Virtuoso Team Consulting, Inc.

During an economic downturn, if you can’t find a job, you make one. I was unlucky enough to finish graduate school during the down-swing of the worst recession since the Great Depression. In an effort to turn lemons into lemonade I decided to apply my new MBA and seven years of banking experience to helping small business owners achieve success during this difficult time. The following will be a record of the goals I plan to achieve, the lessons I learn, and the people I meet.

For the last thirteen years I have worked closely with the owners of small and medium sized businesses as their private banker, confidante, and advisor. This relationship allowed me to learn from their successes as well as their failures. By comparing and contrasting the different methods used by each person, I was able to determine what worked and where mistakes were being made. After spending the last eight years in banking I decided it was time for a change, so I started working on my MBA. Two years later I graduated with honors from Regis University, a Jesuit university in Denver, Colorado. It just so happened that during the last six months of my studies, the economy was sent into a dizzying tailspin from which it has yet to recover.

After applying to a number of positions over a period of months, I decided it was time for me to do what I always wanted to do, start my own consulting firm. It occurred to me that if I was unable to find a job, I should go ahead and create one with the possibility of creating more jobs for others. A number of my friends and classmates, each with different skill sets, agreed to lend me their experience in order to help me achieve this goal.

Virtuoso Team Consulting, Inc. was formed with the specific intent of helping the owners of small and medium sized businesses achieve their goals in a deliberate and cost effective manner. Ironically, this was also the first hurdle I was to experience. After working hard for two years in graduate school to earn a business degree, I discovered there was an important aspect of business that was missing from my education: How to start one. Again, not one to dwell on the negative, I took this as a learning opportunity and proceeded to gather information I would need to start a subchapter S Corporation in Florida. It has been a really interesting learning experience, and I now have enough experience to help others who want to follow their dreams.

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