The Push to Make a Difference

The Seeds of Push

Every sto­ry has its start and for Tina, Tom­my, and Dan­ny — like many entre­pre­neurs— it was a shaky one. The Co-founders were fresh­ly out of school, when they decid­ed to dodge the nine-to-five and do some­thing dif­fer­ent — only, it took a few kicks at the can.

At the start of their jour­ney, they had a hypoth­e­sis that there was an oppor­tu­ni­ty in pay­roll for restau­rants. Push knocked on the door of var­i­ous restau­rants, some­times even under the guise of stu­dents com­plet­ing a the­sis to under­stand what the real oppor­tu­ni­ty was. And they were met with over­whelm­ing kind­ness and open­ness. What they could see plain­ly was that restau­rants were putting time into process­es that took away from their strengths and passions.

Their the­sis proved accu­rate. They’ve built a ter­rif­ic com­pa­ny serv­ing thou­sands of peo­ple and in the last 3 years alone, they have 5Xed their MRR (month­ly recur­ring rev­enue). Suf­fice it to say, they’ve nev­er looked back. 

Reach­ing Out to a Coach

With growth comes respon­si­bil­i­ty and Push want­ed to keep the train on the tracks. The com­pa­ny had made a splash but the next push was to estab­lish lead­er­ship, cul­ture, pri­or­i­ties, and goals. Hav­ing out­grown the start-up phase, Push was ready to put in place a sys­tem for man­ag­ing the cul­ture. They were doing well, but they knew they could be better. 

And that’s where Dean Ritchey, Strate­gic Advi­sor at Lawrence & Co. came in. Push was clear from the start. They want­ed to find align­ment and with Dean’s help, the team tran­si­tioned to a set of seam­less process­es. They inte­grat­ed key Jim Collins prin­ci­ples and a great one-page plan. Sud­den­ly, they had pre­dictabil­i­ty and they could proac­tive­ly solve problems.

The Results

In the course of their trans­for­ma­tion, Push estab­lished new rou­tines amongst the lead­er­ship team which result­ed in more sat­is­fac­tion day-to-day and bot­tom-line growth. They built out a fun cul­ture that focused on mon­i­tor­ing and con­tribut­ing to the well-being of each per­son in their orga­ni­za­tion. And impres­sive­ly, these tweaks led to a 5X of their MRR over three years. 

To learn more about how Tina, Dan­ny, and Tom­my made the Push for last­ing change in their orga­ni­za­tion, read the full case study here.

You can watch the full inter­view here:

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Look­ing for a coach to assist you with your growth? If you and your orga­ni­za­tion could ben­e­fit from this or you know anoth­er entre­pre­neur­ial leader who might, con­nect with Kevin@​lawrenceandco.​com