Certified Business Growth Coach | Bloom Growth™
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What if growing your business felt like freedom instead of chaos?

For founders and leadership teams running between $5M and $150M who are ready to stop reacting and start leading. I'll personally sign a copy of Flourish and mail it to you.

Two quick steps. U.S. addresses only. No catch — and no sales call unless you want one.

Flourish open to the Epic Event chapter with Rich's Inc. 5000 award
If this sounds familiar

You didn't start this to take your laptop on your family vacation.

You — and your family — deserve better.

The laptop that goes everywhere with you. The vacation that wasn't because every decision still routes through you. The Sunday nights spent catching up on a Friday that never quite closed.

The team is talented. They want to step up. But the org chart has a single point of failure — and it has your name on it.

Another quarter ends. Another revenue band, maybe. But the operating rhythm hasn't changed — and neither has what it's costing your time, your relationships, or your peace of mind.

The cost of staying here

What another year of running it this way is quietly costing you.

  • The hire you needed six months ago but couldn't define the role for.
  • The peer who passed you in revenue last year because they had an operating system and you had grit.
  • The 4× growth rate the businesses with Bloom are running while you're holding flat.
  • The version of the company you'd build if your team didn't need you to be the bottleneck.
The framework behind 4× growth

The operating system 4,600+ businesses use to grow with clarity instead of grit.

Flourish, by Todd Smart with Isaiah Nolte — co-creators of the Bloom Growth Operating System — is the practical doorway into the framework that 4,600+ companies run on. Not theory. Not another framework deck. A working rhythm for the team meetings you actually have, the strategy work you actually do, and the accountability you've been trying to build.

4,600+
Organizations on BGOS
175,000+
Leaders trained
4×
Average growth rate
Align your team.
Build shared vision and accountability without micromanaging.
Within 90 days
Love your meetings.
Turn the meetings everyone dreads into your sharpest leadership tool.
Within 30 days
Scale with clarity.
Replace founder-dependent chaos with an operating rhythm the whole org can trust.
By next quarter
Lead with purpose.
Reconnect to why you built this in the first place.
Starting Monday
Voices from the work

What changes when the system finally clicks.

“We have grown 5× our initial size over the past three years.”

Andy Shultz
COO, Superior Mobile Health

“It has been an absolute game changer for our business.”

Debbie Winchester
CEO, Chicago Design Network

“This is the most fun, stimulating work I have ever done.”

Michael Krogh
Strategic Planning, Amour Roofing

“It's just a necessary tool. I probably wouldn't be as effective if I didn't have it for my team.”

Jon Kaplan
CEO & Founder, Kaplan Consulting
Why I'm putting this book in your hands

I built it the hard way. You don't have to.

Rich Palarea
Certified Bloom Growth Coach — click to verify
Certified Bloom Growth™ Coach

Six startups. Two exits. The biggest was Kermit (now Genesis Healthcare) — a tech-enabled healthcare company I co-founded and scaled to a private equity exit over fifteen years, with a team that delivered hundreds of millions in savings for hospitals along the way.

The principles in Flourish are what I wish I'd had earlier in that journey. They're the system I use with every leadership team I coach today. If you're a founder ready for what's next, I'd rather hand you the book than watch you reinvent it.

Recognition & affiliations
Listmaker 2021, 2022
Top Ten Listmaker 2020
5 Year Board Member,
Current President
The offer

Claim your free copy of Flourish.

Personally signed. Shipped to your door. No catch — and no sales call unless you want one.

Quick step before we ship: two questions to make sure Flourish is the right fit for where you are.

What's your annual revenue?
How many people are on your leadership team?

I have fewer than 50 signed books in stock — and they go fast.

My personal guarantee. No contracts. 10× return on investment. If you're not getting results, just cancel our next session. That's never happened — but the offer stands.

Not ready for the book? Let's just talk.

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Certified Bloom Growth™ Coach · President, EO Baltimore