Chuck Violand

Chuck Violand is the founder and principal of Violand Management Associates, LLC, a consulting company working internationally throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia. Established in 1987, the company’s focus has been on small businesses with a concentration in the trades and in the cleaning and disaster restoration industries.

Chuck is a respected authority on the unique challenges faced by entrepreneurial small businesses, having served as both a business consultant and an executive coach to hundreds of companies throughout his career. He is a sought-after speaker who has presented to tens of thousands of attendees at conventions and trade shows throughout the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

Since 1993, Chuck has been a featured writer for multiple trade publications serving the cleaning and disaster restoration industries. They include Cleanfax magazine, Western Cleantalk magazine, Professional Cleaning Journal, and Cleaning & Restoration (C&R) Magazine where he twice won the prestigious Patricia L. Harman Golden Quill Award which recognizes the best article published in C&R during the previous year.

Along with the above, Chuck pens a weekly leadership series, Monday Morning Notes, that has run faithfully since 2003 and has authored two booklets on the inner workings of small businesses: Overcoming Stage 2 Stall, and The Inner Game of Business. His first book, The Entrepreneurial Conspiracy, was published in 2021.