The Only Business Consultant Who Guarantees Your Return.

From an owner bottleneck to a stronger organization: clearer accountability, better decisions, healthier systems, and leaders who can run the business without every issue passing through you.

What the 2:1 guarantee promises

For every dollar you invest in Jerry's time, you will earn back at least two dollars in profit within one year. Not a satisfaction guarantee. Not a money-back-if-you-ask. A documented, profit-measured, 2-to-1 return on your investment.

Measurable profit improvement must equal at least twice the consulting fees paid, within one year, tracked against your baseline numbers before the engagement started. The commitment is in writing. Jerry explains the reasoning in What Is the 2:1 Payback Guarantee and Why Do We Offer It?

How the baseline is set

Before any engagement begins, we establish your baseline numbers. Depending on the scope, that includes current revenue by segment, gross margin percentages, operating profit, the specific KPIs tied to the work (sales pipeline metrics, productivity rates, retention rates and similar), and any other measure relevant to the engagement. Those numbers become the yardstick, recorded alongside the written proposal that states the scope, the timeline and the exact investment.

How payback is measured over twelve months

Twelve months after the engagement is complete, we measure the same numbers again and calculate the profit improvement attributable to the changes made during the engagement. If that improvement is at least twice the consulting fees paid, the guarantee is satisfied.

We only take credit for changes we can directly attribute to the engagement. Macroeconomic tailwinds and unrelated market shifts are not counted. The measurement is honest in both directions.

What happens if we don't hit it

If we don't hit it, we keep working at no cost to you until we do. If measurable profit improvement does not reach twice the consulting fees within one year, the difference is refundable. Jerry has rarely completed an engagement where this benchmark wasn't met, and if your situation makes a direct profit outcome impossible to measure, he will tell you before you commit to anything.

What it covers

Whether you are looking for leadership coaching for maximizing your potential or boots-on-the-ground management consulting for leadership development, or business consulting services to streamline systems and processes with or without AI, Business Whisperer builds with you customized business solutions to resolve your key challenges, and then to bring your goals and your dreams into measurable reality.

The guarantee applies across every engagement type: performance improvement, sales management, profitability consulting, organizational change, business analysis, leadership development, HR and recruitment, corporate culture, family business and small business consulting. See management consulting for how those engagements are run.

What it does not cover

• Profit that comes from the economy or the market rather than from the work. Only improvement directly attributable to the engagement counts.
• Projects not built around a direct profit outcome, such as certain kinds of assessment or planning work. If your project is that type, or the 2:1 is for any reason unattainable, Jerry tells you up front and you decide whether to continue.

Why Jerry offers it

Three reasons. First, thirty-five years of experience across enough industries that predictable results are actually predictable. Second, Jerry only takes engagements where he is confident the 2:1 is achievable; if a business does not offer that much latent profit opportunity, or will not execute the required changes, he turns it down. Third, he works shoulder-to-shoulder with clients to install changes, not just recommend them. The outcomes on the client results page are the reason the guarantee is possible.

Every engagement starts with a free 60-minute initial consultation, where we decide together whether the 2:1 is achievable before any commitment is made. Contact Jerry to arrange it.

A worked illustration

Project fees fall into three brackets, explained in How Much Does a Business Consultant Cost? The arithmetic is the same at every level:

• A focused project at $15,000 must return at least $30,000 in measurable profit improvement within one year.
• A multi-quarter engagement at $30,000 must return at least $60,000.
• A long-term transformation at $75,000 must return at least $150,000.

In each case the improvement is checked against your baseline twelve months after completion. If it falls short, the difference is refundable.

"Within three years my profit grew by 1000%. Currently, we are at a 2000% increase over the baseline. Jerry's bedside manner is well honed, easy to get along with, and non-threatening — all at the same time." — Jeff Murray, President & CEO, White Mountain Foods

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