Cameron Herold
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Cameron Herold is known for COO leadership frameworks, meeting discipline, and practical operating systems that help growing companies scale with more clarity and execution rigor.
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How to run highly effective meetings at every level
Cameron Herold
November 4, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Bad meetings stem from never training employees on meeting basics.
End meetings five minutes early — it eliminates chronic lateness entirely.
Six distinct meeting types every company needs, from daily huddle to annual planning.
How to raise entrepreneurial kids and build systems that scale
Cameron Herold
November 2, 2024
Processes & SOPs
8
Hiring & recruitment
7
Management
6
Straight-A students often make the worst entrepreneurs — adversity tolerance is key
Let kids run their own failing lemonade stand; coaching beats doing it for them
Don't spend on paid ads until vehicles are wrapped and job-site signs are up
Founder interviews
YouTube
Entrepreneurship, vulnerability, and the courage to be honest
Cameron Herold
October 28, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Management
5
98% of founders have no safe space to speak the truth.
Ignoring a quiet CFO nearly killed a $106M company.
Writing your future self in detail makes everyone help it happen.
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Cameron Herold built business systems from student painting franchises
Cameron Herold
October 26, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Business operating systems
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
Reverse engineering goals beat forecasting — the exact method that scaled to $106M
Every operational system fits on a post-it note and transfers across any business
The right COO must match the CEO's stage, not just their ambition
How culture, skills, and PR drive business growth without big budgets
Cameron Herold
October 21, 2024
Culture building
8
Management
7
PR & media
6
A leader's job is growing people, not doing the work themselves.
5,200 media stories in six years with zero marketing budget.
COOs need a CEO-free peer space — they think fundamentally differently.
Building great companies while staying rounded as a person
Cameron Herold
October 19, 2024
Delegation
9
Culture building
8
Work-life balance
6
Employee NPS beats customer NPS as the primary growth metric
Caring about employees as humans creates loyalty no incentive can buy
Selling your company with no hobbies left is a personal failure
Adapt or Die: Building Business and Culture for a Borderless World
Cameron Herold
October 14, 2024
Culture building
10
Pivoting
7
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Fractional global hiring beats local full-time talent on cost and quality.
Four culture pillars — vivid vision, values, purpose, BHAG — beat perks.
CEO–COO partnership requires deliberate matching, not just filling a role.
Business operating systems
YouTube
How to build and scale an entrepreneurial company that thrives
Cameron Herold
October 12, 2024
Business operating systems
9
Culture building
7
Delegation
5
A written 3-year vivid vision replaced guesswork and drove 50x revenue growth
Culture lives or dies on firing core-values breakers — not posting them on walls
Entrepreneurial ADD is a superpower only if you have a greenlight/redlight filter
Hiring & recruitment
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How to find and work with the right COO for your company
Cameron Herold
October 7, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
7
Delegation
6
The right COO is a personal match, not a universal role.
Culture requires core values, purpose, BHAG, and people systems — not perks.
Ignoring quiet financial warnings nearly bankrupted a $106M company.
How COOs and CEOs build a high-trust operating partnership
Cameron Herold
October 5, 2024
Management
9
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Delegation
5
A great COO match depends on company stage, not just skills
Abdication and lane-crossing destroy the CEO-COO dynamic
The COO's job is growing people, not doing the work
Why every entrepreneur needs a vivid vision
Cameron Herold
September 30, 2024
Vision & mission
10
Culture building
6
Long-term planning
5
A clear written vision lets strangers build exactly what you imagined.
Three years is the sweet spot — one year too close, ten too far.
Sharing the vision filters out misaligned employees before they cause drag.
Building a personal brand and lean creator team as a thought leader
Cameron Herold
September 28, 2024
Branding
9
Culture building
7
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Your name attached to a brand is worth more than salary
Global fractional hires cut team costs by 80% or more
Employee NPS is the only metric that drives everything else
How to scale a business: pricing, culture, and PR as growth levers
Cameron Herold
September 23, 2024
Culture building
8
Pricing strategy
7
PR & media
7
Raising prices 40% on day one beats competing on cost
Toxic high-performers damage culture more than low results do
Earned media outperformed paid ads for 5,200 press stories
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to Find, Hire, and Keep the Right COO for Your Company
Cameron Herold
September 21, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
7
AI strategy & adoption
5
The right COO depends on company stage, not just competence.
Slow onboarding prevents costly disruption in the first 90 days.
Most companies need an executive assistant, not a Chief of Staff.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
What recruiting experts know about hiring a second-in-command
Cameron Herold
September 16, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Delegation
7
Outsourcing & delegation
5
A-players aren't on job boards — you have to poach them
Know everything about a candidate before they start, not after 90 days
Bonuses demotivate as often as motivate; pay at the 80th percentile instead