"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."
– John C. Maxwell
Gain clarity, direction, and create opportunities that move you forward.
The next level is more different than it is difficult.
A. Ryan Kurek
Trusted for 25 years by Fortune 500 companies, private wealth, business owners, entrepreneurs, and startups.
In business, the status quo has virtually changed overnight. The past two years have introduced both opportunities and threats, driven largely by the emergence of Artificial Intelligence. But it’s not just AI—there have been significant, sweeping shifts in business strategies and tactics.
Companies and leaders must embrace this new economy to turn complex challenges into simple, extraordinary solutions.
We are three complementary businesses, each designed to address today’s challenges and opportunities, such as removing stagnation and gaps, adapting to new demands, and accelerating innovation and growth. Together, we deliver fundamental solutions and dynamic opportunities, seamlessly connected, strategically aligned, and built for real impact.
Welcome to Kurek & Company, Breaking Innovation, and Navesink Ventures. We’ve threaded the needle of the new economy, uncovering what is often overlooked, underutilized, or simply untapped for businesses and owners alike.
What is blocking your ability to level up or get that new idea off the ground? Let’s connect.
About me
What keeps you up at night? Declining revenue? Technology concerns? Financial strains? A stalled concept? This is a smidge of what I’ve built my 25-year career on. I help companies eliminate inefficiencies and simultaneously restore momentum across all business development environments.
And as an opportunist, I like creating new things, whether it’s a business model, business innovation, or new products or services. And nearly everyone has an idea that has potential revenue. Couple that ingenuity with the resources of investment-minded leaders, and you now have a synchronized opportunity to empower innovation which was once difficult to develop.
On a personal level, I treasure my family, and the best word in the world is “daddy.” I love our seashore lifestyle with my girls in the ocean or at sunset with our toes in the sand. And most of all, I like to keep things light, and maybe that’s a part of being wired differently. One time, I held the door at NYC's Grand Central Station for 30 minutes and welcomed everyone to Boston… wish I videotaped that.
In life and business, make Point A to Point B extraordinary.
Three shifts every business leader will need to navigate
THE NEW ECONOMY
AI paired with new customer engagements is reshaping business as old models are dying. That’s why adapting to these newly evolved market demands and expectations are critical. It can feel overwhelming and intimidating and look hard and unfamiliar, but we make it easy. Seamlessly, we craft and deploy tactics for the “new” bottom-line.
FUTURE PROOF YOUR BUSINESS
It’s an unsettling feeling that your business is vulnerable. There’s confusion regarding AI integration, and the complexity of balancing priorities can be overwhelming. Whether it is revenue growth, social media impact awareness, or reputation and review scores, we know how to pivot. We build tactical, manageable, and measurable plans to move you forward.
CONVERTING IDEAS TO CASH FLOW
Everyone seems to have an idea for a business concept or invention, but these great ideas rarely move from the paper napkin. There’s no roadmap on how to start and build something unique. Equally, business opportunists want to invest in innovation or have passion projects of their own they want to test out. We’ve brought both positions together in a dynamic think tank.
When progress slows, the real work begins.
Businesses hit inflection points for all kinds of reasons, from flat revenue and tightening margins to operational drag. Sometimes owners and entrepreneurs simply feel like they are working harder without seeing the return. Enter Kurek & Company.
As an owner, you’re trying to survive and stay relevant in a world of complexity. At Kurek & Company, we collaborate and identify challenges, remove barriers, and infuse solutions to take your business from the edge of uncertainty to the forefront of your industry.
Gain clarity about what matters to you and your customers. We specialize in course-correcting your direction for maximum success and crafting plans that cut through noise instead of adding to it. Let’s make dollars — and sense.
-
Go-to-Market Structuring
-
Revenue Growth
-
New Business Development
-
Expand Business Reach
-
AI and Tech Integration
-
Paid or Organic Awareness
-
Search Optimization (GEO/AEO)
-
CRM Optimization
-
Sales Pipeline Management
-
Strategic Partners / Vendors
-
Customer Excellence / Referrals
-
Customer Journey Feedback
-
Reputation & Review Management
-
ROI Benchmarks
-
Use of Data Insights
-
Competitive Differentiation
-
Brand Enhancement
-
Marketing and Promotions
-
Sales / Inside Sales Cadence
-
Digital & Print Tactics
-
Social Media Strategy
-
Paid Advertising
-
Communication Clarity
-
Process Alignments
If you’re concerned about the cost of going for it…think of the price of staying exactly where you are.
Unique and unfamiliar scenarios.
Business owners and investors face pivotal moments such as initiating growth, transformation, revenue expansion, or positioning for exit. If your business lacks full integration, your data isn’t clean, or your tactics aren’t up to date, you’re likely in a very difficult position.
It’s a big deal. Making the right internal upgrades to optimize overall value, level-up your business processes, and remove risks requires heavy strategic alignment.
-
Total Evaluation & Recommendations
-
Department Evaluation & Suggestions
-
Time Currency & Effort Analysis
-
Business Expansion – New Channels
-
Business Extension - New Markets
-
New Revenue Channel Creation
-
Scale Your Business – Best Options
-
Business Realignment / Transformation
-
Shift Business Focus / New Opportunities
-
Development & Growth Support Options
-
Launch Complementary Ventures
-
Turnaround Support & Execution
-
Business Evaluation for Purchase
-
Business Acquisitions & Mergers
-
Equity Partnerships Assessments
-
Investment Reviews (existing / startups)
-
Strategic Partnerships (ex. Fin or Ops)
-
Business Sale or Exit Preparation
Is it something else? Let’s brainstorm and address your situation in confidence. Contact us.
