KRJ Consulting, LLC

KRJ Consulting, LLC Integrated workforce solutions that help companies and their people become more committed to improve

KRJ Consulting helps companies and their people become more committed to improve performance, empowered to effect desired changes, and prepared for the journey ahead. Our tailored training, coaching, and consulting services help companies and people improve productivity, embrace changes and challenges, and effect desired outcomes. We take a holistic view of every situation to develop comprehensive strategies and tactics that not only help you meet today’s challenges, but also prepare you for tomorrow. Whether you’re managing your career, leading a team, or running a business, we give you the insights and tools that enable you to reach higher and achieve more.

New national data is out on small business in 2026, and it tells a story a lot of owners will recognize.The good news: e...
09/11/2026

New national data is out on small business in 2026, and it tells a story a lot of owners will recognize.

The good news: entrepreneurship is thriving. Over half a million new business applications were filed in a single month, and nearly 40 percent of microbusiness owners say they're optimistic about the future.

The harder news: only 42 percent of applicants got the full financing they asked for. Rising costs and tariffs are squeezing margins. And the SBA's long-standing statistic still holds true, 8 in 10 small businesses fail within five years.

Why hasn't that number moved even in a strong formation year?

Because running a business takes more than expertise and hustle. That's only 35 percent of it. The other 65 percent, the financial systems, the capital readiness, the operations behind the scenes, is the part almost nobody gets taught, and it's exactly where this year's numbers point.

We break down what the 2026 data really means for small business owners, and how to tell where your own gap might be, in our newest blog post: https://www.krjconsulting.com/resource/small-business-failure-statistics-2026/

If any of this sounds familiar, rising costs eating your margin, growth that isn't turning into profit, a financing conversation that didn't go the way you hoped, tell us in the comments. What's the part of the business that nobody prepared you for?

Honoring the Work Behind the WorkLabor Day asks us to pause and honor something simple but easy to overlook: work itself...
09/08/2026

Honoring the Work Behind the Work

Labor Day asks us to pause and honor something simple but easy to overlook: work itself, and the people who show up to do it well.

At KRJC, this year has been a story told in stages. We started by learning to Engage, showing up fully present for the people and challenges in front of us. That engagement opened the door to Enlighten, the willingness to keep learning, to ask better questions, and to see old problems in new light. This quarter, we've been living in Empower, because insight means little until it's put into someone's hands and trusted to do something with it. And now, as September brings our theme of Innovation, we're reminded that empowerment breeds innovation.

When people are trusted with real ownership, they don't just complete the work. They improve it.

That progression, Engage, Enlighten, Empower, and soon Synergy, isn't just a content calendar. It's a description of how meaningful work actually happens.

Nobody builds something worthwhile alone. It takes people who show up, who keep growing, who empower each other, and who eventually find that their separate efforts add up to something greater than any one of them could have built alone.

That's the story of labor, in any field. It's rarely glamorous in the moment. It's early mornings, hard conversations, second drafts, and problems solved quietly before anyone notices there was a problem at all. But it adds up. It becomes a company, a community, a career, a legacy.

So today, we're grateful for the work and for everyone doing it, whether that's behind a desk, on a job site, running a household, or building something entirely their own. Rest well. You've earned it. And as September continues, we'll be right there with you, ready to turn that rest into renewed energy and empowerment into innovation.

Happy Labor Day, from all of us at KRJ Consulting.

What does the 65% Gap actually look like inside a real business?We worked with an established organization that had buil...
09/04/2026

What does the 65% Gap actually look like inside a real business?

We worked with an established organization that had built a great reputation and served its clients well. But as it moved into a new stage of growth, cracks started to show. Financial visibility was thin. Processes lived with a few key people instead of documented systems. Decisions that used to happen informally suddenly needed real structure.

None of that meant the business was failing. It meant the business had outgrown the systems that helped build it in the first place.

Here's how we helped them close the gap, and what it looked like along the way: https://www.krjconsulting.com/insights/case-studies/35-65-clinic-case-study/

09/03/2026

Here's a truth that changes how you show up under pressure: a trigger doesn't decide what happens next. You do.

