Trust-Made Guild hosted by nick richtsmeier
For Undivided Leaders Growing and Leading Expansive, Trust-forward Ventures
The Trust-Made Guild is for professionals selling knowledge and expertise who are interested in creating value and building a profitable business, but who aren't interested in selling out their values or their well-being to do it.
Join and get almost immediate access to:
- A Slack community of thinkers and like-minded professionals who want to collaborate, network, and learn together
- Monthly workshops on topics like Revenue Models, Notice Meetings, Trust-made Growth, and more
- Ask founder Nick Richtsmeier questions and get feedback from him and the group as you apply the Trust-Made Growth ecosystem to your venture
Benefits of Membership
Networking
Join a growing community of like-minded professionals and leaders who are committed to growing their ventures using the Trust-made Growth® ecosystem and becoming an Undivided Leader. Ask questions, get feedback, and be challenged to think, decide, and lead better.
First Access Invitations to Advanced Programs, Cohorts, and Coaching
Learn more about Nick's Trust-made Growth® ecosystem as outlined in The Damn Rules: How Vulnerability, Inefficiency, and Love Liberate Leaders from the Trustbroken Economy and be first to hear about exclusive events, programs, and coaching opportunities.
Monthly Guild-Only Events
The Guild hosts free classrooms—access to my Trust-Made Growth Wisdom School—giving you advanced tools to expand your leadership without selling your soul. The Wisdom School is my 25 years of leading and training leaders to deeply integrate all of their intelligences, embody their most honest contribution, and deliver that through economically and strategically advanced organizational acumen. The Wisdom School is the curricula that connects the inner life of the leader to the demonstrable expansion of their impact, even and especially within a hyper-capitalistic, Trustbroken economy.
"Nick's coaching has me completely rethinking the way I approach my business. Everything from how I think about my work to when and how I talk about the process, the prices, and the results." - H.H.
Upcoming Guild Events
October 15, 2026
Guild Class: Mastering the Notice Meeting
Join this month's Guild-only live and experiential event to learn how to invite, run, embody, and lead through a “notice meeting” one of the most powerful tools in the Trust-Made Growth® ecology. The Notice Meeting is a way of opening or re-opening a professional relationship that opens up trust, undermines stranger danger and resistance, and sets the standard for a relationship that expands and opens up new connections.
What is an Undivided Leader?
What Professionals Say About Nick's Impact on their Ability to Lead through Uncertainty
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I have come to the realization that the table that I should be worrying about and spending the most amount of time on, and where I have the most passion, isn’t the same table as it was two years ago. My table is now just my leadership team… and I can say with utmost conviction… I think that’s what the best thing for Trivium is… and I don’t know if George and I could have ever gotten to that place without these meetings.
Ron P.
Partner, Trivium Advisory
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Too many business strategists achieve their success by virtue of their charisma and personality, and their methodology is simply repackaged practices from leading books, business practices, etc. Nick brings to the table one of the sharpest minds I've ever encountered, and a way of understanding the world that is grounded in reality. His consulting and strategy advice comes from paying deep attention to the nuances of his client's industry and current context. He possesses an unparalleled ability to chart, understand, and demonstrate how trust can grow a venture.
Peter B.
Non-profit Leader
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Every session I’m able to take away something I can use right away, and there’s also a good amount of gentle-tough love that I know will help push me over the right speed bumps. Highly recommend.
DAn m.
Founder & Trust-Made Growth program graduate
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[Working with Nick] was the most meaningful thing… our relationship, over the last two years is probably top three, shaping our thoughts, helping us struggle with extracting from our brain what we wanted on paper and documented and memorialized, and how to think through those things, probably one of the more impactful things I’ve participated in over the last two years.
George G.
Partner, Trivium Advisory
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If you want a consultant to execute your game book, your game plan, probably not the right fit. We were seeking a thought leader, creative innovator, to partner with us, to collaborate on where we go next. So open mind and get ready to be challenged, because when you do that, it's actually really fun work.
Annie M.
President, Sequoia Financial
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Nick's coaching has me completely rethinking the way I approach my business. Everything from how I think about my work to when and how I talk about the process, the prices, and the results.