By the Book · webinar series

Twelve chapters. One year. A business, rebuilt from the ground up.

A guided, chapter-by-chapter webinar series that follows Jon Colen’s book Grab the Wheel. One live webinar each month, twelve months in a row, from the foundation nobody notices to the quality people trust you to repeat.

2nd Thursday of the month7:30pm CentralJan–Dec 2027Live + recorded
The chapters

Build a business, one chapter at a time.

Each chapter is a live webinar that builds on the last. Buy them one at a time for $150 each, or commit to the full year for $1,500 and save $300.

01

Infrastructure

The foundation nobody notices until it cracks. Building the bones of a business that won't collapse under its own weight.

Thu Jan 14, 2027 · 7:30pm CT
$150
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02

Marketing

Getting the attention of people who don't know they need you yet, and keeping it once you have it.

Thu Feb 11, 2027 · 7:30pm CT
$150
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03

Sales

Where the money actually shows up. The negotiator's mindset, and why closing is a skill you learn, not a gift you're born with.

Thu Mar 11, 2027 · 7:30pm CT
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04

Vendors & Purchasing

The partners you didn't know you'd depend on. Building relationships upstream so you're never caught short downstream.

Thu Apr 8, 2027 · 7:30pm CT
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05

Operations

Turning a promise into a product, on time, at the quality you sold. The engine room between what you buy and what you deliver.

Thu May 13, 2027 · 7:30pm CT
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06

Human Capital

Your people are the business. Hiring, leading, and keeping the humans who make everything else possible.

Thu Jun 10, 2027 · 7:30pm CT
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07

Payroll

The promise you make every two weeks. Why getting this wrong breaks trust faster than almost anything else you do.

Thu Jul 8, 2027 · 7:30pm CT
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08

Accounting & Finance

The numbers that tell the truth, whether you want to hear it or not. Reading your business instead of guessing at it.

Thu Aug 12, 2027 · 7:30pm CT
$150
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09

Information Systems

Process and technology, working together or fighting each other. Lessons from building a system before anyone knew what to call it.

Thu Sep 9, 2027 · 7:30pm CT
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10

Safety

Protecting the people who show up every day to build your dream with you.

Thu Oct 14, 2027 · 7:30pm CT
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11

Project Management

Turning good intentions into finished work, on time and on budget.

Thu Nov 11, 2027 · 7:30pm CT
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12

Quality Management

Doing it right the first time, and building a business people trust to do it again.

Thu Dec 9, 2027 · 7:30pm CT
$150
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Pricing

Buy a chapter, or the whole year.

One chapter at a time

$150 / chapter

  • One live monthly webinar
  • Recording of the chapter
  • Q&A with the host
Choose a chapter
Save $300
The full year

$1,500 / year

  • All 12 live monthly webinars
  • Every chapter recording
  • Priority Q&A access
Get the full year

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Tell us where it’s sliding.

A short intro call to hear what’s going on. If we can help, we’ll tell you how. If we can’t, we’ll tell you that too.