Kevin Wheeler, Founder of Simplified COO, Featured Across Founder 100, Professional and Legend Magazines

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Kevin Wheeler, Founder of Simplified COO, Featured Across Founder 100, Professional and Legend Magazines on Building Businesses That Do Not Depend on One Person

New executive features examine leadership, operations and the structure that lets growing companies perform without relying on a single owner

SEDONA, Ariz., Oct. 19, 2026 /Joseph Bonner PR/ Kevin Wheeler, Founder of Simplified COO, is featured today in Founder 100 Magazine, Professional Magazine and Legend Magazine in a series of executive features on leadership, operations and building businesses that can perform without depending on one person.

In the Founder 100 Magazine executive feature, "Building a Business That Can Perform Without Depending on One Person," Wheeler explains how owners can recognize when a company has become too dependent on them, why his fractional model includes recruiting and training a permanent COO, and how operational structure supports both growth and an owner's well-being. Professional Magazine publishes his byline on operating discipline and a Q&A on delegation, structure and resilience. Legend Magazine profiles his leadership beyond the bottom line.

"The goal is a business that does not depend on any one person, and that includes me," said Wheeler. "Operational clarity is what gives an owner back the time and attention the business needs from them."

Wheeler founded Simplified COO in 2015, after 15 years with large dental organizations, to give small, visionary dental groups COO level guidance during a financially sensitive stage of growth. He leads operations, financials, marketing, recruiting, training and development for a fraction of a full time COO's compensation, then helps recruit and train a permanent COO once the organization is ready. His signature offering is case acceptance training, designed to create what he calls a "culture of yes." In one engagement described in Founder 100 Magazine, he restructured a large dental group's operational leadership, raising retention to 90 percent and helping lift top line revenue by 30 percent.

Read the Founder 100 Magazine feature: https://www.foundermag.org/post/building-a-business-that-can-perform-without-depending-on-one-person

About Kevin Wheeler and Simplified COO

Kevin Wheeler is a fractional COO, business advisor, author and speaker, and the Founder of Simplified COO, a Sedona, Arizona based firm that provides fractional operational leadership to dental practices, dental service organizations, and hospitality and restaurant businesses. Its services include fractional COO leadership, talent acquisition, organizational development, P&L management, in office operational management, growth budgeting, and merger and acquisition facilitation. Wheeler brings more than two decades in the dental service industry, including 12 years at Pacific Dental Services, where he served as a regional leader overseeing more than 50 offices, and a role as Integration and Acquisition Manager at Great Expressions Dental Centers. Teams under his leadership have earned more than 100 performance driven company awards. He is a co-author of How To Make Six Figures From Home: The Experts Guide (2024), contributed to Winner's Mindset: Peak Performance Strategies for Success, and is a contributor to Cultivating Community. He is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and volunteers with the American Red Cross Disaster Team. Learn more at https://kevinwheeler.org.

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