What they Say...

Les really captures the integration of key business processes, people, and leadership to consistently deliver a compelling vision, comprehensive plan, and profitable growth for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Predictable Success provides an incredibly useful blueprint for any leader who is looking for sustainable growth.

He's got it right. Les McKeown has uncovered the core dynamics of organizational growth, and mapped it to the best (and worst!) practices to achieve and maintain optimal, in-your-zone conditions - no matter where a group is in its evolution. This is real-world expertise, with simple but subtle and sophisticated prescriptions for all of us involved in getting things done with other people. And, oh yeah, he nailed how to address some key opportunities in my own company.

I feel comfortable ranking Les as the very best in the field.

It's difficult to predict success. Failure is far easier to predict because it's where most people end up. But if you want predictable success, then this is for you. And you might find that Les' formula for predicting success is not what you think.

Les McKeown has the ability to read minds and diagnose problems nobody else seems to be able to name, let alone solve. His books and insights have helped me become a far better leader

Les McKeown has for over 7 years assisted us in the growth and development of our distributorship network. His understanding of what makes a business succeed - and a passionate commitment to teaching others how to accomplish.

Predictable Success provides a robust framework for any business leader wanting to achieve consistent and profitable growth. Les McKeown's real world descriptions of company growth cycles should be heeded by all managers.

Finally - a book that can serve as a blueprint for anyone trying to get the most from everyone in their organization. Les McKeown’s fresh perspective on the persistent problem of bringing together people with different work styles is a must-read for anyone who works with groups or teams.

Les McKeown is absolutely on top of his game. Les not only knows - and shows - how your businesses can grow and succeed, he explains it a way that is intuitive, entertaining and immediately actionable.

Les McKeown clearly has a deep understanding of how businesses grow.

Les provides a sensible and strategic playbook for any leader seeking to take their organization to the next level, and provides the conceptual framework to ensure a successful outcome.

Les McKeown has an intuitive understanding of why and how business works. 'Predictable Success' is practical and easy to understand - exactly what any executive needs to grow his business,

Predictable Success is without a doubt the best organizational growth methodology out there. It has become an integral part of our organizational DNA and has delivered far more than I could have imagined or expected.My only regret? That I waited 2 years from our first conversation before I began working personally with Les and his group.

I’ve joined the Predictable Success MasterMind Group because it is very important to me to associate with like-minded peer executives who share a common dialogue and vocabulary, and a commitment to the Predictable Success model. I'm particularly looking forward both to the exchange of ideas and the accountability the group can provide.

Working with Les has been one of the best decisions that I’ve made in the last several years.As a part of our coaching sessions, Les helped me to see where we had gaps in the business and work through the process to close them. In our sessions we dealt with organizational issues, people issues, process issues and my own development as a leader. I didn’t always hear what I wanted, but I always heard what I needed to hear.Les's coaching gave me the tools I needed to have the courageous conversations that we needed to have, and enabled me to do so in a positive and impactful way. The wealth of experience & knowledge that Les brings to the table provides a path forward in a practical and useful manner, rather than just the high-level theories that we so often read about. In almost every conversation, Les was able to shed light on a challenge, help me to see things through a new lens, and he would often provide a tool or action plan that I could put into immediate action.If your business is having challenges as you grow, I would highly recommend investing in your future by working with Les. Your investment will pay significant dividends.

Here at Northpoint Ministries we are fiercely committed to our Strategic Partner Group, and seek to provide them with only the highest quality outside resources. As the keynote speaker at our annual Strategic Partner Gathering, Les McKeown delivered precisely that.Les' presentation was insightful, searingly practical. and hit the precise balance of humor, engagement, information, tools and motivation to act. As an event organizer, you learn quickly that the real impact of a speaker is best gauged by real-world audience feedback, and I can honestly say Les's keynote was outstanding and the feedback from the attendees affirmed this in every way.If you are planning an event for high-level leaders and you want a keynote that will blow your audience away, I can't recommend Les McKeown highly enough.

