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Short bio · 50 words

Michael Ryan Betz is Founder & CEO, The Proper Group, a Cincinnati-based collective of approximately 100 vetted fractional and interim executives. He hosts In The Making with Michael R. Betz, authored In The Making, and builds consumer and local-business brands. His career spans corporate America, startup hypergrowth, and founding his company.

Medium bio · 149 words

Michael Ryan Betz is Founder & CEO, The Proper Group (TPG), a Cincinnati-based collective of approximately 100 vetted fractional and interim executives. TPG brings experienced executives into companies to work alongside their teams, embedding in the business instead of leaving behind a presentation deck.

Michael started in corporate America, then left to help a startup scale through hypergrowth. His path from marketer to operator to executive to founder informs his perspective on leadership and change.

He is the author of In The Making: Leading Through Change and Growing with Purpose, a purpose-driven memoir and leadership book. He also hosts In The Making with Michael R. Betz, featuring real, raw conversations about life's in-between moments, reinvention, and building something that matters. Through Michael Ryan Betz Ventures, he builds and invests in a portfolio of consumer and local-business brands, continuing the work of building companies and growing with intention through each new chapter.

Long bio

Michael Ryan Betz is Founder & CEO, The Proper Group (TPG), a Cincinnati-based collective of approximately 100 vetted fractional and interim executives. TPG brings experienced executives into companies to work alongside their teams, embedding in the business instead of leaving behind a presentation deck.

Michael started in corporate America, then left to help a startup scale through hypergrowth. His path from marketer to operator to executive to founder informs his perspective on leadership and change.

He is the author of In The Making: Leading Through Change and Growing with Purpose, a purpose-driven memoir and leadership book. He also hosts In The Making with Michael R. Betz, featuring real, raw conversations about life's in-between moments, reinvention, and building something that matters. Through Michael Ryan Betz Ventures, he builds and invests in a portfolio of consumer and local-business brands, continuing the work of building companies and growing with intention through each new chapter.

Michael’s career began in marketing and expanded into operations, executive leadership, and entrepreneurship. He left corporate America to help a startup scale through hypergrowth, then went on to build The Proper Group. TPG’s model puts vetted fractional and interim executives inside companies, working with teams rather than leaving them with a deck.

His speaking topics connect that operating experience with the challenges leaders face: leadership capacity, repeatable systems, the founder journey, and practical AI. In The Making tells the story of his progression through the stages of his career. Alongside TPG, he continues building and investing in consumer and local-business brands through Michael Ryan Betz Ventures.

Approved one-liner

Michael Ryan Betz is Founder & CEO, The Proper Group, author of In The Making, host of In The Making with Michael R. Betz, and a builder and investor in consumer and local-business brands.

How to introduce Michael

Please welcome Michael Ryan Betz. Michael is Founder & CEO, The Proper Group, a Cincinnati-based collective of approximately 100 vetted fractional and interim executives who embed with companies instead of leaving a deck. He started in corporate America, left to help a startup scale through hypergrowth, and went on to build companies of his own. He hosts In The Making with Michael R. Betz, is the author of In The Making, and also builds and invests in consumer and local-business brands through Michael Ryan Betz Ventures. Michael, welcome.