The long version
A lot of different chairs.
Eric has spent 25 years helping people get more of what they want and less of what they don't. His career began in dental practice services, where he spent six years running a Henry Schein territory and nearly tripled it. He was then asked to build something that did not exist. He created the company's Business Solutions division and founded the Dental Business Institute, writing the four textbooks that became its curriculum. More than 300 owners completed the program. He earned an MBA from the University of Iowa along the way.
Then the work became more personal. Eric founded and led companies, acquired practices, represented sellers, structured ownership transitions, and worked across more than 100 transactions. He became responsible not just for giving advice, but for payroll, people, capital, risk, and the consequences of getting decisions wrong.
That experience included failure.
Eric knows what happens when growth outruns the systems meant to protect it, when the decisions get heavier, and when the person everyone expects to have the answer is still trying to find one. That became The Broke(n) Part(s), a field guide for founders working through the hardest stretch of building something.
Today, he works with owners and leadership teams on growth, ownership strategy, transactions, and the decisions that shape what happens next.
The measures he cares about are not the biggest numbers on a page. They are owners who got their evenings back, families who came through a sale better than they expected, and businesses that made it through the year that should have ended them.