Business Coaching and Consulting, Inc. grew out of Tom Nugent's passion to help business owners/leaders while he was a partner in a Seattle-based Mergers and Acquisitions firm. He has provided coaching and consulting services to leaders of small, medium and large businesses across numerous industries over the past 20 years. Tom's previous experience includes serving as an executive in a division of a Fortune 100 company with national marketing and sales responsibility.

One of his specialties is helping leaders and their teams become customer-driven organizations resulting in higher customer service, fulfilled employees, improved processes, and higher profits/reduced budgets. He is a Strategic Business Partner at Profiles International, Inc, where he has had extensive training and coaching in the use of the PXT Total Person Assessment to help clients with hiring, succession planning and teaming. He utilizes successful case studies in conjunction with a proven teaming structure to help clients learn and become Real Teams in support of their shared purpose of creating loyal customers.

Tom was certified as a business coach with the National Association of Business Coaches and has a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington. He served 7 years as Chairman of the Board of Washington State DECA, an organization comprised of over 10,000 student members and 100's of dedicated business and marketing teachers.