Host Jeremy C. Park talks with Meg Crosby and Howard Cleveland, Co-Founders of PeopleCap, Strategic Advisors, and Co-Authors of “Running the Gauntlet: Proven Strategies for High-Growth Leaders,” who both highlight their company and new book being released April 29, 2025, as an essential guide for CEOs, founders, and leadership teams navigating the challenges of scaling a high-growth company. PeopleCap Advisors is a consulting practice specializing in empowering leaders and elevating organizations.
During the interview, Meg and Howard share how their decades of experience in advising private equity-backed companies and high-growth organizations, led them to write the book based on the success of their Growth Gauntlet Framework, a proven roadmap that aligns six critical imperatives – Focus, Culture, Leadership, Talent, Structure, and Communication – across four distinct growth stages. The framework helps leaders understand their organization’s needs and prepare for the next stage.
They discuss the book’s content and share some examples of the different growth stages and how the CEOs role evolves at each stage. Meg and Howard touch on the importance of culture in different stages of growth and how it can be maintained as a company expands. Meg discusses the importance of having the right people, processes, and performance management in place, sharing a case study of a company that faced significant financial losses due to poor leadership and high turnover rates. They discuss the importance of alignment among all stakeholders in a company, including the CEO, board, executive team, and investors. Meg mentions that their book provides questions for CEOs to ask their leadership teams and for boards to ask CEOs, helping to ensure clarity and facilitate important conversations. The authors emphasize that writing the book was a collaborative effort, reinforcing the idea that growing a company requires teamwork and diverse skill sets. The book, “Running the Gauntlet: Proven Strategies for High Growth Leaders,” will be released on April 29, 2025, and will be available at major retailers with a book signing event set for April 30, 2025 at Novel Memphis.
Visit https://www.peoplecap.com to learn more about PeopleCap and the new book, “Running the Gauntlet: Proven Strategies for High-Growth Leaders.”
