Not a One-Size-Fits-All System
Work directly with former CEOs who’ve scaled beyond $10M. We guide you with a principles-based, flexible framework designed around your business, helping you achieve clarity, freedom, and extraordinary results.
No pitch, no pressure. If we’re not a fit, we’ll help you find someone who is.
Most entrepreneurial leaders don’t want to be constrained, yet the most popular business operating systems are more focused on the system than the user.
Next Level Growth exists for founders who want systems and structures that are customizable and able to evolve with them as they grow.
We help you design a custom-tailored operating framework grounded in the Five Obsessions of Elite Organizations®: Great People, Inspiring Purpose, Optimized Playbooks, a Culture of Performance, and Growing Profits & Cash Flow. The result? Leadership teams and organizations that scale with focus, accountability, and freedom.
Our Partners & Business Guides are former CEOs and owners who’ve each scaled beyond $10M and 50+ employees. They’ve lived through the same challenges you face and know how to turn principles into practical systems that create clarity, accountability, and freedom.
This isn’t about following someone else’s rules. It’s about designing a principles-based, flexible framework around your business so you can move from Good, to Great, to ELITE without sacrificing what matters most.
Receive a complimentary copy of The Five Obsessions of Elite Organizations when you complete your assessment and speak with a Guide.
In this short video featuring Michael Erath, Joe Polish, Cameron Herold, and a few of our clients, you will get a full understanding of the mindset behind Next Level Growth and how ELITE organizations are built on principled frameworks, not prescriptive systems.
This is growth without gimmicks: a principles-based, flexible framework that adapts to your business, not the other way around.
Watch the video and see why so many founders say, “This changed everything.”
“If you’re frustrated with your people, it’s because your system of recruiting, hiring, and retaining people is perfectly designed to produce people who frustrate you. If you want a different result, you need a different system.”
— Michael Erath,
Founder, Next Level Growth
Our Partners & Business Guides aren’t career coaches or teachers who teach because they cannot do. They’re former CEOs and owners who’ve scaled beyond $10 million and 50+ employees. They know what it’s like to lose sleep worrying about the business, managing chaos & rebuilding culture under pressure.
You won’t be coached from the sidelines, you’ll be guided by someone who’s already climbed the mountain.
Of all the clients we have served, these results tell a clear story. Our clients do not just grow. They compound success over time.
Behind every number is a founder who stopped fighting rigid, one-size-fits-all systems and started leading with Next Level Growth principles. They replaced noise with clarity, activity with discipline, and effort with focus.
Because elite is not luck. It is clarity, discipline, and focus applied consistently.
Revenue doubled every 3 years
Profit dollars doubled every 2.5 years
22.3% compound annual revenue growth (CAGR)
31.4% compound annual profit growth (CAGR)
Enterprise Value grew 5.9X over their first 5 years
See if your organization could achieve results like these...
Next Level Growth is for leaders who crave taking ownership, not making excuses.
If you’re looking for someone to “implement” a prescriptive system for you, we’re not the right fit.
If you want an experienced partner to help you build a principles-based, customizable framework that you and your team live every day, we’re in.
We meet you where you are.
We guide you higher.
Together, we design your path from Good, to Great, to ELITE.
Elite organizations aren’t just profitable, they’re purposeful. Our clients don’t just gain revenue, profit, and cash; they reclaim time, balance, and fulfillment.
Return on Life means building a company that gives you back what matters most — freedom, family, and the joy of leading a thriving team.
Latest thinking from our Business Guides on growth, leadership, and building elite organizations. Each article translates experience into action; showing how principles, not prescriptions, drive real sustainable results. Because elite leaders never stop learning and neither do we.
