Scale your SYSTEMS without losing your SOUL!
You’ve launched your business and had good success with it, and now you want to take it to the next level. But you have seen what happens to companies that grow without guidance. They turn into the corporate bureaucracy that you started your business to avoid in the first place. You want to scale your growth without losing your unique personality and joy in the process. You need a framework that combines both Systems AND Soul!
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You need Tools. You need Support. You need Ajarn!​
Testimonials
"Our staff retreat with Mark Caldwell was transformative. Using the Working Genius model, we gained a shared language for teamwork, discovered how to lean on each other’s strengths, and left with practical tools to communicate better and work together more effectively."
Alison Shaffer, President & CEO
Puyallup Sumner Chamber of Commerce
Why I'm Passionate About Team Leadership
Hello! I’m Ajarn* Mark Caldwell.
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While I was climbing the corporate ladder in IT, moving from individual contributor to manager and on to director, I discovered two very important things:
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My degree in business had prepared me well to analyze businesses, but not to lead people.
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There are a lot of really bad examples of how to lead people in the IT business.
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This realization led me to strike out on my own search for learning a better way, which included studying the works of leadership guru and author John Maxwell, teachings by Simon Sinek, and the works of organizational health expert Patrick Lencioni and The Table Group. As Simon says, I was trying to become the leader that I wished I'd had.
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After taking this learning back to my teams and implementing it with fantastic results, I knew that I had to share it with others who were feeling the same way, and Ajarn Academy was born. Now certified as a Working Genius Facilitator from The Table Group, and also a Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Speaker, Trainer, and Coach​, it is my mission to share a better way of leading teams with SMB's everywhere.
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​*Ajarn is a Thai- and Lao-derived term that translates as "professor" or "teacher".
