Chuck Blakeman is a successful entrepreneur, an internationally acclaamed writer and speaker, best-selling author with the #1 Business Book of 2014, TEDx speaker, and world-renowned business advisor.
Chuck’s great passion is for small business owners and independent sales people. He built thirteen small businesses in ten industries on four continents, and as a Results Leader, writes and speaks from his entrepreneurial experience. He also has decades of experience re-humanizing the workplace with larger companies including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Eli Lilly, TAP Pharmaceuticals, Sun Microsystems, Johns Manville and many more.
His company, Crankset Group, helps business owners and independent sales people find freedom in their business, not from it, make more money in less time, get off the treadmill, and get back to the passion that brought them into business.
Chuck was a regular Inc. magazine contributor for years, and has appeared in CNN online, Entrepreneur, Success, NYTimes online, and other publications. He also has a podcast for business owners and the Top Three rated podcast for dentists.