In business. With family. For yourself.
You built this life.Go live it.
I'm Brent Perkins. I work with CEOs and their leadership teams when too much depends on them, at work and at home.
What's in the way
Everybody's got one.
Who should have known better. What should have gone differently. Where you should be by now. Those expectations show up in your meetings, at your dinner table, and in the way you talk to yourself.
In business
With family
For yourself
You get a say in this.
sometimes it's as simple as
- Making an agreementinstead of carrying an expectation.
- Asking for what you wantnot just what you need.
- Showing uplike you mean it.
The empty seat
Nobody owns this.
Your COO owns operations. Your CFO owns the money. How you work together usually gets squeezed in between everything else.
You see it as decisions that take three meetings, the same problem solved twice, and your best people going home spent while wondering what it would look like to work somewhere else.
- Operationsthe workCOO
- Financesthe moneyCFO
- Leadership alignmenthow you work togetherBrent
Brent Perkins
I'm one of the kindest men you'll ever meet, and yet I'm not very nice.
I spent twenty-five years building businesses, a decade of it in the CEO seat, and most of an eighteen-year marriage carrying expectations I hadn't said out loud. I got very good at looking like everything was fine. This work started with me.
My first book, Papercuts: The Art of Self-Delusion, is about the patterns I had to interrupt in my own life, and maybe the patterns you need to interrupt in yours. My new book, The Shift List, puts that awareness into action with forty days of practicing how you want to show up.
“I have shown up this season in ways I've only dreamed of.”
CEO, Weickert Industries
“In a world of chaos, Brent Perkins provides a safe pair of hands. His vast experiences with corporate executive roles, leadership, family trials and tribulations, and personal reconciliation prove to be a robust set of skills to help others.”
Sr. Managing Director, Cerberus Capital Management
Bring your list.
You already know what's on it. The deal. The conversation. The marriage. You've left it on the table long enough.
It starts with one conversation. Together we find the unwritten rule that's been running in the background, and you leave knowing exactly which move to make first.
Let's go get it.