Craig Paxson, BCC, CEPA, SPP
I am a Board Certified Executive Coach, Certified Exit Planning Advisor, and Strategic Planning Professional focusing on helping business owners maximize the value of their business, minimize their involvement, and turn their vision into predictable, scalable results.
Experience
– Former CEO of an $8 million dollar business
– Mentor at Nashville Entrepreneur Center, Jumpstart Refinery, and SCORE
– over 30 years of management and consulting experience
Skills
– Board Certified Executive Coach
– Strategic Planning Professional – Internaltional Association for Strategic Planning
– Business Strategy Specialization – University of Virginia
– Certified Exit Planning Advisor
– M.B.A. – Belmont University
– Accredited Small Business Consultant
– Best-Selling Author
– Toastmasters Contest-Winning Speaker
– Tennessee Baldrige Performance Excellence examiner
– Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach
– Member of the Association for Strategic Planning, Private Directors Association, and Association for Corporate Growth
– Member of of the World Business and Executive Coach Summit, Institute of Management Consultants, and the International Coach Federation.
Passion
I believe that “my success lies behind your success.” Behind in this context means three things:
1. I am standing behind you – you are at the forefront – I do not expect, or desire, to be the hero. Your success is your success.
2. I am behind you pushing you forward. I provide inspiration, advice, and sometimes a kick in the rear to keep you moving forward.
3. My success comes only after you have succeeded – I do not feel like I have been successful unless, and until, you succeed.
As a consultant and coach, I think a lot about leadership and strategy. My career purpose is to “Build Personal and Organizational Leaders” who can help their organizations achieve their vision.
I have a passion for learning and teaching. I read dozens of books each year, along with dozens of blogs and magazines, and I like to pass along the knowledge I have gleaned.
I believe that “Leaders Aren’t Born. Leaders Aren’t Made. Leaders Follow a Process.” In other words, people are or are not leaders; they do leadership activities and follow “The Process of Leadership.” And like every process, the Process of Leadership has inputs, steps, and outputs and can be documented, taught, and learned.
I have worked in organizations large and small as an executive and manager; in stable and turnaround situations; and as an independent consultant in publishing, healthcare, and other fields. My career began as a process improvement specialist for a newspaper printer. After I received a Master’s Degree in Quality Assurance, I moved to Nashville, TN, to work for an airline ticket printer (if you didn’t know, airlines used to issue paper tickets). I was fortunate to join Ingram Book Company to turn around their innovative but struggling digital print operation and ran that operation for several years. I moved to the healthcare arena and worked for a decade as a manager and consultant focusing on helping healthcare companies improve their billing processes.
Immediately before starting Visionary Results, I was CEO of Professional Credential Services and Executive Vice President of Virtual, Inc. I was an independent consultant helping organizations with process improvement and management issues.
I have created several frameworks, including the “Infinite Ideas” brainstorming methodology, “The Process Innovation Framework,” “The Process of Leadership,” and the “Visionary Results System.”
To learn more about how I operate, visit My Principles page.
As a member of the International Coach Federation, I have agreed to abide by a Code of Ethics.
