Jon Bachura

Jon Bachura describes himself as a professional learner. But over the course of 25 years, he has discovered that earning an honest living as a learner means helping other people apply what is learned together.

Throughout his journey, Jon has worked alongside entrepreneurs and business owners because their companies, colleagues, clients, and communities all depend on how quickly and effectively they can learn and apply new knowledge in the marketplace.

It all started with a pair of Air Jordans and a paper route. At 10 years old, Jon learned discipline by waking up every morning at 4 a.m., regardless of rain, hail, sleet, or snow, to deliver newspapers to 200 neighbors. In the years that followed, he learned to build hot rods with his dad, book tours for local bands, lead national tours, grow entrepreneurship education organizations, and advise family businesses across the country.

Each season shaped the way Jon thinks about leadership, entrepreneurship, learning, and human flourishing. Along the way, he discovered a deep passion for helping people uncover what they are capable of building, leading, and becoming.

More About Jon

Why Acumen?

The entrepreneurial journey is not to be traveled alone. Acumen Teams are a source of rapid and practical learning based in deep trust and relationship built on the solid foundation of faith.

What challenges are CEOs facing today?

1. Understanding that whether they are intentional or not, they are creating culture. Ask yourself, "If archeologists 1000 years from now were digging on the site of your company, what would they know about what you did from what they find?"

2. Time to reflect — both alone, silently or in a journal, and out loud with peers and/or people you trust that can understand and advise them. Think and reflect on things like culture, talent development, social issues and how to impact them, but also predictions of the future, dreams of what good could come, etc.

A Lifelong Learner

Jon has always been drawn to environments where people are learning, building, and growing together. Over time, he realized his deepest passion was not simply teaching. It was learning.

He believes learning is a lifelong mandate that touches every stage of life and leadership.

Learn to be a leader again
Learn to be a wife or husband, a parent, an adult child of an aging family, and an elder
Learn to predict the future by creating it
Learn to honor God with your whole, integrated life
Learn to rest
Learn to work hard
Learn to play and imagine
Learn how to laugh and make others laugh
Learn to focus and help others join your vision

“Knowing this is imperative for everyone, learn to go together.”

On a personal note...

RECHARGING

Jon enjoys the simple rhythms of life and the routines that help him stay grounded. Morning rituals often include studying God’s Word, prayer, tea, stretching, and getting some reps in the gym. Then comes breakfast.

FAVORITE THINGS

Some of Jon’s favorite moments happen at home: working in the kitchen with his wife, digging worms with his son, and riding the buddy bike with his daughter.

BUILDING WHAT LASTS

Some of Jon’s earliest lessons in entrepreneurship and leadership came long before his professional career began. As a teenager, he learned to build hot rods in the garage with his dad and eventually turned that into building them for friends and family.

As his own family grew, Jon became increasingly drawn to family-owned businesses and the dynamics of generational entrepreneurship. Today, he remains passionate about helping people learn, grow, and build lives that are fully integrated across faith, family, work, and community.

Acumen is an exclusive community of CEOs & Owners focused on helping you grow your top line, optimize your bottom line and enrich your storyline.

Our affinity-centric approach creates a community that’s both an advisory board and a peer mastermind. In combining the best of both, Acumen unifies professionals whose businesses are in similar seasons and have similar characteristics, like revenue, employees, locations, competency, and demographic similarities.

Our commitment...

We develop healthy, growing businesses.

NOT a hospice or lifeline for a sinking ship.

We work on CEO/Business Owner issues.

NOT networking or small group study.

We are humble and teachable.

NOT for the “know it all” or
the person who has “all the answers.”

We share values, virtues & beliefs.

NOT for people whose walk
and talk lack significant alignment.

Growth Catalyst, Wichita

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