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Empower. Execute. Endure.

I help leadership teams take ownership, execute with discipline, and build businesses that can’t be easily copied or crushed.

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In 45 Days

Reach Execution
Momentum™

In 12 months

Systematize and Activate
Growth Drivers

In 3 years

Build Margin-Boosting
Unique Activities™

Why most leaders get stuck

  • Growth has stalled. You’re working harder than ever, but progress feels out of reach.
  • Profits are shrinking. Margins keep tightening — it’s starting to feel like you’re racing to the bottom.
  • Competitors are pulling ahead. You see opportunities slip by that should have been yours.
  • Your business feels fragile. One lost client or market shift could throw everything off balance.
  • You can’t step away. The business depends too much on you — your drive, your decisions, your presence.
  • You’ve built a busy job, not a business that runs without you.
  • You’re burning out. The pressure, the long hours, the constant firefighting — it’s taking a toll.
  • Deep down, you worry: “What if this thing I’ve built isn’t special… or even sellable?”

What changes when Summit OS® is implemented

  • You rediscover momentum. The business starts moving forward again — with energy, clarity, and purpose.

  • Your team steps up. They take ownership, make decisions, and move the company forward without constant prodding.

  • Accountability becomes natural. Everyone knows what success looks like each week — and how to deliver it.

  • You start winning again. Measurable progress in 45 days, compounding quarter after quarter.

  • You regain your freedom. Step away — for a day, a week, or more — and know the business will keep thriving.

  • You feel proud again. Confident that what you’ve built is strong, valuable, and capable of outlasting you.

The results

Freedom

After we implement the system, you don’t have to live plugged into the business 24/7. You get the freedom to step away and still know that your company is moving forward. That means less burnout, more time for what matters to you, and the peace of mind that your business works even when you don’t.

Control

With clear processes and accountability built in, you take back control of your business instead of letting chaos or reactive decisions dictate its direction. Every team member knows what success looks like, what their role is, and how they contribute — which turns guesswork into measurable progress. You don’t just hope things will get done — you know they will.

Growth

Beyond quick wins, you’re building momentum that compounds. The systems we put in place give your business the structure to scale—bringing in opportunities consistently, delivering smoothly, and expanding capacity without breaking under pressure. What you create isn’t tied solely to you — it becomes a growth engine that increases revenue, output, and impact year after year.

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What my clients say

18 months of incorporating Summit OS into our business has helped us achieve tremendous success. It’s pushed us for revenue targets. It’s helped us with metrics, meetings [and with] How can I, as a leader, support my team to  take us to the next level. [Summit OS] brought structure, focus, clarity, the ‘What’, the ‘Why’, and how I can deliver a message and create excitement in my company. I feel amazing, excited, grateful for what Steve’s provided to the company. I know with Summit’s guidance, I’m able to make better decisions and create ultimate happiness in my life.
-Tejash Patel
CEO of TAYS, Inc.
We’re bringing on new clients that require customization and a lot of handholding, and without being efficient and organized, without having clear direction of knowing when we say ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ to a client, we wouldn’t be able to do all of this. Steve was a really important aspect of me making a decision to take the biggest leap of faith in m life-to do a management buyout from a large holding company land go out on my own.m
-Nick Beavers
CEO, Reichle Media Cybernetics
I’ve been working with Steve for three years and his coaching has helped multiple of my companies excel to multiple seven figures, and even eight figures. Steve has an intimate knowledge of EOS, Scaling Up, and [has developed] his own unique methodologies working as a business entrepreneur and investment banker. He provides clarity, systems, HR strategies, and [shows you] how to scale and grow your business to the next level.
-Vikram Raya
Founder and CEO, Limitless MD
We have been working with Steve to implement the Pinnacle process, which involves understanding our business, how we execute, and then building a specific plan to improve our execution. Not only have we done a better job communicating what our business is about and how we execute on that, but we transformed our interactions as a leadership team. Literally, every dimension of our business has been impacted by our ability to more clearly articulate where we’re going.
-Rob Hirschfeld
Founder and CEO, RackN
I’ve been working with Steve Preda for almost five years. He’s helped us put in place structures and he’s helped to motivate the team, to stay disciplined and focused and to accomplish everything that we said that we’re going to accomplish. Steve has had a major influence on me and my leadership, and the valuation of the business has quadrupled over the period of time he’s worked with us. in the last year alone, Clear Impact achieved 26% monthly recurring revenue growth, far exceeding our expectations. This year, we’re going to at least double that.
-Adam Luecking
Founder and CEO, Clear Impact
I needed a strong foundation with goal setting, and holding people accountable. My staff love setting their goals, they feel like they’re contributing, and it gets all of us aligned for the purpose of growing the practice, which I couldn’t have done by myself. Almost anybody who thinks that they don’t have a strong foundation for growth don’t have playbooks in place. If you feel like you’re constantly re-explaining things hire Steve in order to put systems in place so that you can just continue to grow and scale without having to worry about it.
-Dr. Nima Shemirani
CEO, Eos Rejuvenation
Summit OS® gave us a practical framework, guidebook, and tools to get the business on its feet, in the right direction, headed towards growth. It anchored us on our purpose, and brought us together as a team. Summit OS helped focusing on our differentiators and winning multimillion dollar contracts. Steve is not just a process facilitator; his knowledge of business was very helpful to us. Any company that’s at an inflection point would benefit from Summit OS.
-Mike Barthlow
President and CEO, BT Federal
I used to wear every hat, I used to do every job, I had to work insane hours, do everything, didn’t get it all done, didn’t do it all well. My dream has been, I’d like to be out in the woods, in the fields of America for the whole month of October. I did that, and I got zero calls from my office. Everything ran well. Everybody did what needed to be done. Trust the process, trust Steve, and I don’t care how knowledgeable or confident you are, you can count on Steve to bring to the table a sincere, genuine focus on your best interest.
-Harlan Reichle
CEO and Founder, Reichle Klein Group
We’ve worked with Steve for over seven years, bringing him in every quarter to help with our strategic planning, goals, and keeping us on track. Before that, our sales were flat, execution wasn’t there, and we had too much of a shotgun approach. Steve’s very organized, keeps your feet to the fire, and follows up fast — after every meeting, we’d get summaries within hours. It’s made a huge difference in our company culture — more transparency, less politics, and everyone working together. If you want to grow your business, this is the perfect way to do it.
-Bob Collins
President, Gerstel Inc.

Frequently Asked Questions

Each of those systems has shaped how I think about business growth — and I’ve used all three extensively.

But Summit OS® goes further. It combines the structure of EOS®, the strategic depth of Scaling Up®, and the leadership principles of Pinnacle into one cohesive framework built for execution through empowered teams.

Summit OS focuses on empowering people, executing relentlessly, and building competitive moats that make your business hard to copy — and hard to beat.

In the first 45 days, we’ll install the execution foundations of Summit OS:

  • You articulate your Core Values and Vision, build a Strategic Plan, and align your team around them. 
  • Your leadership team gains clarity on priorities and accountability.
  • You start running effective daily and weekly meetings that generate decisions and action.
  • You’ll see decisions get made faster, ownership increase, and distractions decrease.

The transformation starts with execution momentum — then we scale it across your company and start working on what you need: Playbooks, Leadership development, Revenue Growth, or Strategy.

Summit OS is ideal for privately owned, growth-minded companies with 10-250 people, especially in professional services, tech-enabled services, distribution, and construction.

These sectors have lots of companies with strong leaders and solid businesses — but too much depends on the founder or a few key players.

Summit OS helps them build leadership depth, operational rhythm, and strategic defensibility so they can grow faster with less chaos.

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