Mike Bell
Mike Bell is a retired United States Navy Chief Petty Officer — one of the most leadership-intensive roles in the U.S. military. As a Navy Career Counselor, he ran the career-development program across multiple command levels — from large commands maintaining a fighting force to unit commanders aboard ship — hands-on with sailors' careers and their futures. For Mike, leadership was always career development.
He carried that into the civilian arena and kept doing the same thing: penetrating markets and building relationships. He identified and built a portfolio of industrial outdoor storage sites in the Dallas–Fort Worth market that he continues to grow today — working off-market, direct-to-seller — across years that also spanned recruiting, wholesaling, and business development for government contracting. Parking lots to storage yards to homes to GovCon: the lane changes, the skill doesn't.
Mike knows how to sell. He knows how to penetrate a market. And most importantly, he knows how to create value and build relationships that last. He wrote it down as twelve principles, turned it into a book — The Value Doctrine — and compressed it into the Engine your team installs.
"I started from a deficit. Not from nothing — from less than nothing. A kid used to his stomach touching his back. That's who built this."
— Mike Bell