Starcast Join the waitlist
The Joe Jaap Podcast

The Joe Jaap Podcast

The Hard Decisions Behind Scale: Chris Hessler on People, Focus, and Advice

Sep 30, 2026 · 40m

Coming soon to iPhone. Already have it? “Listen in Starcast” takes you straight there.

On this episode

About this episode

The people and decisions that get a business to one stage may not be the ones that take it to the next. In this ScaleCraft episode of The Joe Jaap Podcast, Joe Jaap talks with Chris Hessler, founder and CEO of The Advisory Bench, about what changes as a company grows and why even experienced CEOs need perspectives beyond their own. Chris shares how his first advisory board helped him build a business around a U.S. Postal Service contract. Years later, that board challenged him to stop i...