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, president of a 2x Inc. 5000 agency, 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. There is also a structured overview of the practice covering who he works with and how engagements run.
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 carried into the agency world. At The Nerdery, I helped grow the company from 50 to more than 500 people. Then I came into Foundry as president and partner, scaling it from 3 to 50 and onto the Inc. 5000 list twice. Along the way I 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 years of trial and error into a clear 90-day roadmap.
The Track Record
BMX Pro
Professional BMX freestyle athlete. Learned discipline and strategy.
The Nerdery
Director of project management, then strategy. Helped grow the agency from 50 to 500+ people.
Ran Foundry
Came in as president and partner. Scaled it from 3 to 50.
INC 5000 (2x)
Led Foundry to America's fastest-growing companies. Twice.
150+ Agencies
Author, podcaster, and consultant helping agencies build growth engines worldwide.
The Road Map
Real conversations about building growth systems and the operational decisions that actually move revenue, for owners of agencies, studios, dev shops, and consultancies.
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.
Books
Ready to Build a Real GTM Engine?
Fractional marketing leadership and execution for agencies that are ready to grow on purpose.