith's first business was While Millar Cooke and Canvin (WMCC), a national PR firm servicing blue-chip clients like CUB, National Bank, and the Mining Council of Australia. Since then, he has spent his career building leadership and management teams, championing his clients' success and setting them up with clear pathways for growth. Keith has also spent over 20 years running his own CEO roundtable, which attracts an ongoing waitlist and helps leaders across manufacturing, farming equipment, logistics, construction and professional services.
Keith is located in Camas, Washington, USA. His education and background is in finance and accounting where he has 25 years of experience as a corporate CFO. Keith has spent the last 18 years as a Business Coach and highlights the value of confidence; he loves watching coaches gain theirs.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Coach
- Leader
- Member of the Board
Ken is a confident leader and coach with demonstrated experience leading companies to predictable and continuous growth. He has over 30 years of experience in the chemical, lab supply and pharmaceutical industry. His executive career includes working with large multi-national publicly traded companies as well as privately owned entities.
A Whistler resident, Mara has been at Metronome for over 3 years. Mara works with clients and coaches to help them reach their full potential and achieve success, both in using our platform and in the system overall.
She leads an active lifestyle and loves being outdoors. She can be found skiing, biking or hiking when outside of work.
Her personality colour is green and her top Gallup strength is "Responsibility."
Mark Green is a speaker, author, strategic advisor and business & leadership growth coach to CEOs and executive teams worldwide.
Mark Miller is the founder of Flywheel LLC, a business coaching practice dedicated to accelerating growth in mid-market companies. Certified in both the Metronomics and Scaling Up methodologies, Mark empowers companies through the implementation of a disciplined growth framework that drives scalability, teamwork and breakthrough transformation.
Micheal O'Keeffe is a specialist coach serving the construction and engineering sectors. Micheal has previously acted as Director and CEO of a Civil Contracting business growing it to $100m revenue in the first 5 years before successfully stepping back to a non-executive director role. Micheal is an expert at helping leadership teams define business strategy, understand business risk along with facilitating how to sustainably scale their business.
Micheal O'Keeffe is a consultant and coach that focuses on working with senior leaders on how to scale and optimise their business. Micheal has also worked with some of the largest international organisations on applying neuroscience and psychology to safety, operational excellence, and wellbeing in the workplace. Today, Micheal uses his experience as a previous CEO to help high-growth companies in the construction and engineering space scale more quickly with less drama. He also acts in the role of a Director to a number of organisations.
Originally from England, Naomi moved to Canada in 2017 to enjoy life in the mountains. Naomi loves to be outdoors and spends her free time snowboarding, mountain biking, hiking, paddleboarding and running around after her dog Sydney. The only thing she enjoys more than being active is cooking.
Naomi joined the Metronomics team in 2022 and has loved getting to know the whole community. Troubleshooting issues makes Naomi tick, she values jumping in and figuring out how things work.
Her personality colour is yellow, and her greatest Gallup strength is Strategic.
Job Titles:
- CEO & Founder / Shannon
- Founder & CEO of Metronome United / Shannon
is the creator of the 3HAG and lead trainer of Certification. Shannon has over 20+ years experience building and leading high-growth technology companies in the financial services industry. She is co-founded, served as CEO, and led the sale of the two companies less than six years apart: Subserveo, Inc (Founded in 2008 * Sold 2011) and Paradata Systems Inc. (Founded in 1995 * Sold in 2006).
Shannon founded her CEO coaching and worldwide speaking business in June 2011. She is the co-founder of Metronome Growth Systems (Jan 2016) which is a cloud-based business platform for high growth businesses, their CEOs, leaders and Business Coaches. Shannon is the co-architect of ACETECH's Market Validation Program and the architect of ACETECH's Growth Strategy Program. In July 2014, Shannon wrote and released Amazon Best Selling -Entrepreneurship: "The Metronome Effect: The Journey to Predictable Profit", coined as the "Street Version" of the best-selling book -Scaling Up (Verne Harnish). Shannon release her second book in April 2018 -which was recognized and Amazon Best Seller -New Release: "3HAG WAY". Shannon was recognized as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40 and was awarded the Sarah Kirke Award for Canada's Leading Women Entrepreneurs in 2006.
Shannon Byrne Susko has spent over 25 years building, iterating, and innovating what we now know as METRONOMICS, a system utilized by hundreds of coaches and thousands of companies of all sizes all around the world. METRONOMICS is the "silver bullet" that will grow up your company and get you there with speed, ease, and confidence.
Shannon is also the author of bestselling business books, 3HAG WAY (2018) and The Metronome Effect (2014), and is she is the founder and CEO of Metronome United, a community of more than 50 global coaches who use the METRONOMICS system every day to create lasting impact for their clients, teams, and communities.
Shannon has over 25 years of experience leading high-growth global companies. Her technical expertise is coupled with extensive sales, marketing and operations experience.
In addition to her coaching company, Shannon is the bestselling author of two books that have become staple resources within business schools and corporate and private management teams. Her online resources are available for the public as a way to "give back" everything she has learned and gained from her experience as CEO, leader, coach, author, mother, and mentor. Shannon also offers free and paid workshops year-round, run personally and through partnered associations.
Yuan comes to Metronome from LinYin, Mainland China. His background is in software development, and he went to the University of British Columbia and holds a BSc in Physics and Computer Science. Coding and golfing are his favourite hobbies.
His personality colour is green, and his #1 strength is "Learner."