Expert Small Business Advisory Consultants 2025

I'm a small business advisor and the founder of SmallBizWorks, a virtual business advisory based in Missouri. I spent 15 years as co-owner of Slackers, a multimedia retail chain I helped grow from 1 location to 11 across Missouri and Illinois, before transitioning to education and full-time advisory work. I'm certified in Google Search, Analytics and HubSpot Email Marketing Since 2020, I've worked one-on-one with entrepreneurs across industries as a small business advisor, helping them launch, plan, and finance new ventures and acquisitions. I've written business plans and financing applications that have helped clients secure funding from $5,000 to $2 million through SBA programs, community banks, and private investors. My focus is the part of small business most advisors gloss over: the intersection of a credible business plan and a bankable financing strategy. According to the Federal Reserve Small Business Credit Survey, only 42% of applicants received the full funding they sought, 36% received some, and 22% received nothing. The quality of the business plan is one of the few variables the applicant can control. That's the space I work in. I also hold an MBA from Saint Louis University and have taught business courses at the college level since 2010, currently as an adjunct instructor at Central Methodist University since 2014. I'm available to comment on: small business financing, SBA loan strategy, business acquisition, entrepreneurship trends, business plan development, marketing, and startup planning.

Aligning your business mission and vision with your ideal customer's mission and vision leads to success for your business. Put my 30 years as a customer-focused, constraints management consultant and 16 years as a mentor and advisor for clean technology startups to work for you,

Stepan Kazaryan is a Business Management Consultant focused on digital presence, professional evaluation, and how public information shapes decision-making in modern business environments. His work centers on helping organizations and professionals understand how they are perceived before direct interaction occurs. In search-driven systems, evaluation often happens silently and quickly. Stepan advises clients on building structured digital foundations that support credibility over time. His approach emphasizes clarity, consistency, and responsible positioning rather than short-term visibility tactics. He works with executives, founders, and professional service providers who recognize that digital footprints influence trust, partnerships, and opportunity flow. By aligning websites, public profiles, and third-party references, Stepan helps create stable professional narratives that reduce uncertainty during evaluation. Rather than focusing on reactive measures, his advisory framework prioritizes preparation. This includes analyzing how search results present a name, how information connects across platforms, and how inconsistencies affect perception. The goal is to strengthen long-term positioning in a way that feels natural and sustainable. Stepan frequently writes and speaks about digital identity, credibility signals, and the structural factors that influence professional trust in online environments. His perspective reflects a broader shift in how professionals are assessed in the age of search and public information accessibility. Through disciplined strategy and steady execution, Stepan Kazaryan helps clients maintain clarity in environments where perception often forms before conversation begins.

ExecCap Advisors provides expert advisory services combining strategic capital advocacy and real-world operating experience. We guide executives through every step of Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA)—defining acquisition strategy, sourcing opportunities, securing capital partners, structuring deals, conducting due diligence, closing transactions, and scaling the business post-acquisition.

Julian Frincu is a serial entrepreneur, business consultant and founder of Skills 2 Grow. After moving to the UK in 2014 with very little money and limited English, he went on to build and operate four successful businesses across consultancy, digital marketing, local media and mobile wellness services. Julian has extensive first-hand experience in business growth, marketing and advertising. He has developed Mobile Massage Oxfordshire from a one-person operation into a network of 19 therapists working across four counties. He also manages major UK Facebook community pages reaching approximately 12 million UK views each month. Through Skills 2 Grow, Julian supports small businesses and start-ups with marketing, pricing, websites, customer service, leadership, operations, reputation management and sustainable growth. He holds a Level 8 qualification in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice and is a Fellow of the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs. Julian provides practical, experience-led commentary on entrepreneurship, small-business growth, digital marketing, social media, leadership, customer experience and the realities of building a business from the ground up.

Mark Newsome is the owner of You Can Market Online Now and a marketing consultant focused on helping small businesses improve revenue through more effective use of their existing resources. His work centers on practical marketing strategies that prioritize customer retention, repeat business, and more efficient conversion rather than increased advertising spend. With experience working with small business owners and service providers, Newsome has developed a clear understanding of the constraints these organizations face, including limited budgets and time. He focuses on identifying gaps in current marketing efforts and implementing structured approaches to improve performance using channels and assets already in place. His approach emphasizes fundamentals such as messaging, offer structure, follow-up processes, and customer relationship management. By refining these areas, he helps businesses generate more consistent results without relying on constant acquisition of new customers. Newsome is a credible source for commentary on small business marketing, customer retention strategies, revenue optimization, and practical approaches to improving marketing performance. He provides clear, experience-based insights grounded in real-world application and measurable outcomes.

I work with founders doing $1M–$25M in revenue who have built income from their business but never built a transferable asset. Most of these businesses won't sell at the number the owner has been counting on, and the reasons are usually structural: the business depends on the owner, the entity isn't built for a clean exit, and the tax exposure was never modeled against an actual sale. By the time someone calls a banker, the decisions that determine the outcome were made years earlier. At Big Life Financial, a fractional family office for founder-led businesses, and at Fielding Global a boutique management consultant firm, we help with exit planning, tax strategy, investment management, asset protection and business advisory as one integrated system rather than separate vendors solving separate pieces. I speak and write on the difference between running a business and investing in one, and on what it takes to create the generational wealth so many desire.

