Senior practitioners in the Haus.
Velocity Haus is a small group of operators, sellers, trainers, and instructional designers. Each of us runs our own practice. We come together when the work calls for the full Haus.
A working collective, not a firm.
Each member runs an independent practice. We come together when an engagement asks for more than one of us.
When the full Haus shows up, a team gets coaching, selling, design, and development from people who have done all four.
We are based in Cleveland. We work nationally. We show up in person when it matters.
Four things, done seriously.
Most engagements braid these together. Here is how the work shows up.
Leadership Development
Cohorts that meet for months, run by senior practitioners who have carried a P&L. We develop managers who hold the standard — not just maintain the schedule.
Change Management
Restructures, new operating models, leadership transitions. We help organizations move from one shape to the next without losing the people who matter or the standard that earned them.
Operational AI Adoption
Help leadership teams adopt AI without drama. Pick the workflows worth automating. Deploy tools the front line will actually use. Build the judgment to manage what AI can’t.
Sales Enablement
Sellers learn from sellers. We coach revenue teams using the MIQL framework. Pipeline reviews that hold up. Coaching cadences your managers will run after we’re gone.
Five practitioners. One Haus.
Each runs their own practice. We come together when an engagement asks for more than one of us.
Michael Walker
Founder · Author, MIQLRevenue operator turned author. Built and led commercial functions through scale, distress, and exit. Wrote The Cost of Fiction — the case for ending forecast theater.
Michael leads our revenue and leadership engagements, and is the architect of the MIQL operating system that anchors our coaching practice.
25+ years · Author, MIQL
Tyler Kohrt
Startup Founder · MentorFounder, mentor, and Venture for America alum. Tyler works with early-stage and mid-market revenue teams on the operating side — the part that depends on what actually gets done.
He partners on cohort design, founder coaching, and the kind of plain talk that gets a team unstuck.
VFA Alum · Greater Cleveland
Kimberly Sharkey
Global Revenue EnablementGlobal revenue enablement leader with deep instructional design chops. Kim has built enablement programs that survived the leader who built them — the rarest measure that matters.
She leads our curriculum work and any engagement where the answer is “we need to teach this so it sticks.”
Cleveland, OH
Harrison Gilmer, MSP
Sales Trainer · EntrepreneurEntrepreneur, sales professional, and trainer. Harrison runs the seller-development side of the practice — the actual coaching of actual reps in actual deals.
He facilitates our manager cohorts and leads the coaching cadence design that follows.
Greater Cleveland
Shane Winnyk
Operations · SystemsBuilds the systems that make the practice run — from the publishing infrastructure behind the MIQL book to the tooling that holds our cohorts together.
Co-founder of For Granted. Active in the Cleveland AI and civic tech community.
Cleveland, OHHow we work.
These are not aspirations. They are the operating constraints that decide whether we take an engagement.
Senior people do the work.
The names you meet in the pitch are the names doing the work. If we can’t staff it that way, we don’t take it.
A boutique by design.
We keep the practice small on purpose. New engagements come in through a waitlist, which protects the depth of attention every client receives.
Train-the-trainer is the goal.
Curriculum, facilitator guides, evaluation instruments, sustainability playbook — we hand it over. Your team should run the work without us. That’s the win.
Local, in person, on purpose.
Our team is rooted in Northeast Ohio. We show up. We’re with you when the work gets hard. Being local isn’t a marketing line — it’s how the practice is built.
If you’re building something that has to work — not look good in a slide — we should talk.
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