Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in business development but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Devin Craig, Founder of CCG, located in Auburn, WA, USA.
What's your business, and who are your customers?
We help organizations and the people within them thrive! We help organizations as a whole, teams within organizations, and individual people managers.
Tell us about yourself
I am on a mission to help organizations and the people within them flourish, specifically by building awesome workplace cultures through honing clarity, building super people managers, and highly cohesive teams. I am an author of a book called Super Manager: How to Unlock People and Organizational Performance and Potential through Great People Leadership. I have a Master's degree in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga and my bachelor's in Political Science from UW. I have been a people manager at various levels in a wide variety of sizes and types of organizations ranging from Fortune 500s to small, independently owned franchisees and even the military.
My approach to teaching, training, coaching, consulting, and leading can best be described as simple, fun, and effective. I've helped thousands of people become better managers, succeed as new and experienced managers, build more high-performing teams and awesome work cultures and enjoy their work more and advance in their lives and careers. I have worked in a wide variety of industries and companies, including the military, private sector, service industry, retail, food, financial industry, and nonprofits. Most importantly, I am husband to my wife Brittney and father of 2 awesome boys, JC and Luke, and they live in Auburn.
What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
Building environments where people can thrive and so can become the organization.
What's one of the hardest things that come with being a business owner?
It's all on you! The wins and the fails! The buck stops with you.
What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
Stay the course and check and adjust constantly.
Where can people find you and your business?
Website: https://www.craigconsultinggroupccg.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CraigConsultGrp
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devincraigccg/
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