About Step Up
Step Up offers a wide range of finance, employee ownership, and business services
About Step Up
Step Up offers a wide range of finance, employee ownership, and business services to help your company grow and flourish. With thirty years of broad business experience, both public and private, we can provide the right solutions to fit all your needs. We work with companies in any phase of their life cycle, across all industries, with company boards and with any level of management or staff.
With extensive financial planning and analysis experience, we can help you identify key performance indicators, build a dashboard and analyze pertinent information to help lower costs and improve profitability. We can help you forecast and plan to see what tomorrow will look like so you can make better decisions today.
Nothing has an impact on company culture like employee ownership! If your company is employee owned, or thinking about becoming employee owned, we can help you develop communication and education tools, review/improve the administration of the stock program and analyze ownership transition. We can also help with valuing your company stock.
Are acquisitions part of your company’s growth plans? We can help with that by providing help with due diligence, valuation and pro-forma modeling. Do you need Corporate Owned Life Insurance (COLI) to cover the repurchase liability for your largest shareholders? We can help analyze your needs and select the right insurance. Do you have treasury needs? We can help analyze your current treasury needs and find the best solutions.
Whether you need help with financial planning and analysis, employee ownership or a trusted partner that can assist you with various aspects of your business please contact us today. We are here to listen and to help you and your business.
Our Purpose and Core Values
Purpose
Using our experience and expertise to work with clients to develop the right solutions with passion and a positive attitude.
Core Values
- S – Stability – you can lean on us as a resource
- T – Trust – we will work hard to earn and keep your trust
- E – Excellence – you will be treated with the utmost respect
- P – Personal – you will be treated as part of our family from day one
- U – Understanding – we will take the time to get to know you and your business intimately
- P – Positive Attitude – nothing is too big or small for us to accomplish together
Our core values are on display each and every day, helping make the world a better place and providing our clients with an experience that is a STEP UP!
Purpose
Core Values
Purpose
Core Values
Purpose
Using our experience and expertise to work with clients to develop the right solutions with passion and a positive attitude.
Purpose
Using our experience and expertise to work with clients to develop the right solutions with passion and a positive attitude.
Core Values
- S - Stability
- T - Trust
- E - Excellence
- P - Personal
- U - Understanding
- P - Positive Attitude
Our core values are on display each and every day, helping make the world a better place and providing our clients with an experience that is a STEP UP!
Leadership Team
Doug Eisenbrandt, MBA is the founder and owner of Step Up Solutions, LLC. Doug has 25+ years of experience in business. Doug started out working for regional banks in southwest Michigan then joined the corporate finance team for a $1B public IT Services firm in Detroit, Michigan. He broadened his experience to include M&A, stock/bond buybacks, stock option/employee stock purchase plans, and Investor Relations after joining a $1B public IT Services firm in Denver, Colorado.
After 17 years working for public companies, Doug joined a private, employee-owned engineering and architecture firm, headquartered in Denver, Colorado. There he administered the stock programs, focusing on ownership transition and the sustainability of employee ownership, and managed the Treasury and FP&A departments. Doug also served as Chairman of the internal Trustee and Stock Committees.
In 2021, Doug was featured in a PBS documentary on employee ownership. He has written articles on employee ownership as well as presented at a national conference on employee ownership.
Doug is committed to learning your business needs and finding ways to improve your processes and procedures while improving your bottom line. He can pull from a wealth of experience, across different industries and company sizes, to find the solutions you need.
Step Up Distinction
With over 25 years of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), we can build a budget model from scratch and then integrate with forecasting and analysis models to allow you one platform to see all your key financial information and create the processes to analyze, review and approve in a cohesive, efficient manner.
We have experience analyzing, administering, communicating and educating everyone in your company, from the board of directors to each rank and file employee owner, about the power and profitability of employee ownership.
From up front due diligence to post closing integration services, Step Up can help your M&A strategy run smoothly and efficiently, allowing you time to focus on how best to run the combined businesses and make sure the acquisition is accretive on day one.
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