Grow & Sustain Profit Without Losing Your Soul
Personalized Business-with-Soul Counsel
Do you want to grow an enterprise without losing your soul?
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Don't let the value you're working hard to create slip away, culturally or financially. Go beyond short-sighted "maximizing" of profit and instead optimize your impact and income with personalized business-with-soul counsel based on our Better Capitalism™ ethics of enough + mutuality.
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Address current concerns
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And/or equip the next generation to lead with good profitability and a meaningful ethos
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Schedule your free 30-minute call to assess if we are a mutually beneficial fit for you.
ABOUT US
Paul Knowlton, JD, MDiv and Aaron Hedges, MBA, MDiv have training and experience with one foot squarely in the world of business and the other squarely in the world of faith. We find that these two communities can be bridged for the immense benefit of both. This bridging has greatly benefited us and those we have led in our interdisciplinary roles of entrepreneur, business owner, minister, Director, Partner, COO, and CEO, as well as our biggest roles of husband and dad.
Our book Better Capitalism was an Amazon #1 New Release in 2021 and in 2022 reached #1 in Law Ethics & Professional Responsibility on Kindle.
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We have spoken, published, and consulted with universities and organizations in California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin, as well as Melbourne, Australia.
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Contact us about speaking engagements and consulting.
Options and Rates
​Rates are all-inclusive and based on project completion—no hourly billing, no extra fees.
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Standard rate per completed project: $15,200
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Discounted rate per completed project for start-ups, schools, charities, ministries: $8,600
The deliverable is individualized communication and guidance and/or presentations to team / board / staff / stakeholders.
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Matters in our wheelhouse include strategy and ethics for growing your business without losing your soul, leadership transitions / succession planning, navigating change / transition / endings, conflict resolution, negotiating, people issues, troubleshooting high-stakes situations.​
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Next level: If, instead of counsel that equips you, what you really want is someone else to take the matter off your plate altogether and just handle it, we can do this with one or two clients at a time. Rates start at $42,000/month, and we will not take on more than two clients simultaneously for this intensive service.
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Not sure? You can keep wondering "what if...," or you can try a no-cost call then make an informed decision.
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"[Better Capitalism] has a lot to recommend it. It brings the 'real Adam Smith'—the moral philosopher and economist—into the conversation on faith, economics, and business ethics. ... Their discussion of Rand is a unique, overdue, and valuable contribution. ... They are also frank and open about how Better Capitalism is an effort to start a dialogue, not end it. ... Better Capitalism is a sincere search for a better world."
—Cato Institute review by Dr. Art Carden, Senior Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research
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“This book plunges the reader right into the interface of theology (faith) and economics, exactly where thoughtful, responsible adults need to be situated in our crisis-marked world. ‘Plantation’ in their usage refers to a winner-take-all economics that exploits others for self-advantage. ‘Partnership’ concerns an economic practice of mutuality that contributes to the common good while attending to one’s own interest. This simple either/or is explored in rich directions including finance, corporations, government, and culture. Along the way we get a healthy rereading of Adam Smith and Ayn Rand, away from a privatistic distortion. This book merits close, sustained attention as a compelling move beyond both careless thinking and easy ideology.”
—Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary
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"Better Capitalism is an eloquent and articulate reminder of the importance of understanding economics in the context of our communities, country, and roles as business leaders. In explaining the profound connection between economics and theology, the authors have provided a strong case for the critical need for partnership between business leaders and communities to create a stronger and more robust economy that provides benefit to all."
—Tony Reid, Senior Vice President (retired), Marriott International
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"Better Capitalism is an extraordinary creative achievement, without parallel in the literature of economic and business ethics, Christian or otherwise. One of the things I like most about Better Capitalism is the way it shoots the gap between our current cultural extremes: it is by no means a defense of laissez-faire capitalism but neither is it a socialist manifesto. The book is chock full of fresh and deep research, and this data then informs the book’s realistic, concrete reform proposals that corporate executives, government officials, and everyday people can implement."
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—Rev. Dr. David Gushee, Past President of American Academy of Religion, Past President of Society of Christian Ethics
