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277 - How an Effective Team Impacts Profitability with Ciara Stockeland

Release Date: 07/29/2025

287 - How One Shift Can Make Employees Affordable

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286 - How to Get Your Business Ready to Sell with Dr. Ruth Mannschreck

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283 - How Hospitality Principles Help Build Thriving Teams with Melissa Fackler

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282 - What to Measure to Conduct Effective Performance Reviews

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280 - 3 Ways to Lead Your Team Like You Treat Your Children

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278 - How Small Changes Make Big Differences in the Hiring Process

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On Today’s Episode

Efficiency is one of the keys to profitability. And, a lack of efficiency is one of the biggest reasons why you, as a business owner, feel overworked and like you’re always running out of time.

Do you and your team operate in a place of efficiency? Or, is time being wasted in ways that are impacting your profitability?

Ciara Stockeland joins the Growing Your Team podcast to highlight how creating an efficient and effective team will generate more profitability in your growing small business.

Want to connect with Ciara Stockeland:

Ciara Stockeland, is a speaker, author, 4x Ironman and Fractional CFO for inventory based businesses.

Ciara has owned and operated a business since her early teens. As a serial entrepreneur, her business mindset and tenacity led her to opening her first store in 2006 which she then franchised. Her vast experience in both retail and wholesale industries led her to launch the first to market wholesale subscription box for boutique retailers, which she built and sold within 18 months. Most recently Ciara has launched the Inventory Genius, a consulting program for inventory-based business owners and has published the books Inventory Genius and Profit Genius, both of which give practical steps for creating more profitability in an inventory based business.

She has twice had the opportunity to testify before two U.S. Senate Committees regarding the “joint employer” standard for businesses and its effect on small businesses and franchises. Additionally, in 2015 she represented small businesses at a White House Summit on Worker Voice and again in 2018 for a Summit on Economics.

Ciara has been recognized as a Small Business Champion through SCORE, has held a seat on the United States Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council and is a Profit First Certified Coach. Through her consulting program, Ciara gives business owners the confidence and tools to build profitability and peace of mind in their inventory-based businesses.

In her free time Ciara enjoys training for endurance races and most recently completed her fourth Ironman at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, 2023 and World Championships in New Zealand again in 2024.

She currently resides in Tennessee with her husband Jim and her Great Pyrenees Bentley.

How to Connect with Ciara Stockeland:

Website:www.ciarastockeland.com

Ciara Stockeland’s book Profit Genius for FREE (ebook)

https://www.ciarastockeland.com/offers/i6xB4QNY?coupon_code=PODCASTFREEBIE

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