by sgelbard | Jul 2, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
Every founder and executive faces a version of the same gut-wrenching question at some point in their career: is this a problem we need to push through, or a signal we need to change course? The stakes are high. Persisting too long in the wrong direction can exhaust...
by sgelbard | Jul 2, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
There is a conversation I find myself having regularly with the founders and family business owners I advise — a conversation that tends to produce immediate, visible discomfort. It goes something like this: your board is too close to you. You need an independent...
by sgelbard | Jul 2, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
There is a moment in every engagement — whether I’m stepping into a company as an advisor, helping a family office reposition its portfolio, or guiding a management team through a cross-border transaction — where the entire arc of the relationship is quietly...
by sgelbard | Jul 2, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
We celebrate growth. We celebrate the companies that doubled revenue in a year, the founders who built from zero to fifty employees in eighteen months, the executives who opened three new markets in two years. Business culture has constructed an entire mythology...
by sgelbard | Jul 2, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
There is a prevailing narrative in business culture — particularly in the technology and startup world — that equates youth with innovation, speed with intelligence, and disruption with leadership. The founder in the hoodie. The twenty-something who saw something the...
by sgelbard | Jul 2, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
I’ve sat across the table from a lot of leaders in crisis mode. And almost every time, somewhere in the first conversation, I hear a version of the same sentence: “We should have done this six months ago.” They’re right. And they know it. What...
