Greg Slamowitz is an entrepreneur, business leader, investor, author, educator, and speaker whose career has been defined by building organizations, developing people, and challenging conventional ideas about leadership.

Early in his career, Slamowitz practiced tax law in New York City after earning a J.D., with distinction, from Emory University School of Law and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law. But entrepreneurship ultimately proved to be his calling. In 1997, he left the practice of law and co-founded Ambrose Employer Group, a professional employer organization serving small and midsize businesses.

What began with approximately $95,000 in capital and no outside funding grew into a nationally recognized company. Ambrose appeared on Crain’s New York lists of fast-growing companies and was recognized as one of the best companies to work for in New York. In 2013, Slamowitz and his partners sold Ambrose to TriNet in a transaction reported at approximately $200 million in cash.

Yet for Slamowitz, the significance of building Ambrose extended beyond its financial success. The experience shaped a deeply held philosophy about leadership: organizations perform best when the people closest to the customer are trusted, empowered, and given a clear understanding of how their work contributes to a larger mission. He developed those principles in his book, Flip the Pyramid: How Any Organization Can Create a Workforce That Is Engaged, Empowered, Aligned and On Fire!, and has subsequently shared them with entrepreneurs, executives, and students around the world.

Slamowitz has continued to build and advise businesses rather than treating the sale of Ambrose as the conclusion of his entrepreneurial career. He founded G. Slamowitz & Company LLC, a family office based in Big Sky, Montana, and has served as an investor, director, and advisor to growing companies. He has also been involved with private-equity-backed organizations, including serving as lead independent board member of TandemHR prior to its sale.

Today, Slamowitz is also the founder and CEO of DesignedBuilt LLC, a business focused on highly customized wood, steel, and glass doors for bespoke residential and ultra-luxury hospitality projects in North America and Europe, with operations connecting Montana and Poland. The venture reflects a recurring theme throughout his career: an enthusiasm for taking complicated businesses, products, and organizations and finding ways to make them exceptional.

Teaching has become another important chapter of Slamowitz’s professional life. He has taught entrepreneurship and business strategy at Montana State University’s Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship and regularly speaks to entrepreneurs and business leaders. His approach combines academic ideas with the perspective of someone who has actually started a company, struggled through its early years, scaled it, built a culture, managed hundreds of employees, and ultimately completed a successful exit.

His involvement in business has also extended into public policy. As a former president of the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations, Slamowitz spent considerable time working with members of Congress and their staffs on issues affecting the PEO industry and American businesses. He played a role in the long effort that culminated in passage of the Small Business Efficiency Act, signed into law in 2014, which provided federal statutory recognition of the PEO business model.

Among his professional recognitions, Slamowitz received an Ernst & Young New York Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the employment-services category in 2001. He has also served on Emory University School of Law’s Dean’s Advisory Board.

Underlying the different stages of Slamowitz’s career is a consistent belief that business can accomplish more than generating financial returns. Great organizations, in his view, create opportunities for employees, take exceptional care of customers, strengthen communities, and give people the chance to do work that matters.

His career has moved from law to entrepreneurship, from building and selling a company to investing, teaching, speaking, and starting again. Rather than defining success by a single transaction or title, Slamowitz’s story is ultimately about continual reinvention, curiosity, and the conviction that meaningful leadership begins by empowering other people to succeed.

Please visit Greg’s website www.gregslamowitz.com and his LinkedIn Profile.

His passions include working with entrepreneurs, engaged cultures, growth companies, golf, skiing, and hiking.