Media
Joe Giacalone is available for select podcasts, interviews and media conversations about entrepreneurship, the skilled trades, leadership, acquisitions, customer service and building businesses that can thrive beyond their founders.
Suggested Interview Topics
BUILDING A BUSINESS THAT DOESN’T DEPEND ON YOU
Why successful founders become bottlenecks and how owners can begin building people, systems and leadership that allow the company to function without them.
HIRING PEOPLE BETTER THAN YOU
Why one of the biggest steps in an entrepreneur’s growth is recognizing what they aren’t great at and surrounding themselves with people who are.
CUSTOMER SERVICE IS STILL A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Why responsiveness, follow-through and never taking clients for granted remain powerful differentiators even in an increasingly automated world.
TURNING A JOB INTO AN ASSET
Why revenue isn’t the same as enterprise value and what separates a business that produces income from one that has meaningful value without its founder.
GROWING THROUGH ACQUISITIONS
What Joe learned evaluating and integrating acquisitions, and why buying a company is only the beginning.
AI, TECHNOLOGY AND THE SKILLED TRADES
How AI and technology can improve service businesses without replacing the human relationships, judgment and execution customers still value.
WHY THE TRADES DESERVE MORE RESPECT
Why blue-collar businesses should be managed with the same sophistication as any other industry and why the skilled trades remain a major entrepreneurial opportunity.
WHY NOT ALL GROWTH IS GOOD GROWTH
Why new markets, acquisitions, customers and revenue only create value when the people and infrastructure can support them.
Recognition from Arch Painting, the company Joe built
Media Bio
Joe Giacalone is an entrepreneur, investor and author of Beyond the Owner. He began painting as a teenager and founded Arch Painting in 1997. What started as a local painting business grew into a nationwide commercial painting company completing thousands of projects across the country.
Over nearly three decades, Joe experienced the challenges that come with growth, including hiring and developing leaders, implementing systems, expanding geographically, managing customer relationships, understanding financial performance, making acquisitions and integrating businesses.
Those experiences shaped Beyond the Owner, his practical guide for entrepreneurs who want to build companies that can scale, create enterprise value and thrive beyond their founders. Today, Joe remains interested in entrepreneurship, investing, acquisitions, the skilled trades and connecting with people building businesses.