Todd D Palmer is the collaborative business advisor and CEO of Extraordinary Advisors (EA). Simply put, Extraordinary Advisors (EA) helps business leaders Get S#!t Done. As the CEO of a 6-time INC 5000 company, Todd knows that business success begins and ends with people. People make all of the business decisions regarding strategy, execution, cash and staff. Todd isn’t happy until his clients trust themselves as leaders, AND their decisions. He won’t rest until teams trust the leaders AND each other. He knows they’ve nailed it when CEOs and their leadership teams take action towards high-level achievement, resulting in clients that trust the company. (Read: more sales, more profits, more partnerships.)
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Richard Branson
- Jim Collins
- Jeff Bezos
When business started difficulties overcame:
“We were profitable day 72 it was amazing, what that did though it created a false sense of what I knew so by 2006 when the economy started to go into a decline before the recession we were in really bad shape, because I didn’t know how to read financials, I just knew how to sell, how to deliver the people and collect the cheques I didn’t know how to budget”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Freak Factor: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness Book by David J. RendallFavourite Quote:
“Success is doing what you want, when you want, as often as you want to do it and whom you want to do it with”
Recommended Online Resources:
Gazelles – Strategic Planning Insights. Original One-Page Strategic Plan
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“You need to find your tribe, as an entrepreneur you’re already one of the crazy ones, you’re already different than most of the people you’re going to interact with who have jobs who aren’t looking to start a company. For me my tribe is EO, we’ve grown up together as entrepreneurs, we’ve seen part of our group get married, get divorced, have children, start a business, lose a business, close a business, go through lawsuits, make a lot of money, lose a lot of money and we have a cohesion within the group that we can be real, authentic, invulnerable to a level that is typically not found in normal society because entrepreneurs we carry a lot of responsibility”…[Listen for More]
More About Todd D Palmer:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Listen to clients, employees, and peers and stay open to their ideas, feedback, and answers. Doing so is vital to the success of any leader.” Adena Friedman
Other Quotes From the Chat with Todd D Palmer:
- “Play to your strengths, not your weaknesses”
- “What’s weird about you makes you wonderful”
- “The things that make you ‘weird’ are wrong. I like the message of inclusion that is what is special and unique about you is really your secret sauce, he has a speaker who comes on, he talks about himself he say’s as a kid I was told that I talk too much, I can’t focus and pay attention, I have ADD, blah blah blah and then he goes, here’s what I do for a living, I speak for an hour a day and I make a great living.”
- “Do less of what you don’t do well and if you can, outsource or hire someone else to do it for you”
- “To be successful you have to define success for yourself”
Todd Palmer
Thank you for having me on the Podcast, I enjoyed the conversation!
Neil Ball
You are welcome Todd! I enjoyed chatting with you.