I'm from the future.
I've made the mistakes. Learned the hard lessons. Now I help you see around corners and skip the painful parts.
I've been where you are. And I've helped 150+ agencies get where you're going.
Kurt is a former agency operator, 2x Inc. 5000 founder, and the person agency founders call when they're ready to build a real marketing function. Author of The Attraction Agency (Amazon bestseller), TEN-TEN-TEN, and The Little Book of Networking. He's spent 25+ years helping companies turn strong delivery into predictable growth. Not with theory, but with systems he's built and run himself.
From BMX Champion to Agency Growth Consultant
Before I was helping agencies build growth engines, I was a professional BMX freestyler competing at the highest level. Here's what most people don't realize: The skills that made me successful in extreme sports; reading situations split-seconds before they happen, making high-stakes decisions under pressure, and relentlessly iterating until you nail the execution, are exactly the skills growing companies need. In BMX, you study the competition, understand the terrain, and build a strategy before you ever drop in. One mistake and you're done. There's no room for guessing.
That discipline translated directly when I joined Foundry and helped scale it from 50 to 500+ employees. As President, I led the company to the Inc. 5000 list, twice. But I'd also made every expensive mistake in the book: hiring wrong, scaling too fast, building services nobody wanted, losing great talent to burnout. Each failure taught me something companies pay six figures to learn. Now through Schmidt Consulting Group, I help agencies and service firms compress 10 years of trial-and-error into a clear 90-day roadmap.
The Track Record
BMX Pro
Professional BMX freestyle athlete. Learned discipline and strategy.
Built Foundry
Scaled from startup to 500+ employees.
INC 5000 (2x)
Led Foundry to America's fastest-growing companies. Twice.
100+ Agencies
Author, podcaster, and consultant helping agencies build growth engines worldwide.
Agency Unfiltered
Real conversations about building growth systems, growing agencies, and the operational decisions that actually move revenue.
No BS. Just what works.
Each week, Kurt breaks down the strategies and frameworks behind predictable growth. Tactical, honest, and built for founders who want to build something that lasts.
I write what I've learned.
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