Rachel Stewart
CEO & Founder of Xcelerate
Rachel Stewart is the CEO/Co-founder of Xcelerate Restoration Software, a job management platform focused on helping contractors be successful. She is deeply passionate about contractor-focused technology because she has lived the problem firsthand, having scaled a restoration company from $1.5M to $22M over 12 years.
During that span, she spent much of her time focused on processes, accountability, profitability, and company culture. She has a passion for building teams and has a reputation for maximizing talent within organizations. She attributes much of her success to learning “Visioneering” at an early age and is excited to share how it can transform organizations and lives.
Brandon Reece
Floodlight Consulting Group
My passion to work with Restoration business owners and their teams comes from a place of deep understanding to what keeps them up at night. I’m intimately familiar with the struggles, hardships and extraordinary rewards emerging and experienced leaders face every day as they guide their organizations. There were many days I wished I could have had a trusted confidant in my corner. Someone that had my best interest in mind and could help me identify the blind spots that held me back. Someone to offer me a fresh perspective on how I was leading and what tools I was missing in the moment. Because of that, my sole focus now is to use my more than 26 years of training, education and real world experience to equip leaders with the mindset, skills and methodology to lead for maximum impact.
Chris Nordyke
Floodlight Consulting Group
Chris began his business career in direct sales, selling Cutco Knives for Vector Marketing at age 19 while going to school. He was a personal sales leader, and subsequently a Top 20 branch office manager in Los Angeles, directly responsible for all recruiting, training, team development and revenue across a team of more than 40 sales reps.Vector proved to be a foundational training ground in entrepreneurship, team-building, and sales leadership that Chris continues to draw on in his work with restoration teams. Chris’s primary B2B sales training came during his tenure as a Contract Sales Rep for Cintas Corporation, a Fortune 500 laundry services firm. Here, Chris was introduced to Requirements Based Selling (RBS) which informed the Pain-Solution selling model Chris continues to use today with clients.
