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      <image:caption>Behrelk’s discovery interview process enables us to create a tailored approach specific to your industry, business needs, customers, and goals helping you deliver a recognized higher value to your clients. Why should you call us? When a trigger event has or will be occurring. Such as: Buying Selling Scaling Raising capital Transitioning of power Upcoming audits Declining growth These trigger events can significantly impact the value of an organization if not adequately addressed in a beneficial and timely manner. Major occurrences, that prompt the need for action and advice, add increased stress levels due to the lack of knowledge, support, time, and capacity. For immediate support of additional required services please contact us directly.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About Us - Empowering Business Owners.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Behrelk™ was founded with the intent of providing entrepreneurs with measurable, repeatable, and consistent data collection enabling pertinent strategic initiatives and resolutions to hurdles that limit overall business success. After years of hearing from countless business owners regarding varying levels of frustrations from failed initiatives or loss of valued customers, we developed a 10 Key Value Points™ assessment that better aligns with improving and maintaining total business value. Our solution? A deep-dive analysis to understand why and how this continues to happen. What we found was a great inconsistency with data gathering and methodology when asserting company initiatives. Even successful Fortune 500 companies have shared in this frustration. Additionally, owners are continually at the mercy of M&amp;A (Mergers &amp; Acquisitions) firm’s valuations that underbid the value of their company and demean their years of labor. The truest and most important value of any company is in your clients. Your people, products, and services are all designed around their needs. Historically, companies are not successful in gathering and applying client experience data correctly to help advance their business cycle and use it as leverage. Behrelk™ was founded for this purpose. We empower business owners with real valuation insight. Hiring our unbiased 3rd party firm provides you with validated data and trends affecting your company’s overall customer value from a past, present, and future relational standpoint. This data can be used for potential buyers, strategic initiatives, investors, and auditors.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When buying, selling, or scaling a business, our process is designed to help you maximize value, mitigate risk, and optimize allocated costs. We employ our proprietary 10 Value Points™ system, to all of our services, in order to produce validated data that drives consistent results in operational initiatives to ensure best practices for higher outcomes of success. Do you know your differentiator? Do you have a proper vetting system for new products and services? Is your brand easily recognizable? Are your employees fully engaged? Is your process streamlined? Do you have the information necessary to produce an optimized pitch deck or presentation? Having reproducible, and measurable processes that lead to conversion, retention, and growth of clients is essential to adding significant value to your company’s economic integrity, structure, and longevity. Getting acquired or thinking of selling? Strategic acquisitions are executed with the intent of improving market share through one or more of the 7 value forces: geographic expansion, operational prowess, innovative technology, supply chain, intellectual property, product extension, or people capital. Behrelk will collaborate with you to address all of the above concerns and highlight your company’s maximum profitability and efficiency. Your pitch deck and presentations should align with the 7 value forces and your buyer’s interest. We discover buyers’ motives through the proprietary 10 Key Value Points™ assessment. Behrelk’s tailored due diligence is guaranteed to provide a report that will strengthen your negotiation strategies, and improve critical initiatives which lead to an increased valuation.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adam Elkhaldi As an entrepreneur, with close to 25 years of experience in building, purchasing, marketing, and selling companies, Mr. Elkhaldi has developed a unique insight that lends itself to recognizing the pitfalls and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) that drive failure or success. With an extensive background in planning and managing interdepartmental business procedures and automation projects, Adam is an analytical and visionary thinker who effectively partners with senior managers to assess opportunities, facilitate strategic decisions, and drive successful implementations. Mr. Elkhaldi has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, hedge fund managers, and private equity groups, to develop strategic initiatives that drive overall expansion, scalability, and staff engagement.