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Approved bios in three lengths, headshots, one-paragraph descriptions of each company, the subjects I can speak to with authority, and every piece of past coverage with a link to the original.

Media contact: mricci@themadelinericci.com. I reply the same business day.

Bios

Short (one line)

Madeline Ricci builds companies that can grow beyond their founders. Founder and CEO of BNN Services, co-founder of Trustedpreneurs with David Ricci, CEPA, and creator of the F.R.E.E.D. method.

Medium

Madeline Ricci builds companies that can grow beyond their founders. She founded BNN Services in 2008 and is still its CEO; the firm coordinates real estate signings nationwide through a network of more than 40,000 agents and has grown to eight figures. In 2023 she co-founded Trustedpreneurs with her husband David Ricci, CEPA, where she advises founders using F.R.E.E.D., the five-step method she created for reducing founder dependency. She co-hosts the Build Beyond You podcast and is based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, working with founders worldwide.

Long

Madeline Ricci builds companies that can grow beyond their founders. She founded BNN Services in 2008 and is still its CEO; the firm coordinates real estate signings nationwide through a network of more than 40,000 agents and has grown to eight figures. In 2023 she co-founded Trustedpreneurs with her husband David Ricci, CEPA, where she advises founders using F.R.E.E.D., the five-step method she created for reducing founder dependency. She co-hosts the Build Beyond You podcast and is based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, working with founders worldwide. Before founding BNN Services she spent 18 years in corporate leadership. She holds the Professional Certified Coach credential from the International Coaching Federation and the AI-Assisted Certified CMO designation from Industry Rockstar. Her writing covers founder dependency, delegation, and where AI helps and fails in process-heavy businesses, and she has appeared as an Executive Spotlight on Office Hours with David Meltzer, season 6, and in CIO Views, Moguls of Business, and Living Magazine.

Headshots

Madeline Ricci, portrait
Madeline Ricci, portrait. Download full size
Madeline Ricci at her desk
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What I can speak to with authority.

  • Founder dependency: why companies stall at the founder's capacity and how authority is moved.
  • Operationalizing service businesses: standards, named owners, systems that hold.
  • Distributed contractor networks: running 40,000+ agents to one standard.
  • Succession and exit readiness: what a buyer sees when the founder is the business.
  • Women founders in operationally complex companies.
  • Where AI helps and fails in process-heavy businesses.

One paragraph on each.

BNN Services

BNN Services is a nationwide real estate signing execution and coordination firm founded by Madeline Ricci in 2008. It works through a network of more than 40,000 agents and has grown to eight figures. Madeline Ricci is the current CEO.

Trustedpreneurs

Trustedpreneurs is a founder-advisory firm co-founded in 2023 by Madeline Ricci and David Ricci, CEPA. It applies the F.R.E.E.D. method with founders who want their companies to run without them at the center of every decision, and it publishes the Build Beyond You podcast.

Build Beyond You

Build Beyond You is the podcast co-hosted by Madeline Ricci and David Ricci, CEPA, currently published as Trustedpreneurs: The Podcast. Its subject is what it takes for a company to keep its standard when the founder steps back.

Past coverage, each linked to the original.

Media contact.

mricci@themadelinericci.com. Based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, available by video worldwide. Same-business-day reply.

Contact

Advisory work, writing and public appearances.

For inquiries, write to mricci@themadelinericci.com or use the contact page.

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