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About

Chris Myers, Author of The Fourth Turning Leader

CEO, Founder, Professor.

Chris leads B:Side Capital and B:Side Fund, chairs Main & Machine, and teaches entrepreneurship at ASU. The Fourth Turning Leader is built from twenty years of operating decisions, not consulting frameworks.

Why this exists

This framework is not consulting. It is the practice I built for myself first. Two decades of operating decisions taught me that process fails at the exact moment you need it most: the frozen market, the standard someone is asking you to bend, the call that cannot wait for consensus. What holds in those moments is a code decided in advance.

I run mission-driven SBA lenders through a crisis era that is still arriving in real time, and I am building an AI agency while AI forces the identity questions the Signals section names. A leader running lenders, an agency, and a classroom needs one code across all of it, not three. This one is mine.

The Work

Built from operating decisions, not theory.

The framework comes out of two decades of making real calls under real pressure: running a lender, building companies, and teaching the next generation of founders.

Today

CEO, B:Side Capital & B:Side Fund

Mission-driven SBA lenders operating across the American West. Named the SBA's top 504 lender in Colorado and New Mexico for 2025, $6.5B+ deployed across 5,500+ businesses, leading in the crisis era, in real time.

Read Chris’s letter as B:Side CEO

Today

Founder & Chairman, Main & Machine

An AI development agency for small business: putting the technology forcing this era's hardest identity decisions to work for Main Street, not against it.

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Faculty

ASU · W. P. Carey

Faculty in entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's W. P. Carey School of Business.

View ASU faculty profile and courses

Previously

BodeTree · Yellow Express USA

Founded and operated companies from the ground up: building products, raising capital, and making the day-to-day calls that decide whether a company survives.

Chris also writes at chris-myers.com and publishes The B:Side Way.

Press & Media

Selected appearances.

Chris's work and commentary on leadership and decision-making have appeared across national press. Request the media kit for headshots, book assets, and interview information.

  • Forbes
  • Entrepreneur
  • MSNBC
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • The New York Times
  • Fox Business

Get in touch.

For general questions, media requests, or privacy and data requests, email Chris directly. We reply within two business days.

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The practice Chris built for himself first.