Scott Lackey

In 1982, at the age of 13, I embarked on my entrepreneurial journey selling rocks I found during my summer adventures. I went through the neighborhood, knocking on doors with my collection, each rock holding a unique story. While the venture only amounted to around $5 in sales, it taught me early lessons in resilience, initiative, and the gifts of adversity.

A decade later, I created my first invention called “The Wire Dog” during my time in Iraq and Kuwait (Desert Shield/Desert Storm), born out of necessity to expedite secure communications. This invention, though innovative, faced challenges in bringing it to market due to my lack of experience. A short five years later, I patented my second invention a Childhood Health Passport that grew into numerous ancillary products. Eventually, the products initial success led to investment funding of $3M. However, I faced the harsh reality of losing control over my creation when the investors took over the company six months later, Lighting Strike! A powerful, life altering series of lessons teaching me invaluable business dynamics and the gifts of failure.

Transitioning to retail advertising, I dove into another entrepreneurial endeavor, driven by innovative ideas, intellectual property, and partnerships working with globally recognized brands. Despite the financial rollercoaster, this experience laid the groundwork for my corporate stint as the VP of Sales and Marketing, working with the Fortune 1000 companies both public and private, where I honed my business skills further.

Returning to entrepreneurship, I acquired three business in 2008, despite the global economic crisis, I was still able to grow the business through additional acquisitions over 500% and then sell them. It was an extraordinary adventure in adversity trying to swim upstream to success and great content for my upcoming book. Remaining entrepreneurial, I began consulting with businesses experiencing their own lighting strike survival events helping, ownership, secured lenders and Boards navigate to a renewed stable operational business. On the other side of the spectrum, I helped startups build out their business plans, operational structure and raise capital while also supporting clients looking for an exit strategy. My self-imposed challenges and business experience have been my greatest training ground in resilience and discipline in adverse climates. My pursuit of adventure has been deeply transformational both internally and experientially. All of it, has set the stage for my journey ahead.

My first business began at thirteen years old with a pocket full of rocks and a conviction that possibility always lived just beyond the next doorbell. I sold what I could find during summer days and learned early that rejection, resilience, and risk would be lifelong companions. I did not know it then, but that boy was already being trained by failure.

Years later, I found myself in the desert during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. War reorders a man. In the middle of that chaos, I built my first real invention, the Wire Dog, out of necessity and restlessness. I believed it would change everything. It did, just not in the way I imagined. I had the idea. I did not yet have the wisdom to carry it.

Several years later, I patented my second invention, the Childhood Health Passport. It grew quickly. Investment followed. Three million dollars in funding arrived. Then control vanished. In six months, what I built was no longer mine. That was my first true lightning strike. The kind that does not just teach business. It teaches you about yourself.

I returned to business through retail advertising and corporate leadership, working with global brands and Fortune 1000 companies. Outwardly, it looked like progress. Inwardly, I was still learning what loss, ego, ambition, and certainty cost a man when they go unchecked.

In 2008, I stepped back into full ownership during the middle of the economic collapse. I acquired multiple businesses while the world was burning around them. Against the current, they grew. Years later, I sold them. From the outside, it looked like success. From the inside, it was another season of fire that stripped away illusions I did not yet know I was defending.

Over time, my work evolved into crisis consulting and leadership reconstruction. I entered companies that were drowning in debt, broken in trust, and fractured in identity. I also walked alongside startups trying to be born. What I discovered in both places was the same truth. Strategy alone does not save what identity has broken.

Every season of business, invention, loss, rebuilding, endurance, and faith became part of my training. Not for success. For formation.

Looking back now, none of it was wasted. Not the wins. Not the collapses. Not the storms. All of it became the ground where the Warrior learned endurance, the Poet learned vision, and the Shepherd learned how to guide without control.

That is the story behind the work I do today.

What as awesome experience in a lead role of a short film.

It’s hard to find people that boldly demonstrate Activation. Scott has a knack for using Faith, Wonder, and Action to illustrate what is possible.

His action, energy, and genuine enthusiasm helps people turn their dreams into reality.

–Club House Trailers

https://youtu.be/9JXD4Mjs9H8