Certified EOS Implementer® · 50+ Leadership Teams Served · Upper Midwest

The complete operating system that makes your business run without you in every room

I'm a Certified EOS Implementer. Over 24 months, I install the six-component operating system used by 26,000+ companies worldwide, teaching your leadership team the tools, leading the hard conversations, and holding everyone accountable until the system runs without me.

By The Numbers

50+

Leadership teams served across the Upper Midwest

6

Years as a Certified EOS Implementer

24

Months. The standard EOS implementation arc

Is This You?

The pattern I see, over and over, sitting across from founders like you.

If most of these sound familiar, we should talk.

You're the bottleneck in every decision.

Every meaningful decision routes through your desk. Your team knows the answer half the time; they just won't move without you. You spend your day answering questions that shouldn't require you to answer them, and you leave every night wondering why nothing gets done unless you personally push it.

You've read Traction. It didn't stick.

You know EOS is the right system. You bought the book. You held a couple of Level 10 meetings. Ninety days in, the meetings drifted into status updates. The scorecard fell off. The accountability chart never got built. About 1 in 7 companies pulls off self-implementation. The other 6, like you, got the concepts and lost the discipline. That's not a book problem. That's a room problem. You can't be the boss in the room and the impartial third party at the same time.

You keep losing people you shouldn't be losing.

Good people quit and you can't figure out why. Or worse, you're keeping people who aren't right for the seat because you don't have the language or the framework to have the conversation. Your leadership team is a rotating cast, and every departure costs you three months of momentum and a piece of what's left of your energy.

Your business runs on you, and you're exhausted.

You built the company with your hands. Your ability to outwork every person in the room is what got you to $5M, $10M, $15M. But at some point, that same ability became the ceiling. You haven't taken a real vacation in years. You can't imagine a week away without checking in twice a day. The revenue is up, and somehow the freedom is down.

You've tried coaches, courses, and consultants. Nothing lasted.

You've hired the business coach with the nice suit and the binder of recommendations. You've done the mastermind. You've watched the YouTube videos. Each one gave you a piece of it. None gave you a system your team actually runs. You're tired of paying for insight. You want an operating system that outlives the engagement.

You're profitable. But you can't sustain it.

Some months are great. Others are famines. You set a monthly revenue goal and both you and your team know it could go either way. That unpredictability is why you can't hire the leader who would replace you. You're not confident enough in cash flow to add the salary. And so it stays on you. Until it doesn't.

Here's what changes when the system is running.

Within 90 days, owners I work with tell me they start sleeping better. Within six months, their team is solving problems without them. Their meetings actually produce outcomes. Their numbers tell them the truth weekly instead of quarterly. Within a year, they're taking a real vacation, and the business runs while they're gone. Within two years, they're either buying out their partners, opening a second location, or preparing to sell for a multiple that wouldn't have been possible before.

This is not theoretical. This is the specific arc I've watched happen fifty-plus times.

How the work actually works.

EOS is a complete operating system, implemented in over 26,000 companies worldwide. It's not a coaching program. It's not a set of tips. It's a system with six components: Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process, and Traction. It gets installed into your business over a 24-month arc of full-day sessions with your leadership team.

I'm in the room personally for every session. Teaching the tools. Leading the hard conversations. Holding your team accountable, including you. I don't hand out binders and disappear. I don't send an associate. When the engagement ends, your team runs the whole system without me.

The 24-month arc, session by session.

Focus Day

The first full day. We install the six core tools of EOS: Accountability Chart, Rocks, Meeting Pulse, Scorecard, and the beginnings of your Vision. Your leadership team walks out with clarity on who owns what.

Vision Building Day 1

Your leadership team gets on the same page about who you are, what you do, where you're going, and how you'll get there. The Vision/Traction Organizer, your entire plan on two pages, gets built here.

Vision Building Day 2

The plan gets pressure-tested. Priorities for the year get locked. Rocks (90-day priorities) for the quarter get set. Everyone leaves knowing what they're accountable for.

Quarterly Sessions

Every 90 days, a full-day session to review the quarter, reset Rocks, solve issues that need leadership-team-level attention, and re-anchor the vision.

Annual Sessions

Once a year, two consecutive full days to reset the annual plan, reset the three-year picture, and go deep on the biggest issues holding the company back.

Total: 10 to 14 full-day sessions across 24 months. I'm in the room for every one. We'll discuss what the investment looks like on our first call.

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Aaron Purkeypile

About Aaron

A recovering CPA who found what he was chasing.

I went to Deloitte right out of college as a Big Four accountant. After one busy season I wanted to gouge my eyes out. Half my start class quit within a year. I walked into a managing partner's office and told him we needed better vision, values, and culture. He smiled. Thanked me. And did absolutely nothing.

So I left. Spent the next several years working in different roles across different industries: finance, ministry, education, coaching. Every role gave me a piece of it. None gave me the whole picture.

Not until I joined the leadership team of a small business that was struggling and I discovered EOS. That's when every experience I'd ever had clicked into one thing. Helping business owners build companies that actually work without them in it every single day. Today I live in Minneapolis and serve leadership teams across the Upper Midwest.

Aaron Purkeypile

A Message From Aaron

I've sat across from more than fifty founders at this point. Almost all of them told me some version of the same thing on that first call: 'I built this company, and now it's running me instead of the other way around.'

If that's you, I get it. And I want you to know two things before you book the call.

One: I don't work with everyone. If you're not ready to bring your leadership team to the table and do the actual work of installing a system, this won't take. I'd rather tell you that on our first conversation than six months into a bad engagement.

Two: If you are ready, this is not complicated. It's rigorous, and it's honest, and it takes 24 months. But the framework works. I've watched it work fifty times. There's nothing magic here. It's just a real operating system, run by a leadership team that's serious about installing it, held accountable by someone who's done this a lot.

If that sounds like the conversation you want to have, book a call. If not, that's okay too.

Aaron Purkeypile

Certified EOS Implementer

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