Meet Glenn Burkey, Certified Professional Business Coach

Over the last 40+ years Glenn Burkey has been involved with many different businesses and start-ups. Glenn saw firsthand the mistakes and fumbles that business owners often make in the United States and abroad. He believes his decades of experience can help guide business owners through the often confusing labyrinth of decisions one must make when owning a company. Some of his earliest training came from Glenn’s years as a United States Marine. He enlisted in the US Marine Corp and served his country during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His time in the military taught him dedication, organization and to strive for excellence. He had a sense of extreme pride when 40 years later his own son served at Guantanamo Bay after 9/11. After Glenn left the military, he began his career in the construction industry. Between 1964 and 1976, he served as Time Keeper, then Chief Estimator and Office Manager for three divisions of a Construction Company. These three divisions specialized in underground construction, excavating, and concrete and asphalt paving. He worked his way up to a position on the Board of Directors.

Looking for a new challenge, Glenn helped found and served as Vice President of a new construction company. He and his partner built that company to annual sales in excess of $20 million in today’s dollars in four years.

Glenn moved to Texas in the early 80’s to take advantage of the construction and oil boom that was sweeping across the state. He was founder and president of Texas Diggers, Inc., which was responsible for the construction of the main Ring Road for the Amoco Oil Company World Headquarters in Houston, Texas. In addition, Texas Diggers, Inc. constructed sixteen residential subdivisions in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, repaired 700 feet of a leaking tunnel in Fort Worth, and updated the drainage system for the U.S. Government Flight Training Center in Beeville, Texas. Texas Diggers achieved annual sales in excess of $12 million in five years.

Glenn was looking for a change of pace as the 80’s drew to a close, and being so far from his extended family was hard. He packed up the family and moved back to the area, where he once again set up shop. He and his wife started a vending business, and within 4 years they had 3,000 machines in 900 locations all over the Northeast. A friend of Glenn’s recognized that his years of knowledge in the construction industry would be an asset to his engineering company, so he was recruited to head up their civil engineering department. He found he enjoyed consulting and that he excelled at it.

In 2007, Glenn realized that his decades of knowledge could be an asset to others. He was wondering if there was a way that he could help those small entrepreneurs that were out there navigate and manage their businesses. Lo and behold, the engineering company hired some business coaches, and Glenn got to be the recipient of coaching. He realized that this was the perfect path for him to impart his decades of hard earned knowledge to others. Glenn became a business coach and is now answering his calling by helping those entrepreneurs who want to increase their sales, hire better people, get better reporting, sleep better at night, make more money, have fun with their business again, and have some peace of mind.