Chuck Violand is the founder and principal of Violand Management Associates LLC, a consulting company working internationally throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia, whose focus is on small businesses. Chuck started Violand Management in 1987 to help small businesses achieve sustained profitable growth and to help their owners and management teams to achieve long-term professional and personal success. As an author and popular keynote speaker, Chuck is a respected authority on the unique challenges faced by entrepreneurial small businesses, having spent over thirty years as a business consultant and executive coach. He is a regular contributor to trade publications and newsletters in addition to authoring his popular, weekly leadership series Monday Morning Notes. In his 50 years of business, Chuck's varied experience includes having owned nightclubs, a food processing company, and contracting companies. Today, he remains active at Violand Management. Chuck and his wife, Karen, are the parents of four adult children and reside in Northeast Ohio.