Triggers only control you when you surrender choice. The moment you feel that push, whether it is a word, a situation, or a person, there is a pause available to you. That pause is where your power lives.

This week, try catching that pause before you react. It might be the smallest, most powerful shift you make all month.

What's a trigger you've learned to pause before reacting to? Tell us in the comments.

Gartner predicts that by 2030, AI will handle 80% of the tasks project managers do today: data entry, status updates, re...
09/02/2026

Gartner predicts that by 2030, AI will handle 80% of the tasks project managers do today: data entry, status updates, reporting, the works.

Here's the part that gets missed: that doesn't mean project management is disappearing. It means the busywork is, and what's left is the part that actually matters: judgment, trust, and the ability to keep a project on track when things go sideways.

Question for the PMOs and project leads in our network: if the admin work vanished tomorrow, what would you want your team spending that time on instead?

Read the full breakdown and see how KRJC is helping organizations prepare: https://www.krjconsulting.com/resource/80-percent-project-management-ai/

Talent gets you in the door. It's not what keeps the doors open.We've worked with skilled professionals, tradespeople, a...
08/28/2026

Talent gets you in the door. It's not what keeps the doors open.

We've worked with skilled professionals, tradespeople, and founders who built something out of nothing because they were simply that good at what they do. Almost every time, what put them at risk wasn't a lack of skill. It was everything underneath it that nobody ever taught them to build.

That's the 35/65 Rule™: your expertise is about 35% of the equation. The other 65% is the financial systems, processes, and leadership capacity that decide if a business can scale, or stalls out under its own growth.

If you're doing $250K+ in revenue and feel like you're carrying the whole business on your back, this one's for you. And if you know someone in that spot, tag them below.

Learn the Rule: https://www.krjconsulting.com/the-35-65-rule/

08/27/2026

Here's a question worth sitting with this week: what would change if you paused for just one extra second before responding?

Not because you need the perfect answer. Because that pause is where you stop reacting and start choosing.

Watch this video and let us know: where in your week could you use more pause and less react?

When historic federal investment creates new opportunities, the real challenge is access.KRJC worked with a federal tran...
08/26/2026

When historic federal investment creates new opportunities, the real challenge is access.

KRJC worked with a federal transportation agency to research the barriers keeping small businesses from participating in transportation contracting and emerging markets, then helped build the strategy and programs to close those gaps.

The engagement grew from a research project into a multi-year partnership covering strategic planning, program development, and hands-on implementation, including an entrepreneurship curriculum tested through a pilot program.

What does your organization do to make sure opportunity reaches the businesses who need it most?

Read the full story: https://www.krjconsulting.com/insights/case-studies/usdot-case-study/

08/21/2026

Ever notice how the same conversation can feel completely different depending on the day?

Same words. Same people. Different outcome.

More often than not, what changed was not the conversation. It was the energy you brought into it.

Energy mastery is the foundation of emotional intelligence. Before you can manage how you respond to others, you have to manage the state you show up in. Leaders transfer energy whether they mean to or not, and that energy shapes how their team experiences every meeting, every deadline, every hard conversation.

So here is a simple practice worth trying this week: before your next big conversation, pause and ask yourself what energy you are about to bring into the room.

What is one situation where you have noticed your energy changing the outcome of a conversation?

08/14/2026

Did you catch Karen's conversation on Intentionality with Dominique yet?

She sat down with host Dominique Simpson-Milton, sponsored by the Carolinas-Virginia Minority Supplier Development Council, and got real about the mistake she sees entrepreneurs make over and over: not knowing their numbers.

Karen's take? Metrics create clarity. Without them, improvement is just guesswork.

She also opened up about getting laid off after 23 years in banking, the moment she realized she had become the bottleneck in her own growing business, and why she built The Synerverse because she believes entrepreneurship should not be a lonely road.

Watch the full episode here: https://rvasbn.com/supplier-diversity/intentionality-with-dominique-featuring-karen-jenkins-of-krj-consulting-llc/

Are you making decisions based on facts, or assumptions? Tell us in the comments.

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