Meet Our Coaching Team
As a Professional and Certified EOS Implementers®, we help entrepreneurs and their leadership teams solve root problems, lead more effectively, and gain Traction® in their businesses through a simple, proven operating system: the Entrepreneurial Operating System®, or EOS®.
The Coaches
Rick Fawcett - EOS Implementer®
Rick’s Three Uniques
Over 10 year’s experience working with EOS.
Rick started working with EOS in 2010, two years before the book Traction was published.
Trained in EOS by the best in the world.
EOS co-founder Don Tinney was Rick’s EOS Implementer in 2010.
Don is widely regarded as one of the best in the world in EOS coaching.
Experience as an operator and as an implementer.
Rick used EOS at three companies as an operator.
The first grew from $1.5M to $20M in two years.
The second grew from $12.5M to $39M in just over two years and was sold.
The third grew from $2M to $15M in two years and was sold.
Rick has been a 3rd party implementer since October 2019.
How Rick defines his ideal life
Three amazing kids taking the world by storm at 24, 22, and 21 years old
Christian with an ambition to become a Christian guide in Israel as a retirement gig
Worked in high-tech start-ups, for 28 years with an IPO and two acquisitions under his belt
Home Base
Fairfield, CT
Karen Bentlage, EOS Implementer
Karen’s Three Uniques:
Knows how to scale a business
Built, grew and sold 3 businesses at scale
Seasoned coach, facilitator and lifelong learner
EO Connecticut member 13 years, first female president of CT chapter
Work-life balance master
Has gone from the sleepless nights to financial freedom
How Karen defines her ideal life:
Married to an amazing man for 29 years
Spends time with two children as they are building their young adult lives
Strong supporter and Board member of Boys and Girls Club of Lower Naugatuck Valley and a More Balanced World, Pearl Community Empowerment Foundation in Uganda
Splitting time between Guilford CT and Lake Winnipesaukee, NH
Home Base:
Guilford, CT and Lake Winnipesaukee, NH
Kathryn Hennessey, EOS Implementer
Kathryn’s Three Uniques:
Raised in an entrepreneurial family with 20+ years experience in start-ups and refined hospitality
Intimately familiar with the challenges of small and medium business
Knows the high level of standard, meticulous attention to detail and client demands for key clients
Leveraged EOS at two tech start-ups since 2010
Experienced EOS as a leader and an employee
Seen and helped shift success from concept to reality
Embodies a relentless drive for order and accountability
Strength in spotting when something is not working and adapting quickly and thoroughly to fix
Kat’s clients are never alone!
How Kathryn defines her ideal life:
Married to the kindest man and in awe of my 16 year old son
Grateful to be working with my mentor and lifelong dear friend
Passionate about my clients, the genuine connections, powerful engagements, and deeply valued relationships
Travel, cuisine, landscapes and horses feed my soul
Home Base:
Nyack, NY
Joseph Jaffe, EOS Implementer
Joesph’s Three Uniques:
Serial Entrepreneur that has experienced the highs and lows of the journey and lessons from both
Passion for helping others realize their potential
Thought Leader in Marketing, Digital & Innovation
How Joseph defines his ideal life:
My weird accent is not from Staten Island; It’s South African
Married for <not long enough> years
3 Beautiful “children”: 22, 20 and 16
For my sins, I’m a lifelong Tottenham Hotspur fan
Practicing Cantor (but also known to hang out at School of Rock)
Was 1 and done with New York Marathon, but now 2 and done
Addicted to Peloton (follow me: @jaffejuice)
Home Base:
Fairfield, CT
Dan Bubniak, EOS Implementer
Dan’s Three Uniques:
1.Experienced Business Owner and Operator in a High Growth, People Oriented, Family Business.
Served as CFO, COO, and Co-Owner for family business and bootstrapped 20x growth over 6 years, becoming an industry leading national business with 250+ employees in 35+ states
Implemented EOS tools into business
2. Deeply connected to the small to mid sized business community, with rooted understanding of the challenges faced in growth.
Board Member of Entrepreneurs Organization CT. Connected to over 50 local businesses, focused on development and growth.
Have worked with over 300 companies, mostly small to midsize high growth businesses, as a service provider in previous roles
3. Passion for structure, accountability, and development
Dedicated to pushing leaders to reach their full potential.
My clients aren't alone in the tough decisions and challenges they will face.
How Dan defines his ideal life:
Married to my best friend. We met in second grade. It was love at first sight.
Proud Dad. Had my first child, my beautiful daughter Ava, 5 months ago. Life is much better with her in it.