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Marti Behrmann As a specialist in strategic planning, business transformation, training, and leadership development, Marti’s expertise in managing effective assessments, prevention, and mitigation during the due diligence process exceeds the industry standards. With over 25 years of experience and vast knowledge in multiple industries, Marti has gained extensive recognition as an expert in healthcare, manufacturing, field services, and logistics. With a Master of Science in Law from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and as a STEM professional, Ms. Behrmann recognizes the importance of regulatory, operational, legal, and financial ramifications and how they impact overall business value.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>At Behrelk, we specialize in providing experienced and skilled professionals to take on critical roles within your organization on a temporary or long-term basis. Whether you need a manager, executive, or specialized consultant, our team is ready to step in and deliver immediate value. Our services are designed to offer flexibility and expertise when you need it most, ensuring your business continues to operate smoothly and efficiently. We understand that every organization faces unique challenges, and our team is equipped to handle a wide range of functions, from project management to executive leadership. A major benefit of our service is its cost-saving advantage. Opting for a fractional manager is not only more affordable than hiring a full-time permanent employee but also brings you top-tier talent without the long-term commitment and overhead expenses. This strategic approach enables you to allocate resources more efficiently, scaling your leadership needs precisely to match your business demands. By choosing Behrelk, you are investing in flexibility, expertise, and significant cost savings. Our Key Services Include: Temporary or Long-Term Management: Filling key managerial positions during transitions, leaves of absence, or periods of rapid growth. Executive Leadership: Providing C-suite level executives on a fractional basis to guide your organization through strategic changes. Specialized Consulting: Offering expert consultants for specific projects or to address particular challenges within your organization. We provide seasoned professionals with a track record of success across various industries. Our consultants are experts at quickly integrating into your team, understanding your business needs, and driving results. With Behrelk, you gain access to top-tier talent to help you navigate through periods of change with confidence and ease.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Stuggling with the recruiting of high quality talent? When interviewing candidates, aligning personal and professional goals with relevant experience and skill sets leads to a better hire. This, in turn, mitigates turnover and increases employee retention. At Behrelk, our unique recruitment process includes: Vetting candidates personal preferences and professional ambitions/proficiencies Collaborating with hiring managers to tailor a recruitment process using historical data of successes and pitfalls Developing and/or improving job descriptions Personality index utilization Qualifying leads Researching pay range Executing the first interview Verifying credentials Research shows that organizations fail to pick high-talent candidates 82% of the time. - GALLUP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Are you launching a new product, merging or acquiring, opening a new location,or expanding operations? Developing a collective goal and vision is crucial to implementing and maintaining a succesful plan of action. We collaborate and provide expectation management through: Detailed feedback reports Milestones and deliverables Regulatory requirements monitoring Communication protocol Timeline and schedules Teamwork Budgets KPIs Succesful project facilitation includes an array of duties and responsibilities to support the advancement of a team by providing analysis, consulting, and oversight to SMEs (Subject Matter Experts). Behrelk ensures effective problem solving and decision making throughout the implementation life cycle. Preparedness is critical to execution. Our experience helps you maximize productivity using real time benchmarks specific to your industry, while avoiding pitfalls. Companies that applied best-practice principles optimizing employee engagement at the workgroup level outperformed their five largest peers by 26% in gross margin and 85% in sales growth. - Forbes</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>What is our comprehensive Tailored 360 evaluation process? A collective assessment of the 10 essential categories used to benchmark successful companies. During this evaluation we identify organizational, procedural, systematic, and hidden factors that facilitate or impede a programs ability to achieve maximum success. The results exhibit quantitative and qualitative outcomes that impact your task goals, budget, recruiting, client retention, and highlight good vs bad EBITDA practices. This methodology is a non-biased, randomized, and confidential approach designed to allow the customer’s voice to be heard without fear of the “sales ask”. Our approach is systematic, measurable, and repeatable. Our findings outline: Client frustrations Buying motivations Future interest Internal company changes Brand perception Competitive edge Client needs Companies with a minimum of one annual comprehensive business review, out performed competitors by 23% - 78% according to a 2019 study. - YSOB</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>How are you validating your internal operations? An unbiased, randomized, and veiled verification of your processes is crucial to helping you find any hidden gaps, or corner cutting within your existing practices. Our periodic and randomized review will allow employers and employees to feel more constructive and less targeted with the end goal of overall improvement. