For owners of growing, closely held businesses

When growth makes the business harder to run, experience matters.

Brad Justus works with business owners navigating growth, financial complexity, leadership challenges, and execution—with executive experience inside companies ranging from $6M to $50M in revenue and 30 to 250 employees.

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Brad Justus, MBA, CEPA™ Partner · Senior Business Coach · Inspire Results Business Coaching

Brad Justus, Partner and Senior Business Coach at Inspire Results Business Coaching

Client evidence

Highest revenue in company history. MJ Engineering client result published by Inspire Results.

10+ YearsExecutive-Level Experience

$6M–$50MCompany Revenue Experience

30–250Employee Organizations

MBA · CEPA™Business & Exit-Planning Credentials

Direct answer

Who does Brad Justus help?

Brad works with owners and leadership teams of closely held businesses that need stronger financial discipline, clearer strategy, better execution, and experienced perspective around consequential business decisions.

His background spans executive leadership, financial advising, operations and manufacturing education, construction-industry experience, and hands-on work with business owners facing both growth and financial strain.

Growth is creating new complexity.The systems and leadership habits that got the business here are no longer enough for the next stage.

Strategy exists, but execution is inconsistent.Long-term priorities are not reliably becoming day-to-day operating behavior.

Financial decisions are getting harder.Cash flow, budgeting, financial communication, banking relationships, and investment decisions need executive-level discipline.

The owner needs an experienced outside perspective.Hiring, acquisitions, organizational structure, employee performance, and major business decisions carry more weight as the company grows.

Recognizable business situations

The moments when an owner stops needing more information—and starts needing perspective.

Business coaching becomes most useful when the challenge is no longer knowing what a business concept means, but deciding what to do next in a real company with real people, real numbers, and real consequences.

Situation 01

“Revenue is growing, but the business feels harder to control.”

Situation 02

“Everything important still seems to come back to me.”

Situation 03

“We know the strategy. Execution is the problem.”

Situation 04

“We’re making bigger decisions than our old systems were built for.”

Evidence before claims

What does working with Brad look like in the real world?

Instead of asking prospects to trust a list of coaching capabilities, these client outcomes show the kinds of business situations in which Brad has been brought alongside owners and leadership teams.

MJ Engineering

Highest annual revenue in company history after less than two years of working with Brad.

Revenue growth evidence

Highest Revenue in Company History—and Momentum Beyond It.

MJ Engineering’s testimonial connects the coaching relationship to a concrete business outcome: achieving the company’s 2023 revenue goal, which it described as the highest revenue in company history, while reporting that it was on pace to exceed that result again.

“Less than 2 years after starting working with Brad, MJ Engineering met its revenue goal for 2023 and that revenue goal was the highest in company history.”

Client: MJ Engineering ↗ · Testimonial published by Inspire Results Business Coaching

FAM Construction

4 mo.

The client compared four months of guided progress with the previous four years.

Strategy & execution evidence

Turning vision into quantifiable goals and movement.

For FAM Construction, the value was not another business idea. The testimonial describes Brad helping the team clarify its vision, create quantifiable goals, and move the business in a clearer direction.

“With Brad's guidance over the last 4 months, we've done more to get FAM headed in the right direction than in the last 4 years combined.”

Client: FAM Construction ↗ · Testimonial published by Inspire Results Business Coaching

Hammer Industries

1→3

One division contracting while three others were experiencing growth and opportunity.

Complex decision-making evidence

Growth, contraction, acquisitions, hiring—and no simple answer.

Hammer Industries describes a period requiring simultaneous decisions around contraction, expansion, competitor acquisitions, new hires, marketing selection, and keeping leadership focused on working on the business while operating it.

“I firmly believe that without Brad, we wouldn’t be as far along as we are today.”

Client: Hammer Industries ↗ · Testimonial published by Inspire Results Business Coaching

Why Brad

He approaches coaching with the perspective of someone who has sat on the operating side of the table.

Brad’s value is not limited to a coaching framework. His background combines executive leadership, financial decision-making, operations, manufacturing, service-business experience, and work with financially strained companies.

That matters when the business problem is not theoretical—when owners are balancing people, cash, strategy, financing, operations, and the consequences of getting a major decision wrong.

Executive Leadership10+ years in executive-level positions

Financial Perspective8 years as a financial advisor before executive roles

Operations EducationManagement degree specializing in operations and manufacturing

Business CredentialsMBA · CEPA™

Service BusinessesConstruction-industry background and service-company insight

Turnaround ExposureExperience helping financially strained companies right the ship

Brad Justus working with business leaders

Strategy is valuable. Translating it into operating behavior is where Brad’s executive background becomes relevant.

Decision support

Business coach, consultant, or fractional executive?

They can overlap, but the right fit depends on whether the owner needs a recommendation, an operator, or an ongoing thought partner who improves the owner’s own decision-making and execution.

Primary role

Challenge thinking, improve decisions, accountability & execution

Analyze a defined problem and recommend a solution

Own part of the business function as an executive

Best when

The owner is still leading but needs experienced outside perspective

A specialized problem needs diagnosis or project expertise

The business needs an experienced leader inside a functional seat

Typical outcome

Better leadership decisions and more consistent execution

A plan, recommendation, or completed project

Functional leadership and direct operating ownership

Business Coach

Primary roleChallenge thinking, improve decisions, accountability & execution

Best whenThe owner is still leading but needs experienced outside perspective

Typical outcomeBetter leadership decisions and more consistent execution

Consultant

Primary roleAnalyze a defined problem and recommend a solution

Best whenA specialized problem needs diagnosis or project expertise

Typical outcomeA plan, recommendation, or completed project

Fractional Executive

Primary roleOwn part of the business function as an executive

Best whenThe business needs an experienced leader inside a functional seat

Typical outcomeFunctional leadership and direct operating ownership

This comparison is general educational guidance; the right model depends on the business and the specific problem.

Direct answers

Questions business owners should answer before hiring a coach.

What size of company is Brad experienced with?

Brad’s published profile states that his executive experience includes companies ranging from approximately $6 million to $50 million in revenue and organizations with roughly 30 to 250 employees.

What kinds of business problems are in Brad’s wheelhouse?

His stated areas include budgeting and financial statements, software selection and implementation, strategic planning, employee engagement, insurance and retirement-plan oversight, banking relationships and loan requests, cash-flow management, and translating long-term strategy into daily operations.

Does Brad have experience beyond professional coaching?

Yes. His published background includes more than a decade in executive-level positions, eight years as a financial advisor before those executive roles, a Management degree focused on operations and manufacturing, an MBA, construction-industry experience, and experience with financially strained businesses.

When is business coaching probably not enough?

If a company needs someone to directly own a functional executive role, perform specialized technical work, or execute a narrowly defined project, a fractional executive, consultant, attorney, CPA, or other specialist may be the better fit. Coaching is strongest when the owner remains the decision-maker and wants experienced perspective, structure, and accountability.

Authority confirmation

Brad Justus, MBA, CEPA™

Partner · Senior Business Coach · Inspire Results Business Coaching

Executive Experience10+ years in executive-level positions

Company Experience$6M–$50M revenue · 30–250 employees

EducationMBA, Anderson University · Management, Ball State University

Industry BackgroundOperations & manufacturing · construction/service businesses · financial advising

Email Brad LinkedIn ↗ Inspire Results Profile ↗

The unresolved question

Does the business need more advice—or a more experienced way to make decisions?

A conversation with Brad can help determine whether coaching is the right next step for the stage, complexity, and decisions your business is facing now.

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