Rechtien Consult LLC

Rechtien Consult helps owner-led manufacturing, construction, contracting and industrial businesses grow without the owner becoming the ceiling.

Most of the owners we work with built the business themselves. They are excellent at the craft, they have been at it eight to twenty years, and the business is profitable — but flat. Every decision still runs through them. The team executes inconsistently. The owner is working harder than they were at half the size, and the thing that got the business here is now the thing holding it back.

Thomas Rechtien spent more than 20 years as a CEO and COO in industrial manufacturing and distribution before founding the practice. That operating background is the difference: this is not theory handed down from outside, it is judgment built inside businesses that had to actually work.

The approach is principle-based rather than rule-based. Most operating systems hand an owner a playbook and tell them to follow the rules. From Stuck to Scaling develops the judgment to make better decisions — a system that adapts to how the business actually runs, rather than the other way around. The arc is Clarity, Alignment, Focus, Momentum.

Engagements start with a fixed 90-day implementation built around one core problem — team clarity, execution rhythm, sales system, leadership structure, or hiring the right second-in-command. Defined scope, defined outcome. After the first 90 days the work continues month to month with the owner and their leadership team, for as long as it is earning its place.

The value tends to show up in one of three places: revenue that was leaking through inconsistent execution, a team that can run the business without the owner in the room, and exit readiness that moves the valuation.

Based in Greater Houston, working with clients across the United States, Canada and Germany.