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Evaluate call-in process (scripts, call tree, etc.) Product, and company pitches Sales tactics Upsells Customer service Complaint handling Quality control Cleanliness In a review of over 50 US based companies, data showed that productivity increased by 42% when employees were made aware they were being monitored in some way. - Harvard Business Journal (HBJ)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Are you conducting unilateral or 360 employee reviews? Studies show that using a third party facilitator for employee reviews will yield higher rates of candid responses. Often, there is a disconnect between employee and leadership perception regarding professional standards and attitudes. Discovering existing workplace culture and practices is essential to restructuring employee engagement efforts, and future training. Our process evaluates: Leadership methods Management efficacy Training gaps Overall satisfaction Retention and resignation indicators Performance improvement plans Employee competency, effectiveness, and capacity 55% of workers feel their current annual performance reviews do not improve their performance. - Capterra</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Conducting internal exit interviews with subjective results? Subjective versus objective questions is the difference between useful and useless information. Studies have indicated that over 40% of employees provide false answers during internally processed exit interviews due to fear of consequential impact. Utilizing an unbiased firm for this process increases the key factors to maximizing the strategic benefit of exit interviews. Components to a successful review: Third party Secure Unbiased Confidential elements Objective Consistent and measurable Collaborative intent The annual overall turnover rate in the U.S. in 2017 was 26.3%. - The Bureau of Labor Statistics.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Services copy - “We struggled for months to find the same success we had with our intial product launch. After hiring and firing several firms with no forward movement, a friend recommended Behrelk. Our first product launch following your insight and advice was the most profitable since our inception in 2014. Thank you for all you have done to help us create a better system and overall business.”</image:title>
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      <image:title>10 Key Value Points - 10 Key Value Points™ defined:</image:title>
      <image:caption>1. Product: Examines product usage, suitability, capacity, quality, and sustainability. 2. Future state: Examines financial initiatives, economic changes, contingencies, socioeconomic involvement, industry evolution, and exit planning. 3. People: Examines the relational impact of internal &amp; external individuals, and the impacts on financial and operational success. 4. Customer Experience: Examines customer offerings, communications, success, and engagement. 5. Systems: Examines technology platforms, innovations, supply chains, and delivery methods. 6. Legal: Examines client contracts, non-disclosure agreements, non-competes, liabilities, regulatory compliance, and intellectual property. 7. Retention: Examines strategic collaborations, initiatives, and attrition. 8. Marketing: Examines social media, brand, reputation, community impact, campaigns, and industry awareness. 9. Safety &amp; Regulatory: Examines quality assurance, internal &amp; external audits, mandates, certificates, security, and credentials. 10. Competitive Components: Examines geographic competitors, products, consumer choice, services, and differentiators. Bureau of Labor Statistics studies shows that approximately 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 45% during the first five years, and 65% during the first 10 years. Only 25% of new businesses make it to 15 years or more.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Over the years, numerous companies have claimed their business challenges are one-of-a-kind in their industry. Yet, our extensive education, experience, and research, drawing from reputable sources like Harvard Business Journal, Forbes, and the Small Business Administration, reveal otherwise. We've identified 10 universal markers across industries that define success or failure. To ensure consistency and measurability, we've streamlined all business value drivers into categories, assessing your overall business health through our 10 Key Value Points™.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Common Q&amp;A - Still Not Sure About The Tailored 360 Evaluation?