The Whole PIE System™ for Business Owners

The Whole PIE System™ is a simple but highly effective small business management structure that helps business owners break the cycle of frustration, inefficiency, and unmet objectives, so that you can achieve more of your goals and get more of the results you want in your business, faster.

Our unique "triple-bottom line" approach focuses on helping your business generate more PROFIT, create more IMPACT in the communities you serve, and become more ENJOYABLE to build, lead, and manage.

If you're a business owner, the Whole PIE System™ will help you:

  • Run your business more efficiently
  • Find more time in your week
  • Implement simple but powerful action plans to get results faster
  • Run effective, laser-focused meetings
  • Be more focused, disciplined and accountable
  • Resolve recurring problems once and for all
  • Simplify decision-making
  • Identify and monitor key business metrics
  • Clarify core processes
  • Easily and effectively evaluate your people
  • Manage change and make it stick
  • Utimately, generate more profit, impact and enjoyment in your business

The System can be implemented into any small business, in bite-sized chunks. We’ll start by assessing your current state and end with the Whole PIE System™ in place.


  • As the Director of Operations for a successful hockey academy in Fredericton, NB I had the privilege of working with Andy Clark while our business was expanding. There were many unanswered questions that were on the table that my partners and I needed direction with, and Andy certainly did not disappoint. His timely responses, professional demeanour and courteous interactions with my team made what could have been a very difficult endeavour seamless. I would highly recommend his services to anyone searching for a combination of quality and excellence.
    JAMIE MORRISON, Director of Operations
    Champions Hockey Academy
  • Working with Andy has helped me to achieve growth in my business and to be more structured in my day to day focus. I have implemented many of the tools from the Whole PIE System and using the Key Data Tracker on a weekly basis has made me more accountable and as a result I have my fingers on the pulse of my business. This has contributed to helping me achieve many of my goals both professionally and personally! Thank you Andy!
    JIM COOPER, Franchise Owner
    Nutrilawn
  • One of the biggest outcomes of working with Andy and implementing the Whole PIE System into my business was how setting big goals around the impact I wanted to make with my business ended up being the catalyst to achieving more sales and profit growth. I didn’t see that coming, but was happy it did!
    DAVE VEALE, Founder & CEO
    Vision Coaching Inc.
  • Andy brings a real sense of simplicity and calm to our every day work life. With his Whole PIE System and way of thinking it really breaks things down in bite-size pieces and makes it easy to understand and to form a plan giving business owners a lot of great traction to help grow and move forward. I see myself and my company The GJV Group working with Andy for a very long time.
    GERRY VAUTOUR, CEO
    The GJV Group of Companies
  • Since we implemented elements of the Whole PIE System into our business, we are on track to have our best year ever. The System not only helped us establish the key objectives and metrics for our family business, it helped us set up an accountability structure that forces us to stay focused and on track. I recommend Clarkie Consulting and the Whole PIE System to any small business looking to grow.
    RICHARD MCGUIGAN, Founder
    Chestnut Building Solutions
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    Andy provided business consulting services and helped me create our company’s Purpose and Vision Statements, as well as our Core Values and Operating Principles. I enjoyed how Andy challenged me when needed and asked questions to bring more content into the discussions. He has all the tools and experience needed to help a business owner walk through an area of their business that they have never done before. I am very pleased with the outcome from this project and I am excited to work with him again in the future.
    GAELENE WOOTTON, CEO
    Level Up Recruiting Inc.
  • Thanks for your guidance and insight over the past 12 weeks.  It was really appreciated and I am confident I will continue to put the Whole PIE System to great use. I will certainly recommend you to others.
    MARK LEBLANC, Principal & Broker
    Partners Global Commercial Real Estate
  • Working with Clarkie Consulting was awesome.  Our team learned a ton, we developed some great materials for our marketing package and ultimately that has led to new business, with higher paying clients, I don’t feel we could have secured otherwise!

    ANSON DARVILLE, President
    RETAIN Property Management
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    The Whole PIE System helped us establish goals, key priorities, and action steps that align with our company’s purpose and core values. It also helped us implement the data-driven accountability structure we needed to keep us focused and on track to reaching our goals. Andy knows his stuff. We look forward to working with Andy and Clarkie Consulting as we continue to grow our business.  
    SCOTT GIANNOU, President
    Higher Talent Inc.
  • Andy worked with me to develop a strategic plan for my business. I've done strategic planning (on my own or with a consultant) many times during the 17 years I've owned my own company, but I've never been happy with the results. Andy helped me dig deep to uncover a vision, purpose and core values for the company that I finally feel good about. I love that the plan he helped me create is realistic and measurable, but it also focuses on more than just profit goals. The plan also captures community impact and my enjoyment, which are so important to long-term fulfillment and success.


There are two essential and equally important elements of the Whole PIE System™: The FOUNDATION and the FLYWHEEL. We will help you build both of these into your business.



THE FOUNDATION: Increase efficiency by aligning the 4Ps of your business

Purpose:

What are you trying to accomplish and why?

  • Purpose Statement
  • Vision Statement
  • Core Values

Process:

How can you systematize doing what you do?

  • Core Functions
  • Key Processes
  • Simplified Operating Manual

Planning:

What is the roadmap that will get you there?

  • 3-Year Plan
  • 1-Year Plan
  • Quarterly Picture

People:

Who do you need to help you get there?

  • Functional Accountability Chart
  • Right People
  • Right Seats

THE FLYWHEEL: Drive results with data-driven accountability

1. Ownership of Strategic Goals

  • Key building blocks assigned to one person only
  • On track or off track

2. Identify and Measure Key Data

  • The key metrics that give you the pulse of your business
  • The Key Data Tracker
  • Weekly / monthly

3. Effective Problem-Solving System

  • Parking lot for your issues, problems and opportunities
  • “Give some PDA to your IPOs”

4. Structured Meeting Cadence

  • Weekly – 90 minutes – same time same place
  • Quarterly – full day
  • Annually – 2 days

The Whole PIE Pathway™: The step-by-step process you'll follow to move from your current state to getting the Whole PIE

  • Assess Current State
  • Clarify Vision & Mission
  • Clarify & Test Core Values
  • Create 1 page 90-day Plan
  • Create 1 page 1-Year Plan
  • Create 1 page 3-Year Plan
  • Identify & Track Key Data
  • Identify & Resolve Recurring Problems
  • Implement Weekly Meeting Cadence
  • Evaluate if Right People are in Right Seats
  • Clarify & Document Key Processes
  • Identify Core Functions
  • Manage Change & Make it Stick
  • Quarterly and Annual Review & Planning
  • The Whole PIE

The Whole PIE System™ includes 18 practical business-building tools to help you get results faster.

Four of these tools are the cornerstones of the System. These four tools alone, if implemented and used weekly in your business, will increase your focus and efficiency and help you get better results (while enjoying the process of doing so):

  • The Big Picture™
  • The Quarterly Picture™
  • The Key Data Tracker™
  • The 6-Item Meeting Agenda™

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