Tom McMakin
AUTHOR

Tom McMakin

Business & Careers
Tap the gear icon above to manage new release emails.
Tom McMakin is CEO of Profitable Ideas Exchange (PIE), a leading consultancy focused on helping expert services firms with business development by building peer communities of likely buyers. Over the last 20 years, Tom’s company has conducted 10,000 best practices interviews with senior executives at 350 companies in the Fortune 500. Tom is the co-author of the bestselling, How Clients Buy: A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services (Wiley, 2018). He is also the author of the Bread and Butter (St. Martin’s Press, 2001), in which he described his work at Great Harvest Bread Co. and how he and his team created a nationally recognized corporate learning community and culture of best practices using collaborative networks. He has been featured on the pages of Inc. magazine, Fast Company, Money, Entrepreneur, Success, the Economist, Newsweek, the Washington Post, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and is often on the road speaking before consulting and professional services firms. Before joining PIE, McMakin was a co-founder and managing director with Orchard Holdings Group, a private equity firm as well as an operating affiliate at McCown DeLeeuw and TSG Consumer, two billion-dollar consumer-focused buyout groups. Prior to this, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Great Harvest Bread Co., a multi-unit operator of bread stores. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon. Tom and his family live in Bozeman, Montana. Tom can be reached at tmcmakin@profitableideas.com or through the PIE website, www.profitableideas.com.
Read more Read less

The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story

You can’t beat a good story. Luckily, humans are great at storytelling, and the best fiction podcasts are all the proof that the modern listener requires. Get the popcorn ready; it’s storytime.

Featured Article: The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story

Best Sellers

Product list
  • How Clients Buy cover art

    • How Clients Buy

    • A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services
    • Written by: Tom McMakin, Doug Fletcher
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    Price: $22.26 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: $22.26 or 1 Credit

    Try for $0.00
  • Never Say Sell cover art

    • Never Say Sell

    • How the World's Best Consulting and Professional Services Firms Expand Client Relationships
    • Written by: Tom McMakin, Jacob Parks
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2020-11-17
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet

    Price: $22.26 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: $22.26 or 1 Credit

    Try for $0.00