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Before moving forward with our Tailored 360 Evaluation, business owners often have a few key questions. Below are the most frequently asked questions, along with the clear, straightforward answers we consistently provide. “I already know what the problems are, why pay for analysis?” Because symptoms aren’t root causes. You might sense friction, lost margin, or underperformance, but the 360 surfaces why. We combine data, team input, and competitive insights to uncover blind spots you may not even realize are costing you. It’s not theory, it’s operational truth. “What if I don’t hire you afterward? Will this still be useful?” Absolutely. The Tailored 360 is a complete standalone deliverable. It provides you with a strategic roadmap, a heatmap of business risks, and prioritized next steps you can act on immediately. “We’re too busy right now for this.” That’s exactly why it matters. If you’re too busy to figure out why you’re so overwhelmed, growth will always feel chaotic. The evaluation is light on your time, we handle the data, the team conversations, and the heavy lifting. You get clarity without the disruption. “We’ve tried consultants before. It didn’t change anything.” That’s why we don’t jump straight into consulting. Many firms start with advice. We start by diagnosing the root issues. Our 360 ensures any recommendations are based on evidence, not opinions. And we prioritize what’s actionable and aligned with your business, not a generic playbook. “This sounds expensive.” It’s more affordable than you might think, and built to deliver value fast. The Tailored 360 is a focused, one-time investment designed to give you clarity and direction. Many clients find that the insights lead to quick wins, saving time, reducing waste, and improving performance almost immediately. Compared to the cost of trial-and-error decisions or hiring a full-time executive, it’s a highly efficient starting point. “We already have dashboards and KPIs.” That’s great, but are they telling the full story? The Tailored 360 combines your data with context: team dynamics, customer experience, and competitive positioning. Dashboards show numbers. We show meaning. Have a question we didn’t cover? Click the link below or schedule a quick call. We’re happy to talk it through.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Services - Business Diagnostic</image:title>
      <image:caption>We help business owners evaluate how well their operations support their strategic goals and uncover what is preventing progress. What We Do We conduct structured business evaluations designed to assess alignment between your company’s operations and its long-term objectives. Using our established framework, we identify what is performing well, where critical gaps exist, and what actions can help you move forward with clarity and confidence. How It Works Our process begins with a review of your business goals. From there, we evaluate performance across key operational areas such as systems, personnel, customer experience, marketing, and financial controls. We gather the necessary information, analyze it through our framework, and deliver a concise findings report and action plan. What You Receive A discovery session to define goals and clarify context Evaluation across core operational categories Interviews with leadership or team members A findings report with: Confirmed strengths Misalignments and inefficiencies Recommended next steps with clear priorities The result is a standalone report you can act on with your internal team, or with our direct support if needed. When to Engage Use our process to identify priorities and align operations before: Expanding into new markets or services Restructuring departments or workflows Transferring ownership or planning succession Shifting leadership roles or responsibilities Seeking outside investment or preparing for a sale Scaling operations after rapid growth Addressing performance issues or inefficiencies Launching a new strategic plan Preparing for audits, certifications, or due diligence Whether you are planning, growing, or correcting course, our evaluation helps ensure your next move is backed by clarity and alignment.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Are you launching a new product, merging or acquiring, opening a new location,or expanding operations? Developing a collective goal and vision is crucial to implementing and maintaining a succesful plan of action. We collaborate and provide expectation management through: Detailed feedback reports Milestones and deliverables Regulatory requirements monitoring Communication protocol Timeline and schedules Teamwork Budgets KPIs Succesful project facilitation includes an array of duties and responsibilities to support the advancement of a team by providing analysis, consulting, and oversight to SMEs (Subject Matter Experts). Behrelk ensures effective problem solving and decision making throughout the implementation life cycle. Preparedness is critical to execution. Our experience helps you maximize productivity using real time benchmarks specific to your industry, while avoiding pitfalls. Companies that applied best-practice principles optimizing employee engagement at the workgroup level outperformed their five largest peers by 26% in gross margin and 85% in sales growth. - Forbes</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Conducting internal exit interviews with subjective results? Subjective versus objective questions is the difference between useful and useless information. Studies have indicated that over 40% of employees provide false answers during internally processed exit interviews due to fear of consequential impact. Utilizing an unbiased firm for this process increases the key factors to maximizing the strategic benefit of exit interviews. Components to a successful review: Third party Secure Unbiased Confidential elements Objective Consistent and measurable Collaborative intent The annual overall turnover rate in the U.S. in 2017 was 26.3%. - The Bureau of Labor Statistics.