I started working with Les McKeown when I realized needed to rebuild our organization's 'chassis' - the entire management infrastructure - while at the same time keeping the business moving forwardThis was clearly going to be stressful and complicated - but it was vital if we were to get to the next stage in growth.Les helped me identify the changes I needed to make in how we were running the business, guided me each step of the way, and held me accountable for implementing the actions we agreed. With Les's facilitation, I re-defined our management roles, brought in new expertise to the management team, restructured our group interactions and communications, and revamped some functional areas and introduced some new ones such as recruiting, training and retention.If you're a business owner or a CEO looking to take your business to the next level, I'd strongly recommend you hire Les McKeown. The best investment you can make in your future growth is in his coaching program.

Les's ability to move seamlessly between teacher and facilitator with executives at the highest level in the organization made our strategic offsite one of the most valuable, results-oriented team experiences our senior executive group has had to date.

Les helped me identify three specific areas in which my leadership could be improved: Conflict management, team motivation and performance review. With his guidance, I developed a wholly new suite of tools that enabled me to radically improve in all three area over a six month period - progress that was validated by my team's honest feedback.Perhaps the greatest benefit you will receive from entering into a coaching relationship with Les is his complete commitment to your personal and professional development. Les will confirm you in your strengths and abilities, build your confidence and extend your existing skills considerably.At the same time, he will not shirk from telling you the hard things you need to hear, confronting you with the barriers to your personal development and challenging you to see your own blind spots.If you have reached a point at which you realize you need expert help in developing your leadership skills, I strongly recommend you reach out to Les McKeown.

I learned more from Les than in my cumulative 15 years previous business experience. Les came in from the outside and was able to both accurately identify our current and future business challenges as well as provide us with strategies and solutions for dealing with them effectively. It was like he had been there all along!

Les, I wanted to thank you for writing this book. I read it over the weekend and found it very helpful in understanding myself, my current evolution as a leader and my organization that is starting to scale. You articulated things in an understandable way that allowed me to better understand and validate what I was feeling but not able to put words to. Thank you.

If you want a road map to get to the next stage with your organization, I urge you to get on board with Les McKeown. Quite simply - there is no better, more intuitive, results-focused business growth process than Predictable Success!

The Predictable Success Mastermind Group is the perfect vehicle for me, because here at VRC Metal Systems have a very wide ranging target market and I have to scale the business to satisfy that market. I can't think of a better group to help me do that.

This book has come at the perfect time. Predictable Success will completely change the way you think about growing your business. Absorb its ideas before your competitors do!

I’ve experienced first-hand the positive impact and lasting change that Les McKeown's Predictable Success brings to a growing business - and to its leaders. If you want to structure your organization to get to the next stage in growth, and also want to develop personally as a leader, I strongly recommend you get started with Predictable Success.

The Predictable Success model vastly accelerated our success, and saved us from a multitude of potential ‘dead-ends’. I thoroughly recommend Les McKeown for any business wanting to break through to the next stage in growth.

Embracing change and using it positively is a fundamental requirement for growth in any organization, and the health care industry today is ripe for change in all sectors. In Predictable Success, Les McKeown provides simple, elegant, and effective tools for all leaders to understand why and how change occurs in their organizations, and teaches us how to harness that change to achieve success and competitive advantage in our fields. Les McKeown’s ideas and insights are brilliantly written, entertaining, and easy to grasp and implement - no effective CEO or manager should miss this book!

There is literally a smile, uncomfortable frown, or a holy crap! on each page.

Les helped us identify the changes we needed to make in how we were running the business, guided us each step of the way, and held us accountable for implementing the actions we agreed. With Les’s facilitation, we re-defined our management roles, brought in new expertise to the management team, and restructured our group interactions and communications. If you’re a business owner or a CEO looking to take your business to the next level, I’d strongly recommend you contact Les McKeown.

Predictable Success is the 'ah-ha' book. Les's insight and real-world stories are not only entertaining, they clearly detail the different stages in the lifecycle of a company, and more importantly, how to avoid declining into 'treadmill' and 'death rattle'. A 'don't-miss' business book!

The Predictable Success Online Acceleration Program has been a great investment for me and my team. It has helped us establish a shared vocabulary we now use when we talk about growth. It has been a great tool to help us openly discuss how we want to grow and the path we need to lay out to get there.The video coaching sessions with Les have been especially useful to us as we worked through the implementation of our growth action plan. Les has helped facilitate how we can dig deeper into any execution potholes or barriers we encountered an overcome them.Growing a business is not easy. Growing without a plan to handle the growth is a challenge. The Predictable Success Acceleration Program is helping us outline where we want to go, and how we need to build our business to get there.