We help small business leaders bring clarity and confidence to their leadership and business.

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Your team is growing. Your business isn't keeping up.

You're the one holding it all together, and it's exhausting.

I help small business leaders find clarity in the chaos, so growth stops feeling like survival.

Ajay Chikermane

Ajay Chikermane, founder of NowHuman with a bald head and gray beard smiling while touching his chin, indoors with a bookshelf and decorative items in the background.

I spent 30 years building a business from zero to $10 million.

Along the way, I learned something the hard way: growing a team is a different skill than growing a business. I was good at the second one. Nobody taught me the first.

That gap almost broke me more than once. It's also what led me to become a coach trained through iPEC, one of the top coaching certifications bodies in North America, and eventually built NowHuman — so other small business leaders don't have to learn it the hard way too.

Today, I help leaders who are exactly where I once was: growing fast, buried in the day-to-day, and not sure who they can hand things off to. My job is to help you get clear, get your team engaged, and build something that doesn't need you standing over it every minute.

You're not confused about your business.
You built it. You know it inside out.


You're just buried in it.

More people should mean more freedom. Instead, you've got more meetings, more questions, and more fires. You still feel like the only one holding it together.

Your team is growing, but you can't step back without things falling apart.

Your team waits for your sign-off, even on small things. Not because they can't decide. Because no one's ever handed them the trust or the tools to try.

You're making every decision because you're not sure who else can.

People show up. They do the work. But something's missing — the energy, the ownership, the "this is our win too" feeling you had when it was just you and a handful of people.

Your team seems disengaged, and you're not sure why.

You know something needs to change, but you don't have time to figure out what.

You can feel it. Something's off in how the business runs. But you're too deep in the day-to-day to step back and see the shape of the problem, let alone fix it.

If any of that sounds familiar, you're exactly who I built this for.

3 Simple Steps to Clarity and Growth

Let’s make your leadership journey easier.

1

Take the Free Diagnostic

Pinpoint your growing pains and clarify next steps.

2

Schedule a Discovery Call

Identify the challenges you’re facing now.

3

Implement Your Growth Strategy

Work collaboratively for successful execution.

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