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Brad Farris
Executive leadership coach and Principal at Anchor Advisors in Chicago, coaching owners and CEOs of creative and professional services firms.
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Oct 1, 2026
Leading in the Fog (using Agility) w/ Brad Farris
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2:09Yuval YeretHOST
What does that mean? First of all, I'm curious what size of firm would that typically represent? What's the sort of operation that we're talking about? What's going on in the organization?
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2:22Brad FarrisGUEST
I mean, I'm working with multimillion dollar firms, so maybe two to 20 or 50 million, depending on the industry.
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2:31Brad FarrisGUEST
And for all of them, I mean, and most of them are service firms, professional service firms, a lot of creative firms for all of them.
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2:49Brad FarrisGUEST
Obviously, AI has overturned a lot of the creative services firms, but even consulting, recruiting, law, all of those types of professional services firms are also massively impacted by AI.
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3:03Brad FarrisGUEST
Additionally, there are this shifting expectations in a professional services firm.
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Why Your Team Isn't the Problem (And What Actually Is) | Executive Coach Brad Farris (Episode 163)
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Gabe ArnoldHOST
And then when you moved on from that, what type of things were you doing? Is that when you started coaching leaders and doing executive coaching? So
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3:10Brad FarrisGUEST
from 2001 to 2019, it was really a management consulting business where we were coming alongside the business owner.
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3:22Brad FarrisGUEST
So like I said, similar, where I was helping them to install a different operating system to get away from, you know, a lot of entrepreneurial companies have a very flexible culture where we're relying on people to cover for each other.
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3:38Brad FarrisGUEST
We don't have, you know, a finance person and a marketing person and a salesperson.
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Gabe ArnoldHOST
maybe I do need to look at some coaching or like, how do you identify, you know, the gaps and challenges that you can come in and help with?