Next-Level Executive

You already have what you need to deliver next-level performance.

It's just buried and lost in all the noise.

When was the last time you had a clear, uninterrupted thought that didn't have to compete with a worry or a notification or a to-do list?

Our ability to deliver next-level results depends on our ability to cut through the complexity and distraction that only continues to infiltrate our worlds.

Next-Level Executive: Become Simpler-Better-Faster in the Pursuit of What Matters Most will propel you forward with the idea that high performance doesn't come from adding more, but from clearing away what no longer serves the mission.

This timely book is a practical, people-smart field guide for executives who want to evolve their performance capability and take themselves and the organizations they lead to the next level.

Readers will come away with a relevant and personal approach to curating their inputs, shedding mental clutter, and creating pure focus on what matters most.

Cut through the mental clutter, reset your operating system, and sharpen your mission focus in the pursuit of your most precious next-level outcomes.

Andy Hooper is the founder of Ever Forward Exec, an executive performance consulting firm. He partners with ambitious executives and teams seeking a people-smart approach to delivering next-level results. His clients span healthcare, technology, consumer goods, and energy, all unified by their pursuit of simpler-better-faster performance.Andy began his career as a Marine Corps Artillery Officer, leading mission-focused teams in complex, uncertain environments, including two deployments to Asia and the Western Pacific.Andy then spent over 20 years as a foundational contributor to a global management consulting firm. There, he designed and delivered large-scale growth initiatives with CEOs and C-level executives, led enterprise client acquisition teams, and pioneered strategic marketing approaches. His leadership impacted global and local teams in some of the world's finest companies.During the global pandemic, Andy served as a commercial operating executive for a manufacturer of medically-essential healthcare products, guiding the organization through massive change while delivering exceptional revenue growth in a supply-constrained market. Andy studied Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania and earned an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He has worked in or visited 35 countries on six continents, as well as 48 US States (he still needs to visit North and South Dakota).When he's not guiding leaders to unlock next-level performance, you'll find Andy road or gravel cycling, hiking New Hampshire's White Mountains, or obsessing over global soccer. He's been married to Susanna for more than half his life and they have two adult children.Ever forward.