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Agile Rainmakers is a high-impact business development consulting and advisory firm.
And to give you an idea of where we’re coming from….
There’s this place in Hawaii where it rains like crazy. It’s called Big Bog.
What a cool name, right? Big Bog.
Anyway, Big Bog, on Maui, is not only the largest high-altitude bog in the Hawaiian Islands…with a reported annual rainfall of 404 inches, it’s reputed to be one of the wettest places on earth.
There are very specific conditions that make for this unusually wet tropical rainforest climate: Its altitude puts it very close to something called the trade wind inversion layer, which means there’s a persistent flow of moisture-rich air carried by the northeast trade winds up the steep mountain slopes.
And these trade winds condense to form clouds and precipitation.
Which means it rains. It rains a whole lot.
And the ecosystem has evolved to not just survive but thrive in an environment that receives over 33 FEET of rain a year.
Your business has its own ecosystem, a dynamic entity controlled by both internal and external factors.
What if…
you could quickly and effectively identify your ecosystem and evolve your plans and practices to thrive in your business environment?
What if…
you knew exactly where to focus your attention to produce the best results?
That’s what Agile Rainmakers is about.
“There is always a way to success, you just need to find it. If you can’t find it, create it. Anything is possible—especially when you are committed to the idea that anything is possible.”
— Rob Khoury
Robert J. Khoury, Founder & CEO of Agile Rainmakers
Rob Khoury is the founder and CEO of Agile Rainmakers, a high-impact business development consulting and advisory firm based in Chicago’s Gold Coast. His 20+year career in the financial industry has seen him in many roles: an equity derivatives trader, a portfolio manager, a corporate strategist, a chief operating officer, a recruiter, a hedge fund executive, and a private equity investor.
Rob earned a BSE in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University and his MBA in Finance and International Business from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He takes great pleasure in supporting both Princeton and Duke—he’s past president of Chicago’s Princeton Club—and has won awards from both universities for his service. (The colors in the Agile Rainmakers logo? Orange for Princeton, blue in honor of Duke. Say no more.) He’s also a very active fundraiser for Providence Country Day School, the high school he attended in Rhode Island, where Rob was born and raised.
Rob led seminars for Landmark Worldwide for several years; enjoys volunteering, philanthropy, and family vacations; and lives with his wife, Mary, and their two children in a downtown Chicago condo overlooking Lake Michigan.
When it comes to results, Rob has a reputation for delivering:
He’s had $3M revenue years on three occasions,
has guided a company through expanding 20x its original size,
and once helped a company make $2.2M in one day.
His approach to business is at once pragmatic and transformational:
Rob facilitates success by providing what’s needed in the moment, looking for what’s missing or off in the ecosystem and addressing that.
At the same time, he serves as a trusted advisor and coach in the realm of who one is being—in life, and in any given situation.
Rob is also an accomplished speaker and is available for keynotes and other opportunities to mentor, instruct and inspire.
I believe in making epic challenges fun. We might as well enjoy our work. You can’t get time back, so you might as well do what you enjoy.
For me, fun is people coming together as a team to overcome big challenges that lead to breakthrough results and new opportunities—all while people experience being free in the process.
Bring clarity and power to growing and building a great business.
Our areas of focus:
Our consulting process
Operations
We’ll work to develop a vital, healthy day-to-day workplace environment structured upon open lines of communication, a strong sense of integrity, and clarity in the business process.
In the process, we tend to any potentially overlooked issues within your business. When the conditions are right in your ecosphere, there will be an atmosphere of enthusiasm propelling your business forward by:
raising the overall effectiveness of the business,
resolving shortcomings the company may be facing, and
fostering greater operational efficiency.
Strategy
Once we optimize the existing business operations, we’ll help define and realize the goals of the company.
What possibilities exist in the long view of the business?
What present actions could contribute to realizing the long view?
What potential actions are hindering progress?
Then we’ll develop a clear Plan of Action for achieving your goals by:
researching any avenues to realize goals or progress the business, and
analyzing areas where the business would adjust to accommodate such progress.
Business Development
From strategy assessment we move on to investigate and implement avenues for you to actualize your business’s goals, accomplishing this via:
networking and introducing thoughtful, strategic partnerships, and
implementing new operations within the business.
Once these opportunities are present, we’ll work on:
implementing a foundation to bolster sustainable growth, and
transforming the business to actualize such expansive growth.
Sales + Marketing
We will professionally deploy a skillful marketing campaign for your business, which will, in turn, bolster sales. We will accomplish this through:
working to actualize and refine your branding,
developing a well-thought-out and effective presentation of your brand, and
deploying active efforts to raise awareness of your brand and business’s services.
“Rob is a catalyst for greatness.”
— Shala Akintunde, Creative Director, The Movement Worldwide, Inc.
Get in touch.
Not sure exactly what your business needs? No worries. We can look together at your particular situation and create an actionable plan to get you where you want to be.
Let’s have a conversation, see if we’re a good fit for each other…and go from there.