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Randy H. Nelson

Coach | Speaker | Entrepreneur

Coach, speaker, and entrepreneur, Randy H. Nelson became a published author with Forbes Books in 2015 with his first book in the Decision Series, The Second Decision: The Qualified Entrepreneur. His next book, The Third Decision: The Intentional Entrepreneur, Building A Regret-Free Life Beyond Business was published in 2019, with The Fourth Decision in progress.


About Randy H. Nelson

Randy H. Nelson is a speaker, a coach, a best-selling author, a qualified entrepreneur and a former nuclear submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. He is the author of The Decision Series for Entrepreneurs and the #1 best seller, The Second Decision: the qualified entrepreneur. He co-founded and later sold two market leading, multi-million dollar companies—Orion International and NSTAR Global Services.

Nelson now runs Gold Dolphins, LLC, a coaching and consulting firm to help entrepreneurial leaders and CEOs become “qualified entrepreneurial leaders” and achieve their maximum potential. He has a B.S. in accounting from Miami University and was awarded the Admiral Sidney W. Souers Distinguished Alumni Award at his alma mater in 2011. Nelson now seeks to help entrepreneurs and CEOs everywhere through coaching, consulting, workshops, and public speaking.

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The Second Decision

The QUALIFIED Entrepreneur

Are you the right person to lead your company? You’re in the driver’s seat of a growing company that an entrepreneur―possibly you― made the First Decision to start. Now, imagine your Board of Directors asking you question after question about your business knowledge and decision-making process. Pass―you leave the meeting…

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The Fourth Decision

The Maximized Entrepreneur

The book you hold in your hands represents the zenith of the Decision Series for Entrepreneurs®, a now three-volume set of books written for those who are determined to top out as the successful and fulfilled architects of their own entrepreneurial lives. In this book, The Fourth Decision, we seek…

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