Dr. Murphy has mentored many entrepreneurs and leaders. He remains an active mentor. Some of his current mentor-mentee relationships have lasted continuously for over 15 years. Mentees include very successful entrepreneurs and leaders across the US and in other countries as well as nascent startup entrepreneurs. High-impact mentoring involves valuable networking. Dr. Murphy is connected to a rich network of entrepreneurs and leaders.

He has experiences leading ventures, consulting to entrepreneurs, conceiving and publishing research articles and books. Along with his formal scholarly training in philosophy and his international experiences and cultural expertise (e.g., Mandarin Chinese language), these competencies make him an effective mentor.

A comprehensive and intense half-day or full-day session for individual leaders, entrepreneurs, and small teams in any organizational context, industry, and/or culture. This engagement is designed to transform complicated problems into opportunities, opening the way to ideas and solutions with entrepreneurial potential. Depending on focus, the engagement yields a plan for achieving entrepreneurial traction, executing radical venture turnarounds or pivots, and mitigating a range of challenges. This engagement includes an unstructured framing conversation to set parameters and focus. Dr. Murphy draws from over 20 years of experiences with many entrepreneurs around the world, advanced knowledge from the research literature, his own published work, and existing evaluation instruments. Fee: $15,000 - $25,000.

An approximate one-hour session or series of sessions that explicitly address and resolve a specific hard problem, question, or some other limiting factor an entrepreneur or leader is facing. This engagement instills powerful outside perspectives that draw from lessons of experience and advanced frameworks based on research of actual entrepreneurial cases. Experienced entrepreneurs often struggle to recognize and navigate uncertain environments and situations. This engagement will shift one's basic conceptual grounding in a paradigmatic way that will lead to breakouts from current limits. The engagement includes a screening conversation and questionnaire. Fee: $1,000 - $5,000

Students and alumni of Dr. Murphy's seminars regularly undertake outreach projects with entrepreneurial ventures. This engagement entails 4-5 member teams from one of Dr. Murphy's or his team's programmatic initiatives. Partners are individual entrepreneurs or teams facing obstacles to the performance of their ventures. Dr. Murphy has overseen hundreds of these engagements over the past two decades. His outreach practice has garnered national acclaim and awards. These engagements are strictly pro bono and focused first and foremost on student and alumni learning. No fees are collected. Partners in these engagements derive strong positive value for their businesses. Priority is given to entrepreneurs in the Greater Birmingham Alabama region but remote engagements are possible. Videos featuring some of these outreach projects can be viewed in the entrepreneurship section of this site. These engagements are popular and there is a waiting list. Fee: $0