Articles by Stacy Eads

About Stacy Eads
Edmond native & UCO Alumna, Stacy Eads, is an award-winning “Most Admired CEO” who scaled her company as a Woman in Tech before becoming an International Scaling Up Business Coach. She now empowers other CEOs from $2M to $200M to embrace their leadership potential through quarterly strategic planning. Her talent is in high demand to CEO Coach, Train Teams, and Speak at Events in both the U.S.A. and Canada.
Stacy Eads’ career affiliations include 50 Women Making a Difference award, Circle of Excellence award, Torch Ethics award, Most Admired CEO award, Edmond Chamber & UCO Mentor, Better Business Bureau of Central Oklahoma Board of Directors, TEDx OKC Speaker Coach, and Ambassador Chairwoman for the Greater OKC Chamber of Commerce.
I became a Certified International Business Coach because I loved the idea of sharing the tools I find with other CEOs, as I do in this monthly Edmond Business column. Right now, I fly all over North America, helping firms of all sizes scale up their companies toward a strategic exit strategy.
Read MoreI became a Certified International Business Coach because I loved the idea of sharing the tools I find with other CEOs as I do in this monthly Edmond Business column. Right now, I fly all over North America helping firms of all sizes scale up their companies toward a strategic exit strategy.
Read MoreAs a business coach helping companies strategize their leadership roadmap every 90 days, I’ve been fielding a lot of questions about how new AI tools, like ChatGPT, can help or hurt their organizations in the short-term and long-term future. Here’s a list of AI-based or smart-technology resources you and your team may find helpful.
Read MoreIf you didn’t make time for significant business reading in 2022, it’s a great goal to set in 2023. Spring is a lovely time in Oklahoma to grab a good book and sit on your back porch swing, absorbing the rays and the knowledge.
Read MoreYou probably already know Key Performance Indicators (often shortened to “KPIs”) are metrics used to measure the success of an organization or the performance of an individual. The real question is: How do you know if you are measuring the right things?
Read MoreAs a manager of any business you can name, in any industry, there’s bound to be drama lurking somewhere around the water cooler chatter from time to time. When that drama crosses the threshold of your door, do you know how to respond?
Read MoreIntel wins wars, and some headlines suggest our businesses may, in fact, be going to war with the economy sooner than later. Verne Harnish, author of business books Rockefeller Habits, Scaling Up 2.0, and Scaling Up Compensation, focused on gaining client intel during his recent Scaling Up Summit I attended. The successful businessman’s preferred method of client intel is listed among the 10 Rockefeller Habits successful organizations deploy when growing their companies at a rapid pace. He suggests the CEO ask four key questions to their clients directly, not utilizing impersonal digital surveys.
Read MoreNews alert: Your culture is not a marketing task because it requires good communication, wordsmithing, and graphic design. It’s a leadership task. Each and every one of you plays a part in building your culture, reinforcing good behaviors, and celebrating wins that exude who your organization wants to be day in and day out.
Read MoreHow many worries can one mind hold? As the news media makes headline after headline for the last two years, many of us have taken on worries we’ve never had before. Some of us even learned a few new medical or economic phrases throughout this global rollercoaster ride we’ve been on. Supply chain management, pandemic safety controls, The Great Resignation, recession fears, inflation aftermath, work-from-home, new patterns, and so much more. The headlines and phrases all add up to feeling worn down. Fragile. Frayed around the edges.
Read MoreRecently, I spoke with a group of executives from our local Chamber of Commerce. Imagine a roomful of executives in their suits and ties, laptops out, ready to learn. I enter the room and simply ask, “How will you grow your company this year? By a show of hands, how many of you believe you will grow through “more sales,” of course?” The hands eagerly raise into the air. It just makes sense, right? If I want to grow my business, I need to sell more.
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