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Achieving Growth, Scale, and Exit: The Win, Keep, and Grow Strategy for Professional Services Firms

Greg Alexander / August 7, 2025

In the competitive landscape of Professional Services, boutique firms often face the challenge of growing, scaling, and eventually exiting successfully. Collective 54, the first community exclusively for founders of Professional Services firms, is dedicated to helping its members achieve these objectives. One effective strategy that firms can adopt is the Win, Keep, and Grow approach. This blog will explore how focusing on these three simple concepts can lead to profitable growth.

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Your To-Don’t List Is More Important Than Your To-Do List

Greg Alexander / August 5, 2025

Let’s be honest: your to-do list is lying to you.

It looks productive. It feels necessary. But in reality, it’s a guilt trip disguised as a plan — a mashup of legacy tasks, half-finished habits, and things you swore you delegated but somehow ended up doing again this week.

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Why Founders of Boutique Professional Service Firms Should Join Both Vistage and Collective 54

Greg Alexander / July 31, 2025

Before I started Collective 54, I had a front-row seat to the power of peer advisory groups. I’ve been in rooms where wisdom flowed from experienced operators, where confidential issues were unpacked, and where lifelong business friendships were formed.

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When Scaling Your Firm, Mindset Matters

Greg Alexander / July 25, 2025

Collective 54’s Greg Alexander frames the lifecycle of a professional services firm as a 15-year journey: 5 years of growth, 5 years of scale, and 5 years to exit. If I had followed that path, I’d be on my third company by now.

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5 ways to grow your profits in the second half of 2025

Greg Alexander / July 24, 2025

The second half of the year is where discipline matters most. You’ve already launched your 2025 plan, and undoubtedly, conditions have changed. Some of your original assumptions are holding, others are not. The target remains the same: profitable growth. But how you get there will depend on how quickly and decisively you adjust.

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Enjoying the Journey: Why Your Firm’s Success Is More Than Just Crossing Finish Lines

Greg Alexander / July 8, 2025

As professional services owners, we’re wired to solve problems and deliver results. But between daily firefighting and pursuing big goals, we can lose sight of something equally important: actually enjoying the work we’re doing and the relationships we’re building.

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Your Coach Says You Suck – Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing

Greg Alexander / July 4, 2025

Business is fast, competitive, and always evolving. Whether you’re managing a small team or running a multimillion-dollar firm, being great at your craft isn’t enough. You’ve got to lead, grow, adapt, and keep up with the speed of change in tech, talent, and expectations. And let’s be real—knowing when to pivot is just as important as knowing how.

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Leveraging Strategic Partnerships & Alliances As a Professional Services Firm

Greg Alexander / June 24, 2025

As you know, growth isn’t just about winning one more client or launching one more offering. Growth must be sustainable and intentional. For my firm, this means identifying and nurturing partnerships that expand our reach and increase our revenue.

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Why Founders of Boutique Professional Service Firms Should Join Both EO and Collective 54

Greg Alexander / June 20, 2025

Years ago, I was a young entrepreneur building a small firm from the ground up. Like many of you, I was hungry for growth, learning, and community. So I joined EO—the Entrepreneurs’ Organization—and it made a real difference in my life. The people I met, the forums I joined, and the events I attended helped me grow personally and professionally.

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Screwing Up & What you Learn From It

Greg Alexander / May 29, 2025

Growth. It’s the one constant we’re all chasing. More revenue. More Income. Higher valuation. Etc, etc,etc.
However, it doesn’t always go according to plan.
2023 saw a new high for my company as we increased revenues and income by almost 50% over the previous year. It was an exciting time that I – in my infinite wisdom – thought would go on. Because of course it would. Right?

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Achieving Growth, Scale, and Exit: The Win, Keep, and Grow Strategy for Professional Services Firms

Your To-Don’t List Is More Important Than Your To-Do List

Why Founders of Boutique Professional Service Firms Should Join Both Vistage and Collective 54

When Scaling Your Firm, Mindset Matters

5 ways to grow your profits in the second half of 2025

Enjoying the Journey: Why Your Firm’s Success Is More Than Just Crossing Finish Lines

Your Coach Says You Suck – Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing

Leveraging Strategic Partnerships & Alliances As a Professional Services Firm

Why Founders of Boutique Professional Service Firms Should Join Both EO and Collective 54

Screwing Up & What you Learn From It

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