Spencer Shaffer.

Spencer is especially well suited to CEOs and founders in energy, engineering, construction, infrastructure, utilities, industrial services, and project-based professional services. He adds the most value when a company is growing quickly but its people, systems, margins, or cash flow have not kept pace; when the founder or CEO needs to step out of day-to-day operations; when the leadership team needs clearer roles and greater accountability; or when the business is preparing for an acquisition, integration, recapitalization, succession, or exit.

Spencer has more than 26 years of experience as a CEO, entrepreneur, and senior executive. He acquired and scaled an energy-efficiency engineering company, founded two complementary software and analytics businesses, and led the three companies through a strategic sale to Bernhard in 2022. Following the transaction, Spencer served as Executive Vice President of Strategy, Integration, and Technology, where he worked on enterprise strategy, acquisition integration, organizational transformation, and the restructuring of a large engineering division.

Spencer's style is candid, practical, highly engaged, and accountability-driven. He asks the questions that CEOs and leadership teams are often avoiding, helps leaders distinguish the critical few priorities from the distracting many, and translates strategy into clear owners, leading indicators, deadlines, and operating rhythms. He combines direct feedback with a genuine commitment to developing people. His objective is not to make a CEO dependent on a coach. It is to help the CEO build a leadership team that can think, decide, and execute at a higher level.

Spencer regularly helps CEOs and leadership teams address: Profitable growth and operational scale; Backlog, pipeline, forecasting, and cash visibility; Gross-margin improvement and project accountability; Leadership-team structure and decision rights; CEO delegation and reduction of founder dependency; Executive performance and succession; Strategic planning and execution; Board readiness and executive communication; M&A, integration, and exit preparation; Culture, alignment, and organizational accountability.

Spencer helps CEOs create more predictable execution, stronger margins and cash visibility, clearer accountability, more capable leadership teams, reduced founder dependency, and increased enterprise value. His goal is to help the CEO build an organization that can execute consistently without requiring the CEO to personally drive every decision.