Barry Moltz

Barry Moltz gets small businesses unstuck.

As a small business expert based in Illinois, Barry Moltz helps owners grow by unlocking their long-forgotten potential. With decades of entrepreneurial experience in his own business ventures and consulting for other entrepreneurs, he has discovered the formula to get stuck business owners unstuck and marching forward. Moltz applies simple, strategic steps to facilitate change, covering areas such as sales, marketing, customer service, and finance.

Moltz has founded and run small businesses for more than 20 years, experiencing both significant success and failure. After successfully selling his last operating business, he branched out into various entrepreneurship-related activities. He founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and served as an advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation. Moltz has authored six books, including "You Need to Be A Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business", "Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success", "BAM! Delivering Customer Service in a Self-Service World", "Small Town Rules: How Small Business and Big Brands can Profit in a Connected Economy", "How to Get Unstuck: 25 Ways to Get Your Business Growing Again", and "Small Business Hacks: 100 Shortcuts to Your Success", a #1 release on Amazon.

Moltz is a nationally recognized speaker on small business who has given hundreds of presentations to audiences ranging in size from 20 to 20,000. As a member of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, he has taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has appeared on TV and radio programs such as CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, MSNBC’s Your Business, and NPR’s The Tavis Smiley Show. Additionally, Moltz hosts his own radio show, Business Insanity Talk Radio on AM560, writes regularly for American Express Open Forum and other periodicals, and is involved in virtual keynotes and business strategy discussions. His speaking topics include business performance, customer experience, entrepreneurship, finance, leadership, management, marketing, sales, and social media.