Tyrone "Rainmaker" Matheson
Rainmaker and Strategic Growth Architect
18+ years looking at what businesses overlook. The opportunity is usually there. Seeing it from the inside is the hard part.
I have worked with start-ups finding their first distribution channel and with mature operators preparing for 7 and 8-figure exits. The work does not change much between them. Find what is sitting unused inside the business, then build the relationships that turn it into revenue.
How I got here
I don't like seeing value go to waste. If a business gives people something they need, it should keep going long after the owner sells. The same goes for people. I have always disliked watching someone with a real gift do nothing with it.
Around 2008, the talk I kept hearing was about owners exiting, a huge transfer of wealth on the way, and most owner-led businesses not making it through the handoff. I could see it in my own town. A mall emptied out one business at a time until it felt like a ghost town. Those owners were not careless. They were busy running the business, so nobody stepped back to ask how it could change.
My own path started with teaching insurance advisors how to build a business. I then left to sell and facilitate leadership development programs inside companies. What frustrated me was that once the program ended, the leaders did not implement what they had learned.
I started by putting systems and process in place, and quickly saw I had created a job for myself. So I moved to strategy: vision, mission, values and business model. I wrote the strategy and brought in other professionals to manage the change. Change management is slow, and that bothered me.
A partner told me I was good at connecting dots and people. I went down that rabbit hole, and today I focus on growing companies through strategic leverage. Because I can see a business from A to Z, I bring in the right players, so the growth plan covers the whole company, with partnerships as the main lever.
I knew it worked the first time I solved a problem by matching what one side needed with what another side already had. That is how the world has always worked: you connect a problem to a solution. I just do it on purpose.
I work with a small number of owner-led businesses at any one time. Every introduction comes through my network directly.
Accelerating business growth since 2008