About Me
Hello, My Name is…
Derek “DL” Harris
Small Business & Fleet Owners hire me to CLEAN UP their BOOKS, INCREASE their PROFITS, and REDUCE their COSTS & TAXES so they can live the lives of their Dreams.
How do I do that?
As a Strategic Advisor, Management Consultant, Tax Professional and Licensed in Income & Asset Protection, my work focuses at the intersection between RESCUE, TURN-AROUND, GROWTH, and SCALE.
I primarily provide Fresh Ideas, Strategies, Tools and Resources that lead to BREAKTHROUGH RESULTS!
My Story…
Over 30 years ago, my career began by building a 1-vehicle transportation company into a multi-fleet, multi-million dollar regional operation through laboring 12-16 hour days, six to seven days a week. However, in the early stages of the Great Recession, I lost it all…IT TOOK MY LUNCH!!!
After the dust settled, I joined the corporate world filling various executive roles in business development, operations, and eventually management consulting. All while grinding hard and enduring grueling hours, I was on my way-quickly becoming a rising star, only to be laid flat by other failing companies in a rapidly sinking economy again, and again, and again.
Yes. This happened three times!
That’s when I knew I had to find and/or develop a better way–recession-proof business frameworks with partnerships and resources that promote major breakthroughs for business stakeholders, investors, and aspiring entrepreneurs.
Today, I am Managing Partner with Sirius360.consulting, which powers a host of services and resources for those very same aspiring entrepreneurs like I once was some 30 years ago.
My Team
We’ve poured hundreds of hours, thousands of dollars, and enlisted a super-smart team of Consultants, Analysts, Financial Planners, CPAs, EAs, Researchers and other Financial Geniuses to build systems and key resources to solve problems and exploit big opportunities like you may be facing in your business right now.
We’re an accounting, management consulting, insurance, and tax organization rolled into one efficient & effective network. We’re a distributed team of professionals which means most of us work remotely and are from all over the country where most of our clients are. We know first-hand the business challenges we’re working to resolve for our customers and clients. We’re a small & lean group, but experienced, professional and resourceful.
Most of us have either started our own businesses, sold successful companies (from the accounting, management, strategy and/or taxation spaces), been part of IPO’s, worked at fortune 500s and a few of us have even worked in your industry.
We’ve built a team that “get’s it”. Life can be diverse & complex and there are parts that aren’t so easy or fun. That’s why we’re here to help Businesses and Families like yours.
My Life (in a few pictures)…
