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About Us
At Profit Soup we help independent business owners increase profit and enjoy more of the rewards of business ownership through a process of goal setting and accountability. Our talented team includes experts in finance, franchising, business consulting, financial benchmarking, training and communication. We will take you beyond the theory to implement actions that deliver results.
BARBARA (CARPER) Nuss
Barbara is president and founder of Profit Soup. Her main focus is on helping our clients gather and use information to build value in their business.
Barb’s management and CPA background along with her years of experience working with industry leaders in franchising and trade associations have enabled her to build and implement maximum value benchmark initiatives. She is skilled at analyzing and presenting financial information so her clients can use it to learn from the past to set direction for the future.
Barbara is a sought after presenter, trainer and facilitator. She has a special talent for making financial topics clear and entertaining and for demonstrating that finance really can be fun!
Barbara operates primarily from our offices in Seattle, but travels frequently to facilitate training sessions for our clients in Australia and throughout North America.
steve abercrombie
steve.abercrombie@profitsoup.com
Steve brings passion and
personality to company financial strategies. His life experiences as a
banker, financial educator and business owner have shown him that having
financial knowledge of your business model is in many cases the absolute
key to success. His clients all say that Steve excels at taking the
mystery out of the numbers
with his common-sense approach and
always-compassionate personal style.
He has a talent for rallying the troops behind improvement initiatives by organizing, understanding and appropriately communicating the financial story of the business to the management team and key staff. Then he integrates this connection to financial success with ongoing structure and support around company goals and strategic steps. With key players aligned and focused, everybody accomplishes more.
Steve has helped many clients prepare their businesses for the financial scrutiny of lenders and investors when financial restructuring or expansion is imminent. He understands the language of lending from his years in banking, where he has held roles from branch manager and lender to bank President and CEO. As President and principal of a leading financial training company, he mastered business expansion from the other side of the desk – with the perspective of owner and rain maker. He gained notoriety as a sought-after convention speaker for graduate schools of banking, corporations and associations throughout the US, Australia and England.
As the “most seasoned” member of the Profit Soup team, Steve recently came partially out of retirement. He works with only a select group of clients so he can maintain a balance between the satisfaction of professional challenge and his devotion to his family.
Doug Ramm
Doug is our Business Analyst and Systems Architect at Profit
Soup bringing his tech-savvy skills to the table for anything and
everything IT related within the company.
His wide-range of previous experience supporting small to large
Seattle businesses makes him a perfect fit for the Profit
Soup team.
Some of his business areas of focus include database & reporting analysis, Crystal Reports design, web page updates, and technical documentation.
Doug’s ability to interpret internal and external customer requirements and translate them into a finalized product for tracking data is one of the keys to his success.
Doug is originally from Seattle and is a music enthusiast as well as an accomplished guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
Lauren owen
lauren.owen@profitsoup.com or lauren@redpointcoaching.com
Lauren is an inspiring business coach and
facilitator who specializes in helping closely held businesses,
particularly family businesses, achieve successful ownership transitions
and effective teams within their companies. 
Lauren has successfully launched peer groups inside several major franchise organizations, trade associations, and industry groups. She is also an experienced facilitator for industry peer performance groups. She has designed and delivered numerous facilitator training programs.
Her 25+ years of experience in this area across diverse industries has given Lauren keen insights into the critical factors required for superior company performance and successful successions.
Lauren's homebase is in Seattle, however she has worked with clients across North America and Australia. She enjoys travel, yoga, and exploring new cultures in her spare time.
Urs koenig
urs.koenig@profitsoup.com or urs@redpointcoaching.com
Urs helps business owners find discipline, focus, and
commitment, directing their energy to achieving their goals. His training as
an endurance cyclist, cross-country skier and iron man triathlete gives him
unique insights into self-motivation.
His
enthusiasm for personal accomplishment is both refreshing and motivating.
Urs is adept at coaching business leaders in both peer group and one-on-one formats, helping them to clarify their personal and business priorities and get proactive at driving change in their organizartions.
In addition to his one-on-one consulting and executive coaching with
clients, Urs has helped to develop tomorrow’s business leaders through
his work with the Small Business Administration and as adjunct professor
at Seattle University, Victoria University of Technology (Melbourne,
Australia), and the University of Zurich. He is a certified executive
coach and has schooled extensively in the discipline of leadership
coaching. He originally hails from Switzerland where he earned his
doctorate of philosophy (PhD) from the University of Zurich.
TESS WITTLER
Tess is our copywriting guru and storyteller. Her focus is to give
your visions a voice. Her writing specialties
include articles, reports, newsletters, case studies,
and white papers.
She has significant expertise in the building and construction industry from her years of experience with the Pennsylvania Builders Association and the Building Industry Association of Lancaster County.
Whether she's preparing a special report or a presentation, Tess
researches the issue, extracts your knowledge and the key points, and
turns what she learns into what you need to make your business stronger
and more profitable.
She frequently supports the Profit Soup team by interviewing successful business owners to discover insight into their best practices – uncovering those tidbits that have made them great.