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Dani Landers is a business consultant, operations strategist, and founder of Willowcross Consulting LLC, where she helps early-stage founders and service-based businesses build strong operational foundations, improve sales execution, and scale sustainably. Her work sits at the intersection of systems, mindset, and customer-centered strategy, helping leaders move from reactive decision-making to intentional growth. Through Willowcross Consulting, Dani designs and delivers structured programs, advisory engagements, and workshops focused on helping founders think like C-Suite executives, build durable systems, and lead with clarity. She is known for blending strategic rigor with practical execution, offering grounded guidance that meets leaders where they are while helping them build businesses that last. With more than a decade of experience across business operations, sales strategy, marketing, and leadership, Dani brings a practitioner’s lens to every engagement. She specializes in operational clarity, sales execution frameworks, customer decision-making psychology, and building repeatable systems that support both revenue and resilience. Her consulting work often focuses on helping founders overcome status quo bias, strengthen customer conversations, and align marketing and sales with how buyers actually make decisions. In addition to her consulting practice, Dani serves as Director of Operations and Marketing a high-producing real estate teams in southeastern North Carolina. In that role, she oversees sales operations, agent onboarding, marketing strategy, transaction systems, and performance metrics for a high-volume organization that has collectively served thousands of clients. This hands-on leadership experience gives her real-world insight into sales execution, team performance, and operational scale. Dani is also a licensed real estate professional, which further informs her expertise in consumer behavior, negotiation, trust-based selling, and high-stakes decision-making. Her background in real estate provides a practical understanding of how emotion, timing, and clarity influence buyer behavior, lessons she regularly translates into frameworks for founders and business leaders across industries.

Originally from London, England, now US-based, I began my entrepreneurial journey in 2005, expanding my initial company to a team of fifty and providing services to clients nationwide. Currently, I serve as an Accredited Small Business Consultant assisting small businesses and facilitating mergers & acquisitions in collaboration with the Decain Group. As an entrepreneur, I believe in both learning and sharing experiences; I author a daily small business blog offering insights to aid fellow entrepreneurs and small business owners. I am also committed to giving back to the community. I actively participate in various non-profit organizations and also serve as the Co-Chair of the IFDF Public Relations Committee.

Seth Broman is the founder of SMBQuotes, a small-business financing resource, and a 20-year veteran of SMB lending who has overseen the deployment of more than $5 billion in capital to small businesses. Formerly SVP of Business Development at Kapitus and CEO of Yardline, he speaks on SBA loan access, the pros and cons of merchant cash advances and alternative financing, and how owners should evaluate lenders beyond approval speed.

I am a dedicated professional committed to providing innovative solutions and high quality professional advisory services tailored to each of my client’s needs. With over 25 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, setting up businesses, as well as helping them wind down, I have helped companies in many different industries, including finance, insurance, real estate, legal, construction, non-profit, healthcare, fitness, and retail to name a few. My broad range of expertise includes business development, marketing, public relations, corporate facilities, budgeting, creating policies and procedures, and workflow analysis. I have worked first hand on both sides of a merger, helping to acquire businesses as well as assisting in the acquisition of company.

Principal Advisor | Clarity for Founders & Execs at Growth Inflection Points | Global Teams • Strategic Leverage • High-Stakes Decisions I work with founders and executive teams when growth, complexity, or straight-up pressure has outpaced clarity. That's the moment when effort alone stops cutting it—the real bottleneck is decision quality, alignment, and execution that doesn't erode what made the company special. As a Principal Advisor, I step in to help leaders: Cut to the decision that actually matters — stripping away the noise so you see the leverage point clearly. Align structure, talent, incentives, and systems around it — including global teams when it amplifies strategy (not when it's just a cost play). Build execution that scales — without torching culture, margins, or momentum. My background: I've built and led global teams across India and the Philippines, designing outsourcing setups that serve long-term strategy instead of becoming operational drag. I've watched "cost savings" quietly kill velocity when leadership lost sight of priorities—lessons I bring to every engagement. Outsourcing isn't the goal. Strategic leverage is. The leaders (and media folks) I connect with aren't after generic advice or another vendor. They want unflinching judgment, ruthless alignment, and disciplined execution under real pressure—delivered with candor and zero fluff. If your story involves scaling pains, high-stakes decisions, global team dynamics, or turning complexity into momentum, I'm your source. Happy to provide quotes, insights, or go deeper on: - Decision-making at inflection points - Aligning incentives and structure for sustainable growth - Making global/outsourced teams a strategic asset (not a liability) - Preserving culture and margins while scaling fast Reach out anytime—let's get your piece stronger.

I am the founder and main marketing advisor at Luroc Consulting. Backed by extensive corporate experience, I managed strategic partnership initiatives at Oracle and led international marketing campaigns for Microsoft and IBM. In the hospitality sector, I managed premium customer relations for Etihad Airways and served as Marketing Director leading four distinct brands for the Dish Dash Group.

