At Growth Blueprint Partners, we believe successful businesses are built through a combination of clear strategy, strong leadership, disciplined execution, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Our mission is to help business owners move beyond day-to-day challenges and create practical plans that drive sustainable growth. Drawing on decades of experience across hospitality, construction, moving and storage, restaurant operations, and entrepreneurial ventures, we partner with clients to strengthen operations, improve performance, and build businesses positioned for long-term success.
Together, Ana and Cliff bring business leadership experience across multiple industries. Their complementary strengths allow Growth Blueprint Partners to provide practical guidance grounded in real-world experience—not theory.
Trust is earned through honesty, integrity, and doing what we say we’ll do. Our recommendations will be based on what we believe is right for you and your business—not on what creates the most work or revenue for us.
Your business is unique, and so are your goals and challenges. Before offering solutions, we’ll listen, ask questions, and take the time to understand your business, your people, your priorities, and what you want to accomplish.
A great plan has little value if it never gets put into action. We’ll help you identify realistic priorities, develop practical solutions, and turn plans into action that moves your business forward and produces meaningful results.
There isn’t always one right way to solve a problem. We’ll stay curious, challenge assumptions when appropriate, and remain open to new ideas—including solutions that may be different from our own initial thinking.
We’ll work alongside you, not above you. We bring experience, ideas, resources, and an outside perspective while respecting the knowledge, experience, and hard work that have already gone into building your business.
With more than 35 years of executive leadership experience, Cliff has helped organizations strengthen operations, improve profitability, and achieve sustainable growth. His career spans leadership roles with global hospitality brands including Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt, where he led hotel openings, renovations, brand conversions, multi-property operations and regional management.
Beyond hospitality, Cliff has successfully applied his operational and growth expertise across the moving and storage industry, commercial construction and facility development, residential home building and remodeling, and restaurant ownership and management. This diverse background provides him with a unique perspective on the challenges facing both entrepreneurial and established businesses.
Ana brings more than 25 years of business leadership experience with business administration expertise spanning sales, operations, human resources, payroll, financial, compliance, and customer experience. A bilingual business professional fluent in both English and Spanish, she has supported organizations across a wide range of operational and administrative functions, helping businesses improve efficiency, strengthen team performance, and enhance client satisfaction.
Although Ana was born in Maryland and lived there for the first 3 years of her life, her roots are in Costa Rica. Much of her next 20 years were spent living internationally in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, and Germany, Ana developed a deep appreciation for diverse cultures, effective communication, and relationship-building. These experiences continue to shape her collaborative leadership style and her ability to connect with people from all backgrounds.
Family and faith are central to Ana and Cliff’s life. They have a blended family and are blessed to share life with 7 children and 11 grandchildren. They love to travel and since their children live in different cities, much of their travel is planned around their family’s home cities. Besides traveling, they enjoy visiting wineries and attending small venue live music events.
Cliff and Ana have learned to blend their Costa Rica and Czech cultures in most of their free time. Cliff has learned to love Gallo Pinto and Latin Tapas while Ana now enjoys authentic Kolaches and BBQ brisket. Ana is learning country dancing and Cliff is trying to avoid learning salsa. Cliff is learning the nuances of Costa Rican dialect while Ana’s vocabulary now includes words like “Ya’ll.” While Ana is enjoying a visit to the spa Cliff is off fishing and hunting. And their prayers are shared in both English and Spanish.
Life is Good! Pura Vida!
Establish a clear vision, strengthen your business plan and operating strategy, improve execution, and prepare your business for sustainable growth and scaling.
Build the right team, establish clear roles and expectations, strengthen hiring and onboarding, develop employees, and create the policies, procedures, and training that help your people succeed.
Improve financial visibility and decision-making through budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management, financial KPIs, expense control, resource management, and overall financial performance strategies.
Strengthen your sales and marketing efforts, improve the customer journey, identify unrealized revenue opportunities, evaluate pricing and competitive positioning, and build strategies that attract, convert, and retain customers.
Evaluate your technology and software systems to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, automate processes, integrate systems, strengthen the customer experience, and support future growth.
Help protect what you’ve built through stronger quality assurance, safety practices, operational processes, compliance awareness, risk management, and procedures designed to create consistency and reduce unnecessary exposure.
These areas are connected. A sales problem may actually be an operational problem. A staffing issue may be a process issue. Cash-flow challenges may require changes in pricing, sales, or resource management.
That’s why we start by looking at the business as a whole.
WE’LL HELP YOU IDENTIFY WHAT MATTERS MOST, WHAT TO TACKLE FIRST,
AND HOW TO TURN PRIORITIES INTO PRACTICAL ACTION.
These areas are connected. A sales problem may actually be an operational problem. A staffing issue may be a process issue. Cash-flow challenges may require changes in pricing, sales, or resource management.
That’s why we start by looking at the business as a whole.
WE’LL HELP YOU IDENTIFY WHAT MATTERS MOST, WHAT TO TACKLE FIRST,
AND HOW TO TURN PRIORITIES INTO PRACTICAL ACTION.
These areas are connected. A sales problem may actually be an operational problem. A staffing issue may be a process issue. Cash-flow challenges may require changes in pricing, sales, or resource management.
That’s why we start by looking at the business as a whole.
WE’LL HELP YOU IDENTIFY WHAT MATTERS MOST, WHAT TO TACKLE FIRST,
AND HOW TO TURN PRIORITIES INTO PRACTICAL ACTION.
