Our Founder

Our founder, John M McKee, has led organizations and businesses throughout North America.

John was one of the founding senior executive team recruited to create and then launch DIRECTV, now regarded by many as one of the world’s most successful business launches. He subsequently developed and oversaw some of that company’s greatest achievements. Prior to DIRECTV, John led organizations in several industries, worked overseas, and was involved in several business turnarounds.  He’s spent decades in executive suites and boardrooms.

In 2001 he left DIRECTV and established Business Success Coach.

Often seen on television programs nationwide, John is also heard on radio across North America. Interviews and articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers worldwide including: Forbes, Fortune, Elle, Mens Health, US World Weekly News, The Wallstreet Journal, Canada’s Globe and Mail and many local or smaller vehicles.

Encouraged by clients to share his ideas and experience more widely has led John to write and publish extensively. He is sought out for salient information and insight that could be applied to careers, businesses and personal lives in a straightforward manner. (More information follows below.)

Still actively engaged in coaching, John has a well-earned reputation for caring and helping his clients move forward quickly. As a thought leader and author, he has a reputation for matching real-world solutions with state of the art coaching techniques. With 30 years’ experience, he knows what works, and what doesn’t.

The Business Success Coach Network is now an international organization comprised of business and leadership coaches, each of whom own their own practice.

It was very clear to me that a network comprised entirely of experienced and trained Associate Coaches, each of whom are “owners”, would be far more successful in providing results than those employed by large organizations that, in most cases, are primarily focused on personnel-based segments.

 

Our clients are more comfortable working with coaches who have first hand business experience themselves. They’re not simply spouting text book ideas. Consequently trust is built and progress is attained much sooner.”

- John

Solutions – Based on proven experience, training and strategy.

Many of the world’s best-known coaches, including people like Marshall Goldsmith and Anthony Robbins, are not certified coaches – but everybody acknowledges that they get the job done.

Other coaches become outstanding as a result of their studies and training. Although they may have little “first hand” experience in line management; they know how to bring out the best in their clients.

The Business Success Coach Network is an organization that blends the best of both. We deliver results. John personally interviews every Associate in our Network to ensure we will always provide our clients with what they need.

More about John:

Married to Susan Leslie McKee since 1974,  John has 3 children and 2 grand children.  Living in California, he is active with Art Trek, a non-profit organization dedicated to getting the arts back into schools that, due to budget cuts, may be unable to provide it on their own.

He is an author of 3 published books, his new book, “The Plan” is already available on 3 continents. Earlier works continue to help career professionals “Career Wisdom – 101 Proven Strategies to Ensure Career Success” (2008) and “21 Ways Women in Management Shoot Themselves in the Foot,” (2006)

Weekly columnist for CBS Interactive, John’s articles on leadership are read by many executives and business people worldwide.

His advice appears in magazines and newspapers such as Fortune, Forbes and Men’s Health, US Weekly World News and online at sites as varied as CNN/Money.com, Forbes.com, and Cosmo.com.

John is a frequent guest expert discussing performance improvement and management issues; he addresses associations and groups of all sizes, sharing insights and providing guidance.

(For more information: Media area.)