Operator-Led Coaching + Growth Projects™

Move a business priority forward while building your team’s ability to tackle the next one. Work with experienced operators on a Growth Project™ shaped around your challenge.

Build capability through the work that matters.

Growth Projects™ combine a real business challenge, an experienced operator-coach, and room for your team to take ownership.

Ownership from the start

Bring the people closest to the challenge into diagnosing it.

Leaders set the goal and guardrails; the team works out how to move forward.

Experience beside your team

Work with operators who have faced comparable decisions.

Coaching uses questions, feedback, and practical judgment to help the team test ideas and learn from the work.

Capability beyond the project

Build skills in context with a real-world business problem.

Introduce tools when they are needed, and capture what works so internal owners can support the next team.

Mindset → Skillset → Toolset

Create ownership, build skills through application, then introduce tools that support the work.

The AIRAS FRAMEWORK™ gives the work a practical rhythm: Align → Inspire → Reflect → Apply → Scale.

How Coaching Works

Your team brings the challenge and does the work. An experienced operator helps you make decisions, work through obstacles, and keep the project moving.
01

Define the priority

Choose a business challenge and agree on the people, scope, and outcomes that matter.
02

Build the working plan

Set practical deliverables, name owners, and agree on a coaching and review rhythm.
03

Put the plan to work

Apply practical tools to live work, with coaching to help resolve obstacles and make decisions.
04

Review and build capability

Assess progress, capture lessons, and agree on the next steps your team can carry forward.
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Growth & Pipeline: Hunt for Growth

See an example engagement

A launch workshop and ongoing coaching help cross-functional teams find, qualify, and advance real commercial opportunities.

Teams develop opportunity canvases, plans, owners, and next actions, then apply the approach to customer work with regular coaching.

This illustrative program shows an engagement from preparation through a review of progress and lessons learned.

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Meet the coaches and experts behind the work.

Our coaches and experts bring experience in commercial growth, research, marketing, and team resilience. We shape the team around your priorities and agree the right support for your project.

Kurt Friedmann

Kurt Friedmann

Growth Coach

Kurt designed and implemented sales and customer service training programs as a partner at Impact Learning Systems. He later led Mentored Pathways as CEO and has served as an advisor, investor, mentor, and coach to more than 700 companies.

John Follett

John Follett

Co-Founder | Demand Metric

John is the architect of the INSIGHTS™ Framework. His research has helped brands engage buyers, establish thought leadership, and build pipeline, with work for Salesforce, Adobe Marketo Engage, HubSpot, Smartsheet, and more than 100 other companies.

Jesse Hopps

Jesse Hopps

Founder | Commercial Excellence Consortium

Creator of the Mindset, Skillset, Toolset framework and Founder of Demand Metric, Jesse helps B2B teams turn strategy into practical capabilities. His consulting experience includes work with Microsoft, Mitsubishi, and Esri. His focus is helping leaders clarify priorities, put practical tools to use, and develop their teams’ ability to apply new approaches to real business challenges.

Ron Denoo

Ron Denoo

Growth Coach | Commercial Strategy

Ron brings commercial leadership experience from Mitsubishi Chemical Group, with a background spanning innovation, market strategy, and business leadership. As a Growth Coach, he helps teams work through live opportunities using practical tools, objective advice, and mentorship that supports better decisions and action.

Jerry Rackley

Jerry Rackley

Marketing Research & Analytics

Jerry combines four decades of sales and marketing experience with research, consulting, and teaching at Oklahoma State University. The author of Marketing Analytics Roadmap and a former Demand Metric Chief Analyst, he brings expertise in marketing strategy, customer understanding, content, and analytics.

Dr. Paul Stoltz

Dr. Paul Stoltz

Growth Coach | Resilience & AQ®

Founder and CEO of PEAK Learning and originator of Adversity Quotient®, Paul focuses on the science of resilience. His work on AQ and GRIT helps leaders respond constructively to change, strengthen adaptability, and build the mindset to keep progressing through difficult challenges.

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Demand Metric have been a great partner in helping us to retool our growth engine.

In addition to their useful templates, I have worked closely with them to conduct workshops, develop custom documents, provide coaching and other essential tasks and I have been extremely pleased with the results. Their service level is top-notch and they really commit as a business partner to help you improve. I highly recommend them.
Ron Denoo
Senior Director Market Strategy Development - Global

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