I'm a specialist commercial finance broker with 16 years of experience helping Australian business owners access commercial property finance. As founder of Smart Business Plans, I've overseen $550 million in commercial finance across more than 3,300 clients, with a 92% approval rate working across a panel of 60+ specialist lenders. My expertise sits at the intersection of commercial property, business finance, and wealth strategy — particularly for small to medium business owners looking to buy their own premises, invest through their SMSF, or fund development projects. I work exclusively in the commercial space, which means I specialise where the major banks often can't or won't go. I'm also the author of The Premise Effect (2026), which makes the case for why Australian business owners are leaving millions on the table by renting rather than owning their business premises. I'm available to comment on: commercial property finance, SMSF borrowing, business lending, commercial mortgage rates, Australian property market trends, and small business wealth building.

I am a seasoned Brand and Business Consultant with over 15 years of experience in the industry. My expertise spans a wide range of areas, including owning and operating a successful bootstrap business and brand consulting firm in Noida, India. In addition to my business, I also take on individual projects, focusing particularly on startups and businesses looking to expand their operations. Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of working with esteemed clients such as Softbank in Japan, Financial Artisan (Japan), Philips India, Hager India, Havells India, Hager India, QRG Healthcare, REO, Crabtree, Llyod, Gulf Ferro Alloys Company (SABAYEK) in Dubai, AJM Kooheji Group (Dubai), Dar Wa Emaar (Dubai), Carat Redefining Media, Discovery Channel Magazine, Bhilwara Group, India Today Group, Metropolis, Semco India, Reader Digest, Franciscan, Provana, FarmingV2, Market3, Sarvodaya Holiday, Kehar Travels, and many more. In my diverse portfolio, I have undertaken a multitude of research assignments across various industries and companies. My responsibilities have included analyzing complex business requirements, providing advisory solutions in the form of detailed research reports. This has encompassed tasks such as company profiling, competitor analysis, strategy development, industry assessment, market landscaping, stakeholder analysis, and regulatory requirements analysis. I have also been deeply involved in overseeing strategic business initiatives, executing operational and marketing plans, developing and implementing SOPs, conducting SWOT/PEST analyses, and monitoring sector trends. Moreover, my experience extends to quality assurance and management communication. I have been responsible for conducting quality checks on work, preparing management communications, maintaining daily status trackers, generating service level reports (SLA), creating standard operating plans (SOPs), developing process maps, outlining project training plans, and spearheading business development initiatives. With my wealth of experience, honed skills, and extensive knowledge, I am confident in my ability to significantly contribute to your company's success.

We provide financing solutions from $25,000 to $10,000,000+ for small businesses and middle market companies. As passionate entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, it's our mission to share our experiences and expertise with small and medium sized businesses looking for help and advice in securing financing for their business. While i'm not in the office I enjoy spending most of my time with family and close friends. Whether it be on the beach surfing, or in the mountains skiing, my favorite thing to do is to just be outdoors.

Sharifah Hardie is an entrepreneur, business consultant, media personality, author, technology innovator, and founder of AskSharifah.com and The People’s Chamber of Commerce. Her work spans entrepreneurship, business development, artificial intelligence, media, marketing, public relations, fundraising, sponsorship development, grants, and access to capital. Through Ask Sharifah and The People’s Chamber, Sharifah helps entrepreneurs and business owners build stronger businesses, increase visibility, access resources, pursue funding, create strategic relationships, and identify opportunities for growth. A digital entrepreneur since the early days of the commercial Internet, Sharifah built her first website in the 1990s. After surviving more than eight corporate layoffs, she became an entrepreneur and built a career spanning technology, business consulting, marketing, public relations, media, fundraising, and business development. Sharifah entered digital media in 2009 with the launch of her first podcast. Her media career has since included radio, podcasts, videocasts, television, live events, and professionally produced interview programming. She is the creator and host of In The Studio with Sharifah Hardie, featuring entrepreneurs, executives, professionals, creators, and business leaders. Through AskSharifah.com, she provides business strategy, AI solutions, marketing, branding, PR, websites, grant research and writing, sponsorship development, fundraising, and business growth services. As founder and President of The People’s Chamber of Commerce, Sharifah leads an organization connecting entrepreneurs and business owners with resources, relationships, education, visibility, funding opportunities, and tools for growth. Sharifah has also pursued public service through campaigns for elected office in California, including her announced candidacy for Governor of California in the 2026 election. Her longstanding motto is: “Do not face the unknown alone. Ask Sharifah.”

Alan Melton is an Inc. 500 founder and business coach who has built, scaled, or acquired 18 companies. His early life was marked by adversity — kicked out at 15, he was taken in by two families who introduced him to faith and personal development. He later built a transportation company trusted by the Ritz-Carlton, Marriott at Sawgrass, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and Merrill Lynch, earning a place on the Inc. 500 and winning the Florida Governor’s Sterling Award. Today, Alan leads Small Business Coach Associates and has coached more than 1,100 business owners.