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Heightened Leaders Expands after supporting business growth during Pandemic

By: Margie Taylor
| Published 02/14/2022

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THE WOODLANDS, TX -- Heightened Leaders, a local business and coaching firm, has spent the last 24 months helping business owners succeed, despite high employee turnover and turbulent business environments.

Megan Alarid, founder of Heightened Leaders helped explain, “When March of 2020 hit, a lot of our clients didn’t know what to do at first, like so many others, but we dove in and helped them identify threats and opportunities. Together we established a plan of action, and our clients executed those plans. We are happy to report that all our clients won the year in 2021. They not only survived the current environment, but many of them have built stronger businesses than they had pre-2020, and that feels good.”

We had a chance to interview Stuart Lapp, a partner of a well-respected Law Firm with two offices in the area and 15 active attorneys. They have been working with Megan for a few years now.

Stuart recalled how he first found out about Heightened Leaders “I was first introduced to Megan while serving on the board of directors of the Woodlands Area Chamber of Commerce, The Chamber brought Megan in to follow her program. In my engagement with Megan through the Chamber, I felt like she could help our firm and thought it was something that we would really benefit from.”

Stuart continued “I joined this firm in September 2015, and in the few years that I had been here, I felt like we had a lot of potential. We just weren't taking the kind of action and doing the things that we needed to do to maximize that potential, Megan helped us overcome that.”

Following the onset of Covid, Stuart and the team experienced uncertainty for their business.

“We were worried, but she reminded us that we shouldn't be. She would always say, ‘you have this.’ With Megan's consistent presence, calm in the storm, and frequent reminders that we can get through anything, we did. One of my favorite things she said, ‘First things first, and Not everything needs your love.”

Stuart ended our conversation with this, “I tell everybody I know and who will listen that what she's done to change our lives and improve our business is absolutely amazing, fantastic really. I highly recommend this process for every business.”

The Heightened Leaders team enjoyed helping businesses like Stuart’s in 2021, although Megan did have one regret. “The growth we experienced and the businesses we have helped has been amazing and there are still a lot of teams struggling.

Our availability to support new clients quickly vanished, so we had to find other ways to serve the community and open more capacity to continue serving the community.”
Heightened Leaders is currently expanding in two ways to better serve this community in 2022.

Team Expansion

The first step was expanding the Heightened Leaders team. Heightened Leaders brought on Christin Cherry a founder of a nationwide fitness franchise that used the same framework Heightened Leader provides to grow her business. Christin expressed her excitement:

“Working with Megan allowed my business to create a foundation and helped us strategically plan our efforts each quarter. Her process is powerful and allowed us to grow year over year revenue by 100%, each year for 3 years, which was simply amazing. I wanted this for every business I encountered so when Megan approached me about joining the team, it was an easy decision. I am so excited to help other business owners find the relief and results I enjoyed following the same process.”

Adding to the team was just the first step. Heightened Leaders has also created single-day events and more training opportunities that are sure to enrich the entire community. They will be releasing more information about the added services soon.

A New Training Facility

Lastly, the firm is upgrading its training facilities. Heightened Leaders already provides a unique space for leadership teams to plan and achieve their goals and solve their problems. The space that Heightened Leaders is preparing to move into has more space, more tools, and is sure to be the envy of any training center.
“We are finalizing everything now and will release pictures of the new training facility soon,” said Megan. “It is going to be a special place. We can’t wait to reveal the new training studio.”

The community is grateful for Heightened Leaders, and excited to see all the new expansion items come to fruition.

2022 is sure to be an exciting year for business owners, luckily for the North Houston Community, they have Heightened Leaders to turn to for guidance.

If you would like to learn more about Heightened Leaders, please visit www.heightenedleaders.com.

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