We are familiar with unique settings. We identify, prepare, support, advise, and manage your scenario from end-to-end. However unique or huge the undertaking appears to be, we have proven solutions and step-by-step actions to achieve the desired goals.
Smart leaders seek strategic support.
“Inside the bottle” syndrome is when business owners are so deep in the day-to-day that they can’t clearly read their own label—blind spots, assumptions, and legacy decisions all start to feel “normal.”
Bringing in external support is smart because a seasoned outsider can see the whole system, point out what others tiptoe around, and design practical changes that unlock opportunities from an objective viewpoint.
None of us are as smart as all of us.
Executive Advisory
Business owners need a trusted “wingman,“ whether it’s for business decisions, feedback, or simply bouncing ideas around. We provide your business a reliable and confidential partner with extensive experience (not mired in business politics) with only one goal – optimal success. If you need objective support to evaluate opportunities, address concerns, and put ideas into action, let’s talk.
Workshop Sessions
It’s not uncommon that organizations need recalibration to shake off the rust. Focus is needed to uncover the root-cause of issues and develop actionable solutions. A structured workshop is an ideal. Organized sessions are impactful and engaging. They invigorate personnel, reveal new opportunities, and create immediate performance and collaboration.
Ambition, Innovation, and Investments
These are the three levers that turn smart ideas into lucrative businesses. We offer experts with the experience and resources to bring concepts to life and innovators with ideas to fill market gaps. All within a confidential setting where owners, entrepreneurs, and private equity firms get collaborative on “first look” opportunities.
Breaking Innovation – Intelligent Development of Imagination
This is where concepts, hunches, half-formed ideas, and visionary leaps finally get the oxygen they deserve. We review, pressure-test, and refine from sketches on a napkin to pitch decks. We’re methodical on how we get concepts to market.
Breaking Innovation is a unique group. We utilize in-house concepts, brainstorm ideas, review market gaps, and evaluate external early-stage projects. Our platform enables objectivity and proper evaluation, focused on feasibility, differentiation, opportunity, revenue modeling, and market fit.
Here’s what’s needed in the market —how do we do it? Breaking Innovation provides the answer.
Our professionals and entrepreneurs possess the experience, intuition, and resources to bullet-proof innovation and inventions to maturity. Most of all, it requires the courage to pursue ideas that deserve to exist.
Everything in the world was at one point just an idea.
Some want to invest, some want to build, and others want clarity on whether an idea has legs. Ideas and opportunities have a timeline. The good ones wait for no one.
Ambition meets investment
Navesink Ventures – The Thinkers and Doers
Navesink Ventures is a private, members-only group of business leaders, investors, and high-achieving professionals who are interested in more than business as usual. It’s where opportunity meets capacity; early-stage startups, promising ventures, acquisitions and build-ups, and those passion-projects collecting dust.
A cascade of pure potential.
Consisting of like-minded yet diverse members, we’ve built a curated pipeline of startups and ventures, regional businesses for acquisition and restructuring, and global investments for our clients, among other opportunities.
Importantly, the Navesink Venture Group has access to “first-look” investment and acquisition opportunities, not those circling freely on the open market.
Lastly, we are a community of thinkers and doers—people who share the same curiosity, ambition, and desire to make an impact. We see opportunities as they are: something to build, shape, and grow, where ideas turn into profitable reality.
Nothing ventured…
Proof positive
Clients served in consulting services:
Leadership role within companies:
Philanthropies:
Co-Chairman, Board of Directors, ALSAC SAB Council
Co-Founder, Marketing and Fundraising Partnerships
Results Delivered
Ryan is one of the most visionary leaders, developing go to market strategies that were nothing short of brilliant. The results were extraordinary: ~$10M in direct revenue, 11 new clients in the first year, ~$16M in pipeline, and record-breaking conversion. Ryan’s vision, drive, and ability to align teams across the company made real impact.
Isaiah Jackson - Director of Marketing, Abacode (Formerly at Kornit Digital)
What I admire about Ryan is his ability to innovate and generate ideas: from marketing programs for clients at Leverage to creating TV shows like 3-Wide Life. Ryan is creative, passionate, and extremely hard working. Those behaviors have been consistent throughout his career.
Brad Morrill - Marketing Director, Best Buy
Ryan is one of the hardest working men in his field. He has exhausted himself at building his business and he knows full well, this is the effort it takes to win. He is devoted to under-promising and ”Overachieving Results.” I find that to be an outstanding trait in today’s business. Ryan goes the extra yard.
Eddie D'Hondt - General Manager, RYR / HMS
Ryan brought Kornit to a whole new level under his leadership. He is one of the most strategic and innovative professionals I’ve worked with in my career. Ryan is extremely personable and genuine. He is a great collaborator throughout the entire organization and I respect his talent greatly.
Wayne Colbath - Sales Director, Kornit Digital
Ryan is a true leader in every sense of the word. He is sharp, articulate, well-spoken and has a keen understanding of business. He maintains a unique balance, combining his talents with both the financial and the creative side of business. Ryan does not settle for mediocrity and works smart, not hard. He maintains a very high degree of integrity, always with a customer-focused approach
David Aregood - Business Development Manager, Convergint
Ryan is a highly experienced, motivated and effective marketing leader. I’m continually
impressed with his attention to detail, creative thinking and knowledge. Ryan is extremely
measurement-driven, enforcing rigor in capturing metrics to understand effectiveness, and managing accordingly.
Matt Reading - VP Customer Success, NICE Systems