Passionate about the kitchen. Both cooking and eating. I love working out, but only so I can eat more good food.
I do what I do because growing leaders and businesses brings me unlimited energy. There isn’t anything better than seeing others reach their potential.
Home Base:
Ridgefield, CT
Meryl Simmons, EOS Implementer
Meryl’s Three Uniques:
1. Meryl is a dynamic entrepreneurial leader, seasoned trainer, and enthusiastic change agent
Meryl brings a wealth of first hand and dynamic experience spanning across healthcare, medical devices, and the tech industry.
Meryl has experienced being an initial hire in a scale up, and held various positions across businesses of varying scale and size, experiencing meteoric growth (and failure).
2. Meryl gets energized when she can help businesses to grow and scale, enable people, process and revenue by moving beyond —”just winging it”
She’s expanded businesses from solitary establishments to double-digit locations
Served in pivotal roles, elevating revenues from tens of millions to hundreds of millions
Built, developed, and coached teams –all while navigating uncharted territory, experiencing triumphs and pitfalls
3. Meryl understands what it feels like to take bold risks and get stuck
Dedicated to pushing leaders to reach their full potential.
After being furloughed during uncertain times, Meryl took a leap of faith, changed paths, and established a successful coaching and consulting business
She’s felt the highs and lows associated with starting a business, and working closely with entrepreneurs.
How Meryl defines her ideal life:
As a Native New York City gal, I’m surprised by my love for working in our garden and our flock of hens
Passionate cook, health and wellness junkie, and world traveler
Home Base:
Meryl splits her time between Manhattan, NY and Sharon, CT
Stefani Calvano- Schwartz, EOS Implementer
Stefani’s Three Uniques:
1.Stefani Has used EOS as an operator before becoming an Implementer
Stefani used EOS as an Integrator for 4 years and was responsible for the growth of her company from three locations to seven, increasing revenue from $8.3M to $12.2M, getting them on the Inc 5000 list of America’s Fastest Growing businesses 3 years in a row and has been working with Outpace since 2019.
2. Obsessed with core values, company culture and creating employee and customer focused environments.
When your teams are happy, it trickles to your clients and customers. Stefani is a huge proponent of the Right People In the Right Seat which creates harmony in the organization and in turn creates a desire for the organization to succeed.
3. A total data, process and structure nerd!
With over 20 years of accounting and operations background; data, process and structure is Stefani’s love language.
A problem solver from way back, Stefani loves to drill down to the root of an issue and find the solution.
An absence of order creates chaos. Recognizing the need for structure and having the tools to create it and see it come to fruition are extremely rewarding.
How Stefani defines her ideal life:
Married to the kindest, most patient man on the planet. Together we created an incredible blended family of 5 wonderfully unique and vibrant children who we are now launching into young adulthood at 16, 17, 18, 18 and 21.
Spending as much time in nature as possible.
Having the privilege of working alongside smart, ambitious business owners and helping propel them to the next level.
An avid philanthropist, Stefani sits on the board of Pink Aid and A Better Chance Westport where she is committed to their growth and success.
Home Base:
Westport, CT
Flawless Execution
Leanne Soule, Operations and Marketing Manager
Primary Role:
Keeping the implementers focused on the business
Ensuring the calendars are flowing, books and binders are arriving, and things are generally working like clockwork
Leading Marketing efforts to help introduce EOS to small and medium businesses
Leanne’s ideal life:
Joined our team in December 2022. Leanne displays all aspects of our core values, being sharp, relentless, all-in, transparent, and principled. She came in to the business ready to learn and take charge.
She is passionate about helping others and determined to make her mark in this world. Leanne believes in EOS and its ability to help a business' succeed. She is working towards becoming an EOS Implementer one day.
Leanne is passionate about creating a better future for her daughter. To accomplish this, she plans to help grow businesses that emphasize sustainability and raise awareness. She has over 10 years of experience making homes in CT more energy efficient with the Energize CT program and continues to pursue this passion.
Leanne also has hidden talent! She is an event DJ! She loves to get the crowd moving and spread joy through music.
Home Base
Milford, CT
Each Session is 100% Guaranteed
Each session that Outpace works is 100% guaranteed. There is no fine print.
The details:
No contract. A session day gets scheduled and that’s it.
No up-front payment. The session occurs and a check is handed to the Outpace EOS Implementer. No pre-payment.
Fully guaranteed. If the session does not deliver value, the client does not pay.
No attitude. In the event that a day is not deemed effective, there is no negative attitude. The only thing the client will get is an apology.
The system works so this type of iron-clad guarantee works.
