Sep 1, 2026 · 26 min · 8 segments
Paul Detlefs has been an EOS® Implementer for fifteen years, which puts him eleventh in tenure across the whole community. By any measure he knew the…
Paul DetlefsGuestChris BeerHostWelcome back to another episode of the Practice Builder podcast, where we look at the three prongs of what it takes to build a modern EOS implementer practice.
And as a newer implementer, I have the pleasure of speaking with a lot of people who have walked this road before me who are generous enough to share tribal knowledge with the entire community that should apply whether you've been in this for 15 months or 15 years and can guarantee that you'll walk away from this episode with actionable items that you can take related to attracting, converting, and retaining right fit clients to delivering excellent service delivery, and also maybe even figuring out some version of the EOS life for yourself.
He is an expert EOS implementer who splits his time between Chicago and Louisville.
And he just said something quite remarkable to me, which is that it took him about 40 years to figure out what he was meant to do.
And then in the, you know, in the spirit of this being something that we're all building together and at various stages, tell me about where your head is at with, again, building your career almost 50 years in.
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Welcome back to another episode of the Practice Builder podcast, where we look at the three prongs of what it takes to build a modern EOS implementer practice.
And as a newer implementer, I have the pleasure of speaking with a lot of people who have walked this road before me who are generous enough to share tribal knowledge with the entire community that should apply whether you've been in this for 15 months or 15 years and can guarantee that you'll walk away from this episode with actionable items that you can take related to attracting, converting, and retaining right fit clients to delivering excellent service delivery, and also maybe even figuring out some version of the EOS life for yourself.
He is an expert EOS implementer who splits his time between Chicago and Louisville.
And he just said something quite remarkable to me, which is that it took him about 40 years to figure out what he was meant to do.
And then in the, you know, in the spirit of this being something that we're all building together and at various stages, tell me about where your head is at with, again, building your career almost 50 years in.
