There is no one else doing what Jackie does at this level for entrepreneurs like us. SaaS Solution Developer, Southern California Client since 2012
Strategic Business Coaching · Stage II Entrepreneurs
When Growth Stalls It’s Rarely What You Think.
You’ve outgrown the strategy that got you here.
I’m Jackie Nagel. For 25+ years I’ve equipped Stage II entrepreneurs (roughly $250K to $4M in revenue) to work through the growth plateaus that stall most businesses. Most owners are too close to see their own situation clearly. I bring the objective perspective that changes everything. We work as peers, owner to owner, on the challenge you’re facing.
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The Messy Middle
It Happens More Than Once
Most owners hit the first wall somewhere around $250,000–$400,000 when whatever got the business off the ground (hustle, doing everything yourself, figuring it out as you go) stops being enough. The second usually shows up around $750,000 to $1 million when the business gets too complex to hold in your head the way you used to. The third tends to hit around $3–4 million when the business has to shift from running on your judgment and presence to running as a professionally managed organization.
Each time it rarely feels like part of a pattern. It feels like something’s wrong with the market, the team, or you. Usually it’s none of those things. The strategy that worked to get you here needs an upgrade to get you to the next level.
“I was too close to see my own situation objectively,” is how one client put it. An outside read clears the blind spot and often the fear around a hard call too.
The credibility comes from having lived the entrepreneurial life, not from a framework built for teams of 500. Clients call it walking the talk and it shapes how every conversation goes.
I keep thinking about your business between sessions. I don’t clock out when the conversation ends.
What clients notice first and remember longest.
Clients notice the listening first, the kind that hears what’s under the surface: what’s being hinted at and isn’t being said outright. Then come the questions that get to the core of what’s really going on.
I bring a 30,000-foot view that’s impossible to see from inside your own business.
Clients tend to describe the work as having a peer in their corner: encouraging, supportive, hardworking, and quick to make them feel genuinely heard and seen instead of processed. That feeling, they tell me, turns out to be the part that matters most.
Compassionate. Curious. Insightful. Thoughtful. Kind.
Her tough questions were a powerful tool in helping me solidify my growth strategies. The unbiased support was critical to help me reflect on how I wanted to shift and shape my business growth.
Diane Leonard
DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services
Client since 2013
Strategic perspective you can feel.
My clients don’t just renew. They stay, some for over a decade.
You always leave a session feeling better than when you came in.
Jackie doesn’t just cheer. She rolls up her sleeves and engages with the actual problem until something concrete comes out the other side.
Naya James
First Legal
Client since 2010
My business was growing quickly. I felt overwhelmed and feared it was going to fail. Jackie taught me to think strategically.
Mark Chapman
The I Do Society
Client since 2014
Her ability to distill the problems you’re actually facing (versus the ones you think you’re facing) is uncanny.
John Lanza
The Money Mammals
Client since 2016
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The first conversation is the one that changes things. Let’s find out if we’re the right fit.
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