Recruiting & Talent Acquisition for Small Businesses

Alex Dzierbicki from Cultivate Advisors has turned my life around! He makes it easy to take big business steps, with minimal effort and measurable, fast results! Running my business has never been so efficient! Thank you, Alex D!

As a small business owner, it can be challenging to find the time to work “on” the business, rather than simply “in” the business. Fortunately, we had the pleasure of working with Colin Bowman of Cultivate Advisors. In our time together, Colin guided us through goal setting (financial and otherwise), success tracking, sales processes, staff training and more. When needed, he brought in colleagues with experience in our industry who offered additional expertise and insight. Colin was always extremely responsive, professional, honest and encouraging. As a result of our work with Cultivate Advisors, our business has new systems, techniques and mindsets in place that will enable our continued growth.

I've worked with Eric Fenton at Cultivate Advisors for roughly 7 months, and it's been a great support for me as the CEO. I hired Cultivate during a really challenging growth moment where demand for my consulting firm's services increased over 800% year over year, but I didn't have the money to hire a senior level operator in a full time capacity--though I needed someone I didn't have to train and who could give me 5-10 hours of time each month for executive projects. My team is lean and we are a growth stage start up, so having an extra pair of hands that are there for ME--but who is also agile enough to work with my team on various projects that I've entrusted to him which are not the responsibility of the staff I've hired--has been great. I'll add that the range of topics we've worked together on has been impressive. I've tapped Eric to assist with hiring strategies and finalizing the recruitment of our most senior level consultant, working with our accounting partners to get our books in order, and writing up a business plan to get us ready for potential investment capital. If all Cultivate Advisors are this good at being generalist-specialists, then you should definitely go ahead and work with this company.

I've worked with Drew and then Elisa since 2018. They've saved me from making mistakes that would have cost me tens of thousands of dollars and years to overcome. They taught me how to manage my money - something I thought  "I'm sure I'll be able to figure out on my own." But when I actually learned I was blown away at how much I didn't know. There are only so many business books I can read and friends I can ask for advice. I need feedback from people who have not only been there themselves, but also work with many other clients in which they can pull experience from.  Drew and Elisa are a tremendous help with accountability, keeping my priorities straight, and making this whole thing fun - among many, many other things. I would not have been able to do what I've done without them and I'm a super big fan!!

There are a lot of "business consultants" that are willing to take your money, but don't help your business one bit. I was cautious, since I've been burned before, however this time was different. I am the president of a technology consulting company and I joined Cultivate Advisors because I needed to find a "partner" to help me find answers to some difficult questions I was facing while growing my business. I've been working with my advisor, Morgan, for almost three years and I now consider her a part of my team and a friend. Morgan's assistance has been invaluable and has helped me to build a sales team and process that needed some direction. With Morgan, I've been able to re-focus on growth, in order to propel the bottom line. Cultivate also has many other resources, including the ability to network with of small businesses, nationwide. Within that network, I've been able to work with some of the other small businesses in Cultivate, that need our services. I highly recommend Morgan Cianai and Cultivate, they both are the real deal.