#226: How a Fractional COO Can Transform Your Business with Kirk Alexander, USAFA ‘89

<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“For the last 20 years, I’ve either consulted or been a COO in small to medium-sized businesses so I know the specific pain that these ‘tweener’ companies have…my military experience really set the foundation…I want to bring those military values to my COO consultancy. My company values are military values without being militaristic. The deep values are the things that really matter in the long run.”<br /></span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">- Kirk Alexander (USAFA ‘89)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kirk Alexander</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is an Air Force veteran with over 20 years of experience as an operations executive in the information technology, health tech, SaaS, medical practice, and medical device industry. In 2004, Kirk founded Methodize.us where he uses his expertise to provide fractional COO services that help small and medium-sized companies take their businesses to the next level. In this episode, Kirk shares</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">the methods, tools and resources he uses to help companies scale well into the future and why integrity-based values are his driving force.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why Kirk decided to become a fractional COO</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Kirk helped a surgeon’s practice increase its revenue by 300%  in just three years</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Lessons learned from the successful sale of a private dental practice</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why setting measurable goals is essential to growing a business</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Kirk’s training at the Air Force Academy set him up for success as an entrepreneur</span></li> </ul> <p><s