Age and Stage with Allen Edwards
Let me start here: You want to know Allen Edwards. He is fun. He is fascinating. He is funny!
Before Allen started Eureka Process, he was homeless in Mexico. Yes, you heard me correctly (and I appreciate his vulnerability in sharing). He had left a successful IT job and went on walkabout. He was doing some social media management when a friend asked if he could help out another friend in running an IT firm. The universe had a calling and Allen grabbed it. Today, Allen is the founder and CEO of Eureka Process, a consulting firm that helps Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with both business strategy and tactical execution.
What I appreciate so much about Allen is that he cares deeply about his clients and is not brazen enough to just provide tactical and process support if the company strategy isn’t clear. In other words, Allen acts on the belief that if you can’t answer the “why,” the “what” becomes a lot less clear.Â
Allen spends some time on the podcast talking about the concept of “age and stage.” Where the company is at in terms of age of business model development and stage of company growth will dictate the level of intensity required for both strategy and process. If you’re an emerging company and trying to implement scaling strategy and process, you’re likely going to fall flat. Know thyself!Â
Once you have a good strategy in place and a blueprint for where you want to go—which Eureka can help you develop—you can then get down to tactical execution. And a lot of that work for Eureka happens inside of ConnectWise Manage, the PSA (Professional Service Automation) for thousands of MSPs nationally. Allen shares how just having a tool or piece of software is not the goal. The goal is to understand what problem you’re trying to solve and creating the plan for how to achieve it.
Call Eureka Process when, according to Allen, “You are beginning to have stagnation or hatred for your job. As soon as you start heading in that direction and you don’t have a solution that you control in front of you, you can’t hope, you’ve got to do it. If you don’t know what your clear action steps are to solve whatever is making your life less good, I’ll fix it. Life’s too short to suffer.”
And trust me, Allen is passionate about helping people not suffer. He is proof that you can put your life on a new trajectory and Eureka Process is here to help you do just that in your business.
You’ll enjoy this Podcast episode with Allen—here are some takeaways:
- Too many people think more is more—the truth is often that less is more.
- In IT space, people assume tools will solve problems. If you don’t have your process in place first, adding a new tool will just create problems.
- You have to love what you do—and if you don’t love it anymore, Allen and his team can help you fix that.
Special thanks to our sponsor, Stride Services, who provides outsourced bookkeeping, accounting and CFO Advisory services to growing professional service firms around the United States.
We are fortunate to have Allen available to spend time with us on this edition of Stride 2 Freedom. If there is a speaker you’d like us to interview, and let us know. Stay well. Stay safe. Stay healthy.
Show Notes and Links From Episode:
Allen Edwards: LinkedIn
Eureka Process: Website/LinkedIn
Allen Edwards: allen@eurekaprocess.com
Episode Transcript:
