OUR TEAM
Rick Barrera has been coaching and training top advisors for over 30 years for most of the top financial services firms. He is an author, speaker, consultant, and coach, known for his unique approach to
leadership, growth, revenue generation and client service. His coaching and consulting focus on designing and delivering unique client experiences that drive high levels of revenue and referrals.
He is the Head of Faculty for The Center for Heart Led Leadership in Denver Colorado, and CEO of Connective Partners, an M&A investment group.
He is known as “The Ideal Life Accelerator” for the coaching work he does with advisors helping them to build their Ideal Practice and their Ideal Lives while teaching them how to help their clients live into their Ideal Lives.
You can learn more about Rick at www.barrera.com
He has written 11 books on leadership, marketing, branding, sales, client service and personal development. Learn more at www.RickBarrerabooks.com
Jeff Krahl International Business Consultant, Best Selling Author, Speaker, Trainer, and Certified High Performance Coach™.
Since 2003 Jeff has focused on coaching Financial Advisors
to create the personal breakthroughs that deliver extraordinary business results. His advisors have worked for every major financial Services brand in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK, South Africa and Central America.
Jeff Krahl is an entrepreneur who empowers business owners to building their Ideal Business and live their Ideal Life. He is a family guy with an extraordinary wife and 4 amazing kids.
FAQS
Great question — and the short answer is no.
This zoom call is a business assessment, not a pitch.
We’ll walk you through a clear roadmap that pinpoints what’s slowing your growth in adding $36k ideal clients while working a 3 day work week. We cover client acquisition, service capacity, bottlenecks and more....
If there’s a fit to go further, we’ll let you know. But if not? You’ll still walk away with more clarity, tools, and the Category of One Blueprint — no pressure, no gimmicks. We are currently at this time waiving our $997 fee for this call.
You’ll get 3 very tangible things:
1. A real-time analysis of your practice’s growth stage as well as leaving the call knowing where you’re stuck and why.
2. A customized roadmap based on what we’ve seen work for other top RIAs
3. Clarity on how the “Category of One Advisor Blueprint” (our proven framework for acquiring $36k Ideal Clients)
You’ll leave knowing what to do next — whether we work together or not. And again we are currently waiving our $997 fee for this call.
Absolutely, in fact, one of the reasons we created this blueprint is because compliance was killing creativity and momentum for most advisors we spoke to. As you know as an RIA and Independent Advisor you have the ability to set more of your own rules inside your custom built compliance.
We focus on strategic positioning, community, charities, strategic connections, and systemization. This isn't some gimmicky marketing or outbound hacks that put you at risk.
We’ve worked with RIAs who manage $50M to $500M+ AUM, solo independents, and multi-advisor teams for over multiple decades.
And every one of them believed at first that their situation was “different.”
But the truth is, the growth bottlenecks follow patterns. We’ve refined our blueprint to work because it adapts to your stage of business, whether you’re in expansion, delegation, or exit prep.
This is not one-size-fits-all advice — it’s a proven model that we tailor to you.
Let’s flip the question: How many ideal clients are you missing out on by staying stuck in reactive mode?
If your calendar’s full, but your business isn’t scalable, then every day is costing you time, energy, and opportunities.
This 45 minute call could save you months of spinning your wheels and thousands in missed leverage whether we find you to be a fit for our Category of One Community. Your clients need the best version of your business. This is how you create it.