ENTREPRENEURIAL ADVISORS
Every business encounters challenges. Candid, confidential, and supportive engagement is the key to our approach. We incorporate experience, open facilitation, coaching, and collaboration in order to drive client success. This is achieved by using the right tools (or combination of tools) at the right time, empowering individuals and teams to thrive.
True North
1. Embracing life’s adventures 2. Fearlessly giving first for the betterment of others 3. Always curious, always learning 4. Living a philosophy of gratitude and abundance 5. Owning your life experience, attitude matters
Our Mission
At EA, our purpose is to help empower leaders and teams to thrive and obtain everything they had ever dreamed of from their organizations. Our intention is to introduce 1,000,000 million people to a new way of thinking and change 100,000 lives.
OUR TEAM
Kris Kluver | Our Visionary
Kris Kluver is a highly experienced operator, investor, and advisor who has worked with over 100 CEOs and helped organizations achieve billions in valuation. He has of three decades of experience across diverse industries, from publicly traded companies to high growth startups. Kluver has studied entrepreneurial strategy at Harvard Business School, is a certified exit advisor, a fellow at York University in the UK, and author of two bestselling books.
Janine Kirsch | Chief of Staff
Janine joined Entrepreneurial Advisors in May 2018. Having been born and raised in New Jersey, Janine recently moved to South Carolina and is enjoying the warmer climate and southern hospitality. She received a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Montclair State University, as well as a certification in Microsoft Office from Rutgers University. Janine is a seasoned executive assistant with a wealth of experience, serving as a support staff manager, executive assistant, inside sales support, and most recently, sales assistant. In addition to her professional duties, Janine is very active within her community by volunteering at schools, organizing events, and spearheading fundraisers. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and family.
Chris Richardson | Business Coach
Chris Richardson is a highly driven and motivating coach who has an innate ability pull the best out of others. Chris’s skills at listening and ability to ask the right questions, at the right time, are exceptional and this is reflected in the impact he has had with the people he has worked with. Chris has a wisdom and drive beyond his years but, because of his age Chris connects well with younger people and can immediately establish trust and rappor. Chris’s scholastic, physical and martial arts accomplishments are reflective of his internal drive and unwillingness to compromise.
Jonah Larkin | Business Coach
Jonah is a leadership coach, group dynamics facilitator and communications consultant. He works individually with leaders as well as their teams to develop a common language for collaboration and conflict. He is also an instructor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for the famed Interpersonal Dynamics program and a LEAD Coach for mid-career MBA students. His clients include leaders at companies such as Wells Fargo, AWS, Discord, Turo, and more. As a founder Jonah had his first successful exit at 32 by building and selling one of the first companies to sell skateboards online. He has drunk horse milk beer with nomads in Mongolia, surfed 25 foot waves on remote pacific islands, and speaks really bad Spanish. When he's not at work you can find him scouring the beaches of the world for the perfect wave.
Professor Ioan Fazey | Transformations Facilitator and Coach
Ioan is a facilitator, coach, trainer and consultant. He works with groups and leaders in businesses and organisations to help them work through complexity and bring about systemic change with outcomes that go well beyond just improving a status quo. He is also a Professor at the University of York, Director of the Department of Environment, and internationally recognized expert on transformation, with over 80 highly regarded peer reviewed research publications.
Ioan has conducted projects on five continents working at all levels, from the Governor of Louisiana and his senior staff to illiterate community leaders in Bangladesh and in remote areas of the South Pacific. He is also an experienced shamanic practitioner and trainer, helping people reconnect with the regenerative power of the natural world and to undergo the inner transformations they need to be able to support change on the 'outside’. His greatest love is spending time in the Welsh mountains with his border collie, Elidir.
Russ Sorrells | Coach
Russ Sorrells has walked the business ownership walk. He has built three companies from scratch and purchased three additional businesses throughout his 30-year business career. He understands the struggle that is business ownership & leadership. After successfully exiting his businesses, Russ now invests all of his time helping owner-operated businesses go further faster by clarifying the strategy and prioritizing actions with the ultimate goal of building a self-managing company. His client's revenue ranges from $7.0M to $1.5B annually. His ownership experience includes manufacturing services, medical devices, and consumer services. More importantly, Russ cares deeply that a business should be an asset that serves its stakeholders and not be a prison in which the owner serves. For more information, text or call Russ at 803-804-6970 or visit www.ownyourcategory.com to learn more & schedule a discovery call. Results Guaranteed!
Our Pool Of Advisors
EA boasts a pool of over fifty highly experienced entrepreneurial coaches, trained facilitators, advisors, and specialists across the country. Only the best of the best are invited to become Senior EA Advisors. Most are required to have at least one exit, formal experience as an owner/founder/CEO, formal strategy, facilitation training, and a minimum of 5,000 hours of facilitation and coaching. Many of our coaches far exceed this number, with several having over 15,000 hours.
These elite advisors must share our values and be willing to openly collaborate with each other in an effort to constantly improve and provide greater value for our clients. To be blunt, these professionals are wired for this and love what they do, which is why they excel at it. As a collective, if anyone ever gets stuck, they can lean on the group for additional resources or experience.
In addition, we have an extensive network of vetted resources for mid-manager leadership training, meeting facilitation, culture index, process creation, executive assistants, and many more areas.
Everyone we work with is experienced, vetted, and trusted.