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Stuggling with the recruiting of high quality talent? When interviewing candidates, aligning personal and professional goals with relevant experience and skill sets leads to a better hire. This, in turn, mitigates turnover and increases employee retention. At Behrelk, our unique recruitment process includes: Vetting candidates personal preferences and professional ambitions/proficiencies Collaborating with hiring managers to tailor a recruitment process using historical data of successes and pitfalls Developing and/or improving job descriptions Personality index utilization Qualifying leads Researching pay range Executing the first interview Verifying credentials Research shows that organizations fail to pick high-talent candidates 82% of the time. - GALLUP</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Are you conducting unilateral or 360 employee reviews? Studies show that using a third party facilitator for employee reviews will yield higher rates of candid responses. Often, there is a disconnect between employee and leadership perception regarding professional standards and attitudes. Discovering existing workplace culture and practices is essential to restructuring employee engagement efforts, and future training. Our process evaluates: Leadership methods Management efficacy Training gaps Overall satisfaction Retention and resignation indicators Performance improvement plans Employee competency, effectiveness, and capacity 55% of workers feel their current annual performance reviews do not improve their performance. - Capterra</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>At Behrelk, we specialize in providing experienced professionals to fill critical roles within your organization on a temporary, project-based, or fractional basis. Whether you need a manager, executive, or subject matter expert, our team is ready to step in and deliver immediate value aligned with your business goals. Our services are built for flexibility. We understand that not every business needs a full-time hire for every strategic role. That is why we offer fractional leadership solutions giving you access to proven talent without the long-term cost or commitment. Whether you are navigating a growth phase, facing a leadership gap, or tackling a complex project, our professionals integrate quickly and drive measurable results. A major advantage of fractional services is cost-efficiency. Hiring a fractional manager or executive allows you to leverage high-level expertise at a fraction of the cost of a full-time employee. You avoid overhead expenses while gaining the strategic input needed to move your business forward with precision. Our Key Services Include: Fractional and Interim Management Seasoned managers and directors available to lead departments during transition periods, leaves of absence, or operational scaling. Project-Based and Specialized Consulting Experts brought in to solve specific challenges, lead initiatives, or provide functional leadership in areas such as operations, finance, HR, or marketing. Positions Available for Hire We offer access to professionals across a wide range of roles, including: Departmental and Operational Roles Operations Manager Project Manager Marketing Director Customer Success Manager Sales Director Compliance and Risk Manager Specialized Consultants Business Process Improvement Consultant Strategic Planning Consultant Organizational Development Advisor Market Entry or Expansion Strategist Turnaround and Restructuring Advisor By choosing Behrelk, you gain a strategic partner committed to helping you solve leadership gaps, improve performance, and maintain momentum without the burden of unnecessary overhead.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>What is our comprehensive Tailored 360 evaluation process? A collective assessment of the 10 essential categories used to benchmark successful companies. During this evaluation we identify organizational, procedural, systematic, and hidden factors that facilitate or impede a programs ability to achieve maximum success. The results exhibit quantitative and qualitative outcomes that impact your task goals, budget, recruiting, client retention, and highlight good vs bad EBITDA practices. This methodology is a non-biased, randomized, and confidential approach designed to allow the customer’s voice to be heard without fear of the “sales ask”. Our approach is systematic, measurable, and repeatable. Our findings outline: Client frustrations Buying motivations Future interest Internal company changes Brand perception Competitive edge Client needs Companies with a minimum of one annual comprehensive business review, out performed competitors by 23% - 78% according to a 2019 study. - YSOB</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>How are you validating your internal operations? An unbiased, randomized, and veiled verification of your processes is crucial to helping you find any hidden gaps, or corner cutting within your existing practices. Our periodic and randomized review will allow employers and employees to feel more constructive and less targeted with the end goal of overall improvement. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Evaluate call-in process (scripts, call tree, etc.) Product, and company pitches Sales tactics Upsells Customer service Complaint handling Quality control Cleanliness In a review of over 50 US based companies, data showed that productivity increased by 42% when employees were made aware they were being monitored in some way. - Harvard Business Journal (HBJ)</image:caption>
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