



Go from chaos to clarity.
IMPLEMENT A PROVEN, STRAIGHTFORWARD FRAMEWORK THAT DRIVES BUSINESS GROWTH AND STRENGTHENS TEAM UNITY.
Are you one leadership team away from extinction or greatness?
Are you:
● Concerned about economic conditions potentially eroding your competitive edge?
● Involved with too many projects, all vying for your time and attention?
● Shouldering the burden of decision-making and innovation?
● Feeling frustrated, perhaps even desperate, because your team isn’t focused on what matters most?
There is a better way. The gap between extinction and greatness isn’t as wide as you think. Build your business on a framework that delivers results so you can feel confident in your business again.

John Gaudet
PINNACLE GUIDE
I’ve been there
A Maine native and USAF Veteran (1977 – 1987), John Gaudet spent fourteen years working in human resource manager and director roles before founding human resource advisory firm J. Gaudet Associates, serving over 120 clients across Northern New England. He is a former Certified EMyth Business Coach, Working Genius Certified Facilitator, a Professional EOS Implementer (2018 – 2021), a founding member of Pinnacle Business Guides, and a Pinnacle Strategy Advisor and Leadership Team Coach.
John brings decades of experience as a human resources and organizational development advisor, an expert team facilitator, strategy advisor, leadership team coach. By combining his human resources, coaching, strategy and business growth experience with curated Pinnacle tools, he is uniquely positioned to help clients thrive.
On a typical day, you will find John providing business owners and their leadership teams with proven yet tailored strategic advice and coaching. As a Pinnacle Business Guide, he coaches teams, providing them with tools and methodologies to reach their long-term objectives (their Pinnacle), mid-point milestones, annual goals, and quarterly priorities, all while working to improve team health.
John enjoys helping his clients achieve their goals, and ultimately improve company culture, team health, employee retention, cash flow, and profitability.

The Pinnacle Principle
People
Surrounding yourself with the right people is a necessity. To embark on this journey, you’ll need to carefully select your team. Pick people who will help raise you up, and remove people who slow you down. A unified team working toward a common goal will always get further than even the most motivated individual.

The Pinnacle Principle
Purpose
The climb to the top requires some serious thinking. You have to figure out what you’re really all about, and what makes you different. How do you stand out from the crowd? What are you bringing to the table that nobody else can provide? What story are you telling with your work? This insight will help to develop the strategy you need for the journey.

The Pinnacle Principle
Playbook
“Just wing it” is bad advice when scaling a mountain, and it’s bad advice for business. Developing a clear-cut plan for everything you do will keep things running smoothly. Devise a strategy for business operations, meetings, and everything else you do, and keep it consistent.

The Pinnacle Principle
Performance
Actions really do speak louder than words. Even the best plan is useless without follow-through. You don’t have to get it all done in a day, but focus on incremental improvement and keep track as it happens. Only consistent practice can lead to exceptional performance.

The Pinnacle Principle
Profits
A great strategy builds momentum over time, continuing to get better, faster, and cheaper. With the right people, a clearly defined purpose, a detailed playbook, and consistent performance, profits are nearly inevitable. Sir Edmund Hillary once said, “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” (And as one of the first people to climb Mt. Everest, we think he’d know.)

The formula to success: the Pinnacle Principle
People + Purpose + Playbook + Performance = Profits
People
Surrounding yourself with the right people is a necessity. To embark on this journey, you’ll need to carefully select your team. Pick people who will help raise you up, and remove people who slow you down. A unified team working toward a common goal will always get further than even the most motivated individual.
Purpose
Actions really do speak louder than words. Even the best plan is useless without follow-through. You don’t have to get it all done in a day, but focus on incremental improvement and keep track as it happens. Only consistent practice can lead to exceptional performance.
Playbook
“Just wing it” is bad advice when scaling a mountain, and it’s bad advice for business. Developing a clear-cut plan for everything you do will keep things running smoothly. Devise a strategy for business operations, meetings, and everything else you do, and keep it consistent.
Performance
Actions really do speak louder than words. Even the best plan is useless without follow-through. You don’t have to get it all done in a day, but focus on incremental improvement and keep track as it happens. Only consistent practice can lead to exceptional performance.
Profits
Build a Category of One Company
Gain control
Grow leaders who grow companies.
Simplify your business
Implement a proven, profitable framework to scale up your people, processes and profits.
Be confident
Gain control
Grow leaders who grow companies.
Simplify your business
Implement a proven, profitable framework to scale up your people, processes and profits.
Be confident
Move your business upward with more clarity and confidence in your future.
What Clients Say
The Journey Before Us
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Audition As Your Guide
Start Your climb
Your journey to the summit requires patience and an ability to play the long game. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. You’ll need to keep your goals in mind and focus on putting your best foot forward every step of the way.
Books that will help Take Your Business to the Top of the Mountain
John Gaudet
207.800.1445
jgaudet@jgaudetassociates.com

(2023)

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